Law enforcers have reiterated their call for Indonesia’s anti-terror laws to be strengthened, warning of the threat posed by nationals who joined Daesh in Syria. The chief of the National Counter Terrorism Agency said Tuesday that around 500 Indonesians had traveled to Syria, and expressed...

Deputy mayor of Israel's Jerusalem municipality, Meir Turjeman, has announced the suspension of all construction activity in Arab parts of the city, Israeli Radio reported. The move, announced Monday night, came in response to a Sunday shooting attack in East Jerusalem in which two Israelis...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people, mostly children, were killed by explosion hit a school in the southern Syrian city of Daraa on Tuesday, activists and local monitoring group said. Opposition factions denied any responsibility for the attach as regime-run news agency reported. SANA said...

The Iraqi army on Tuesday recaptured Hit Island in the western Anbar province from the Daesh terrorist group, according to military sources. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Major-General Qassem al-Mohammadi, an Iraqi army officer, said troops had "totally liberated" Hit Island, which lies in the...

Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Tuesday after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Air strikes mostly hit the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood, Zakaria Malhifji of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Tuesday after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. Air strikes mostly hit the Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood, Zakaria...

Outraged by Russia's intensified air strikes on rebels in Syria, the European Union is now less likely to ease sanctions on Moscow over Ukraine, diplomats say, and some in the bloc are raising the prospect of more punitive steps against the Kremlin. While the EU says conflicts in Syria and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) militia has detained hundreds of displaced people who live in a random camp in al-Shadadi town in Hasaka province, activists said Tuesday. SDF has conditioned that the displaced people who fled Deir ez-Zor province to bring a...

Chicago's cash-strapped schools and its teachers' union agreed to a contract proposal late on Monday, union and city officials said, averting a strike set for Tuesday in the third largest U.S. public school system. The four-year agreement, which the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) will...

Suspected Kurdish militants shot and killed an official in Turkey's ruling AK Party late on Monday, authorities said, the second shooting of a politician in as many days in the strife-hit southeast. Deryan Aktert, who headed the party's branch in Diyarbakir's Dicle district, was attacked in...

Samsung Electronics' (005930.KS) worst-ever recall could cost the company as much as $17 billion after it halted sales of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 for a second time, spelling an almost certain end for the ill-fated premium model. Samsung announced the recall of 2.5 million Note 7s in early...

The death toll from the collapse of four residential buildings in an industrial district of the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang has risen to 22. State news agency Xinhua reported that rescuers pulled six survivors from the rubble by the time their search was wrapped up at around 1 a.m....

Turkey's state-run news agency says a local official from the ruling party has been killed in an attack in a mainly Kurdish town in southeast Turkey. Anadolu Agency said Tuesday authorities believe the attack against Deryan Aktert, the ruling party's top official in the town of Dicle, was the...

A Thai court jailed a firebrand leader of the "red shirt" opposition group on Tuesday, ruling that he had violated bail conditions by using "harsh words against others" while talking politics on TV. Jatuporn Prompan is a key leader of the red shirts loyal to ousted former Prime Minister...

The Turkish army hit at least 91 Daesh targets in northern Syria on Monday as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield, according to the military. In a statement issued Tuesday, the Turkish Armed Forces said 91 Daesh targets had been hit by Firtina (storm) howitzer and tank fire,...

Libyan pro-government forces are advancing into the last area controlled by Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, surrounding the militants after a five-month campaign backed by U.S. air strikes, military officials say. At least eight pro-government fighters were killed over the...

Islamic State on Monday confirmed the death of its propaganda chief, whom the Pentagon said was killed in a U.S.-led air strike in Syria's Raqqa province last month. An statement posted online by the militant group paid tribute to Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, also known as Abu Mohammed...

The head of Germany's intelligence agency (BfV) said a Syrian suspect arrested on Monday was building a bomb and probably planned to attack one of the airports in Berlin. Hans-Georg Maassen told public broadcaster ARD that intelligence leads had suggested in early September that militant...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the war in Syria with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday, including Turkey's military operations there and the need to cooperate on aid to Aleppo. At a joint news conference after a meeting in Istanbul, Erdogan and Putin said they both agreed on the...

Paul Ryan, the top Republican in the U.S. Congress, said on Monday he would not defend Donald Trump nor campaign with him, plunging the Republican candidate's presidential bid deeper into crisis over his sexually aggressive remarks about women. Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives,...