Peshmerga forces will not allow members of the PKK terrorist group to remain in Iraq’s northern Sinjar district west of Daesh-held Mosul, Qasim Darbo, an Ezidi peshmerga leader told Anadolu Agency on Friday. Referring to the group’s continued presence in Sinjar, Darbo asserted: "If PKK...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Cotton production has dramatically fell in the northeastern Hasaka province, while production almost disappeared in Eastern and Southern of Hasaka, due to high cost of culturing it and securing needed requirements, besides difficulties in selling it at acceptable prices to...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) backed by the Turkish army has formed a security corridor of 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) in northern Syria through Operation Euphrates Shield, military sources said Friday. According to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to...

Retaking Iraq’s Daesh-held city of Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group will be much easier if the campaign is coordinated between Baghdad and Ankara, a former Iraqi army chief-of-staff told Anadolu Agency on Friday. According to Babaker Zebari, Iraq-Turkey relations should be "reconsidered"...

Hurricane Matthew, carrying winds of 120 miles per hour (195 kph), lashed central Florida on Friday, hugging the Atlantic coast as it moved north and threatened more destruction after killing more than 500 people and leaving thousands homeless in Haiti. Matthew, the first major hurricane...

In a sign of growing frustration with Russia and Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday called for a war crimes investigation into the allies as they continue an intense air campaign on rebels in Aleppo. He said Syrian forces hit another hospital in Syria's pre-war largest city...

 A German court has convicted four men who procured tens of thousands of euros (dollars) worth of supplies for the ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham group in Syria of supporting a 'terrorist organization'. Lebanese citizen Kassem El-R., 33, was sentenced to 3 ½ years in prison Thursday by...

Nearly a month after elections, Croatia’s ruling conservatives and the center-right MOST alliance reached an agreement Friday for a coalition government with rotating leadership in Parliament. "We have decided for the Croatian Parliament to be managed in rotation. In this context, it will be...

Two bombs targeting a train in the restive western Pakistani province of Baluchistan killed at least four people on Friday and wounded 16, officials said. The bombs hit the Jaffer Express which runs between the provincial capital, Quetta, and Rawalpindi, next to the capital, Islamabad, said...

Turkish EU Minister Omer Celik said Friday that while ridding the border area of Daesh, Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield has also been securing Europe’s and NATO’s borders as well. Speaking at a joint press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni in Ankara, Celik said...

The UN has warned again that the expected military offensive in Iraq's Mosul city may create a massive displacement of people. Speaking at a press conference at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Friday, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said: "If there is a...

Drone footage of Aleppo -- the city that has been at the scene of fierce fighting during Syria’s five-year civil war -- was released Friday and showed the intense devastation suffered by its residents. The Anadolu Agency video of the war-torn city -- once Syria’s most populous with 2.3...

Almost 13 thousand Barrel Bombs since the Russian Intervention (Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 658 barrel bombs were dropped from the regime’s helicopters, resulted in killing 71 civilians including 15 children and 9 women in September 2016. The UK- based Syrian Network of Human Rights (SNHR) has...

President Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of 102 prisoners, adding to a tally that already surpassed the previous 11 presidents combined. Like those that preceded it, the latest tranche is comprised mainly of drug offenders. White House Counsel Neil Eggleston wrote in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Opposition Interim's Government has demanded the United Nations to dismiss its special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, due to his big professional and political mistakes in justifying the Russian and regime’s aggression on the northern city of Aleppo when he...

Rebels holed up in Aleppo can leave with their families if they lay down their arms, President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday, vowing to press on with the assault on Syria's largest city and recapture full control of the country. The offer of amnesty follows two weeks of the heaviest...

The Turkish army hit at least 49 Daesh targets in northern Syria early Friday as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield, military said. In a statement, the Turkish Armed Forces said 49 Daesh targets had been hit with 153 Firtina (storm) howitzer fire and 116 rounds of multiple rocket...

A U.N. human rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to end "severe" discrimination against girls and to repeal laws that allow the stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children. The Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned the Saudi-led coalition's air strikes in...

A total of 45 Afghan troops have disappeared from training camps in the U.S. in less than two years, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. “Eight Afghan students training at U.S. facilities were reported Absent Without Leave (AWOL) in September,” Adam Stump, a Defense Department spokesman told...

The implementation of a landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers is still fragile, the head of the U.N. agency that polices Iran's side of the deal has said, warning that small mistakes could have grave consequences. Iran and six major powers, including the United States,...