At least 26 people were killed and scores injured Thursday by a bomb attack claimed by Daesh on a refugee camp near the Turkish border, local sources told Anadolu Agency. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity due to safety concerns, said that the attack on the Atma refugee camp in...

A bomb blast at a Syria-Turkey border crossing killed at least 25 Turkish-backed rebel fighters and wounded dozens more on Thursday, witnesses and a monitoring group reported. The blast took place on the Syrian side of the Atmeh crossing, west of Aleppo. A photo sent by a witness in the...

Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, Pentagon officials said. Although the number of disappearances is relatively small -- some 2,200 Afghan troops...

A total of five PKK terrorists were killed and 18 PKK targets destroyed in Turkey's east and southeast and northern Iraq Wednesday by the Turkish Armed Forces, according to military sources. According to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the...

Bank Hapoalim (POLI.TA), Israel's largest bank, said on Thursday it would make a further provision estimated at $70 million for settling a U.S. tax evasion investigation which could have "a significant impact" on its third-quarter results. The $70 million would be in addition to $50 million...

Confronted by Russia in Syria, Ukraine and cyberspace, the next U.S. president will be the fourth to face Vladimir Putin and the challenge of deterring a Kremlin often more willing than the White House to take risk and project power. Over the last four years, the Russian president has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In one of Homs’s “secure” neighborhoods where there are no “armed men” nor “terrorists and extremists” according to regime; where there is only the authority of the regime and its institutions, tens of students are jammed in classrooms that some of them take seats on the floor....

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Eqtsad)- Young man Rami Azizi has devoted himself for years to help Syrian students in Egypt in registration and application process and help them through obstacles with infinite enthusiasm and devotion. He devoted himself for the service of his fellow youth to...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the situation in Syria in a telephone call on Wednesday, just two days after Washington said it was breaking off bilateral diplomacy with Moscow on the Syrian war. Lavrov and Kerry also talked about the...

The Iraqi parliament’s rejection of Turkey’s military presence in the country is not a reflection of the feelings of ordinary Iraqis, the Turkish foreign minister said Wednesday. Speaking at a news conference in Ankara, Mevlut Cavusoglu said the decision against the Turkish base at Bashiqa...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights, in new report, said the regime and Russian air forces have committed 46 massacres out of 49 in September. The report identified the massacre as any event leads to killing 5 civilians in the same time. Accordingly, the regime committed 26...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has warned Turkey that it risks triggering a regional war by keeping troops in Iraq, as each summoned the other's ambassador in a growing row. Relations between the two regional powers are already broadly strained by the Syrian civil war and the rise of...

Daesh leaders are leaving Mosul as Iraqi forces prepare to take the city held by the militant group since 2014, a Canadian general said Wednesday. Comments by Brig. Gen. Dave Anderson, who heads the U.S.-led coalition’s train-and-equip program for Iraqi and Kurdish peshmerga forces, came...

Greek airports will shut down from Sunday, the air traffic controllers’ union said Wednesday as it announced a four-day strike, local media reported. The consecutive 24-hour strikes were declared in response to a bill introduced late Tuesday night in parliament on the restructuring of the...

Syria's army will reduce air strikes and shelling on rebel-held eastern Aleppo on humanitarian grounds, it said on Wednesday, after mounting international criticism of it and Russia. Last month, the army - backed by Shi'ite militias from Lebanon and Iraq, and by Russian jets - launched a new...

France is to launch a new push for United Nations backing for a ceasefire in Syria that would allow aid into the city of Aleppo after some of the heaviest bombing of the war. As diplomatic efforts resumed, a Syrian military source said army commanders had decided to scale back air strikes...

(Zaman AL Wasl)- Many members of regime forces and supporting militias were killed in the attack they launched at the axis of Tofahiya in Latakia where the Syrian resistance stopped their advance. Regime forces have Wednesday tried to advance in the area of Tifahiya in the countryside of...

The Taliban should look at the example of a deal between the Afghan government and militant commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as a path to an "honorable" peace in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday. Kerry told an international conference in Brussels to raise funds...

Turkey pledged $150 million towards Afghanistan’s future on Wednesday. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made the announcement at a Brussels conference on Afghanistan. “Turkey will continue supporting the Afghan government within the security and development agenda,” he said in a speech to...

(MSF)- Abu Khalid is an orthopedic surgeon and director of a hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in besieged eastern Aleppo. He left the city on August 21, believing that the siege was over. But when restarted just days later, he found himself unable to...