At least one person was killed and around 30 others injured when an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck northwest Pakistan -- including the capital, Islamabad -- on Saturday. The earthquake, with its epicenter in the Hindukush mountains of neighboring Afghanistan, struck...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel cannot afford to bail out Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) given the hard line Berlin has taken against state aid in other European nations and the risk of a political backlash at home, German media wrote on Saturday. The government denied a newspaper report on...

The Philippines’ government has launched a mobile application to provide updated information about its ongoing peace processes with communist and Moro Muslim rebels as part of efforts for greater transparency and inclusivity. GMA News reported Saturday that the Office of the Presidential...

The largest field hospital in opposition-held Aleppo city was destroyed Saturday by barrel bomb attacks carried out by Syrian regime forces, according to local civil defense sources.  A regime helicopter dropped barrel bombs on the hospital in al-Sakhour district, leaving it along with...

A United Arab Emirates military vessel was damaged in a strategic Red Sea shipping lane off the coast of Yemen on Saturday but there were no injuries to its crew, the UAE military said. Hundreds of Emirati soldiers in a Saudi-led coalition have been fighting Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis who...

Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its air campaign, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as the United States said diplomacy to halt the violence was "on life support" but not dead yet. Fighting continued to intensify a week into a new Russian-backed Syrian government...

Somali Islamist group al Shabaab bombed a restaurant frequented by members of the security forces in Mogadishu on Saturday, killing at least three people, officials and the group said. Police said a suicide car bomb rammed the Blue Sky restaurant in the capital, which is located near a...

Three PKK terrorists were “neutralized” in an operation in southeastern Hakkari province's Cukurca district on Friday, according to the army. The Turkish General Staff said in a statement on Saturday the terrorists were preparing an attack. In addition, three terrorists were killed by a...

Across south-east Europe, governments are throwing up barriers to keep out migrants arriving via Turkey, but numbers are still creeping up as rougher seas lead more to try this Balkan route rather than risk a Mediterranean crossing. Since July, Serbian border guards have stopped more than...

(Zaman al-Wasl) News is circulating that Russia is sending more fighter jets and rocket launchers to Hmemim airbase to use them in bombing Syrians in a continuation of its assault started exactly one year ago.  Reporting from as source within the Russian Ministry of Defense, Izvestia...

The United States and South Korea are destined to "pay the price" for their decision to deploy an advanced missile defense system which will inevitably prompt a "counter attack", China's top newspaper said on Saturday. Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high this year, beginning with...

Russian war planes struck rebel held areas north of Aleppo on Saturday as the army shelled the besieged old quarter in a major offensive, rebels and a monitoring group said. The air strikes focused on major supply lines into rebel-held areas - the Castello Road and Malah district - while...

California will allow companies more leeway in testing self-driving cars on public roads while restricting how the nascent technology is advertised under revised draft regulations released on Friday. In one of the biggest changes, the new regulations would allow for the absence of a driver...

(Zaman al-Wasl) On Friday night, the Syrian resistance bombed regime held locations close to al-Jib al-Ahmar and Beit Abu Resheh in al-Akrad Mountain in Latakia countryside with BM-21 rockets and mortar rockets killing an officer and wounding several members of the regime army.  The...

Turkey’s military said on Saturday it destroyed over 10 Daesh targets in northern Syria with artillery and tank fire. In a statement, the army said terrorist targets in the Uvaysiyah, Cubban and Tal-Atiyah regions were hit by dozens of rounds from howitzers, rocket launchers and armor....

(Zaman al-Wasl) After the failure of the Kerry-Lavrov special agreement to stop the fighting in Syria, Russia Today channel and other Russian media outlets recently started speaking about the possibility of Moscow using a limited nuclear strike in a bid to explore the potential extent of its...

The Somali government on Friday demanded an explanation from the United States on an airstrike, which Somalia said had killed 22 people. The attack allegedly struck the Galmudug administration army facility in the village of Jehdin in the Mudug region of north-central Somalia. A...

As Syrian regime forces advanced in Aleppo, backed by a deadly Russian air campaign, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) decried the "bloodbath," saying the battleground city's eastern rebel-held portion had become "a giant kill box". Syria's army was advancing on two Aleppo fronts, as talks...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Colonel Riad al-Asaad, one of the most prominent founders of the Free Syrian Army said the al-Assad regime and its allies Russian and the Iranian militias want to repeat the Homs scenario in the norther Syrian city of Aleppo which is living a reality of repeated civilian...

India and Pakistan exchanged fire across their de facto border in the Kashmir region on Saturday, in minor skirmishes that come at a time of heightened tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Army officers from both countries blamed each other for starting the firing, which took place...