(Zaman Al Wasl)- Asayish militia, the armed wing of Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), killed a young man on Monday in a village near the Iraqi-Syrian borders in Hasaka countryside while a PYD armed group arrested several young men who were participating in a protest against the party in...

Grab, the biggest rival to ride-sharing service Uber Technologies Inc in Southeast Asia, has raised $750 million in a funding round, turning up the heat on the U.S. firm now seeking to expand in the region after exiting China. The successful cash-injection just a month after Indonesian peer...

(The Sports Xchange) - Highlights from Major League Baseball games on Monday: Dodgers 2, Giants 1 Adrian Gonzalez hit a walk-off double in the ninth inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers (85-65) padded their lead in the National League West to...

A Palestinian teen was shot dead by Israeli forces Tuesday in the latest spate of alleged knife attacks in Israel-occupied West Bank. The Israeli military said in a statement the alleged assailant attempted to stab a soldier at a checkpoint near the town of Bani Naim, in the Hebron district...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Islamic State on Monday downed a regime mig-21 in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, killing its pilot, local activists said. Notorious Pilot General Ali Hamze, who was born in Misyaf town in Hama countryside, was shot down with his warplane in al-Thardeh mountain. A...

Syrian government troops, supported by Russian air forces, repelled an offensive by militants on the northern fringes of Syria's largest city of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing 40 attackers, RIA news agency quoted Russia's Defence Ministry as saying. On Monday, the Syrian military declared a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city said their leave will be under the U.N. umbrella, refusing regime demands on Monday to evacuate the key district in the central city under the Red Crescent cover, local negotiation committee said. The planned evacuation of...

A refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos was evacuated late on Monday after fires broke out. An ex-volunteer at the facility in contact with current staff on the Aegean island confirmed to Anadolu Agency that Moria camp had also witnessed clashes between groups of refugees and migrants....

Two children were wounded in a PKK terror attack in eastern Turkey late Monday. PKK terrorists attacked a police building in the Ipekyolu district of Van province with rockets and gunfire, according to security sources who spoke on condition of anonymity. The windows of a nearby house...

The Turkish military said on Monday Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters had taken control of two residential areas from Daesh. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said the Sandarah and Kardish areas, located in Syria's Al-Rai town, were taken as part of Operation Euphrates Shield. This...

 An aid convoy was hit in Aleppo province, the United Nations said on Monday, as the Syrian military declared that a week-long ceasefire was over. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the attacks were carried out by either Syrian or Russian aircraft, adding that...

Switzerland and the European Commission said on Monday they had come closer to agreeing a deal on Swiss efforts to curb immigration while preserving its access to the EU single market, and scheduled further talks next month. Brussels insists on free movement of people as a condition for...

(The Sports Xchange) - In a blue New York Mets' batting practice jersey stitched with a No. 15 on the back, Tim Tebow began his bid to make it in professional baseball on Monday at Tradition Field at Port St. Lucie, Fla. "It was a lot of fun, it was great to be a on a team, go through a...

Four women land rights activists were sentenced to six months in prison by a court in Cambodia on Monday for insulting and obstructing public officials during a 2011 violent land rights protest. Seizure of land for development is a major cause of protests in Cambodia and other countries in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 civilians have been killed and dozens wounded in regime air strikes on northern Aleppo province on Monday, few hours since the Bashar al-Assad military announced the collapse of U.S.-Russia brokered ceasefire truce . The regime’s warplanes hit an aid convoy...

Unidentified gunmen in southern Libya on Monday abducted two Italian nationals and a Canadian working for an Italian airport maintenance company, according to a local official. "The abducted individuals were doing maintenance on the city’s airport," Qomani Mohamed Saleh, mayor of Libya’s...

The Saudi authorities have thwarted a plan by the Daesh terrorist group to carry out attacks in different parts of the country, the Saudi Interior Ministry announced Monday. The official Saudi Press Agency quoted Ministry Spokesman Mansour al-Turki as saying that authorities had arrested...

The International Committee of the Red Cross says it has delivered humanitarian aid to the besieged town of Talbiseh in Syria's central Homs province. It says a joint convoy of 45 ICRC, Syrian Arab Red Crescent and U.N. trucks delivered nearly 17,000 food parcels as well as 1,000 bulk food...

Reporting by Manar Abdulrazeq (Eqtsad)- The price of a barrel of diesel exceeded SYP 20,000 in neighbourhoods of Eastern Aleppo, while many kinds of vegetables disappeared as well as the meat, especially chicken, after 27 days of severe siege imposed on Eastern part of Aleppo by the Syrian...

Syrian regime military on Monday declared the seven-day initial period for a ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia over, without indicating whether the truce would be reinstated. It said in a statement that "terrorist groups", a term the Syrian government uses to refer to all...