The United States does not believe it is worthwhile for Secretary of State John Kerry to meet now with Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, about a ceasefire in Syria, the State Department said on Thursday. "It's our belief that ... the remaining issues are at a technical level that need...

(Eqtsad)- Many cases of paralysis, weakness, numbness and tiredness from different ages attended hospitals and health centres in Latakia, for some reason people considered them all as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, that name has become one of the most frightening word. Many users and opportunists took...

In a rare show of public activity on Thursday, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika -- who since 2013 has suffered from the effects of a blood clot in the brain -- inaugurated a conference center west of capital Algiers, according to Algerian state television. "President Bouteflika on...

Syria's army and its allies have regained an important Aleppo district lost to rebels last month, state media and a war monitor said on Thursday, and were pressing an offensive south of the city to further squeeze the insurgents. If sustained, the advance in Ramousah would reverse nearly all...

The top military commander of the militant Jabhat Fateh al Sham, a former al Qaeda offshoot in Syria, was killed in an aerial raid that targeted a meeting of the group's leaders, two rebel sources said on Thursday. They said the commander, whose alias is Abu Omar Saraqeb, was killed at a...

At least five people were killed and 12 wounded in an Islamic State attack in the Syrian border town of Jarablus, Turkish security and hospital sources said on Thursday, only a day after civilians started returning to their homes in the town. Wounded people were taken to hospitals in Turkey's...

The European Union on Thursday announced it was contracting 348 million euros ($393 mln) to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) for humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey, part of the bloc's migration cooperation with Ankara. The money comes as part of a 3 billion euro support for...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed "in principle" to meet in Moscow, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry Thursday. "Netanyahu and Abbas have agreed in principle to meet in Moscow,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a weekly...

Turkey has agreed to allow German lawmakers to visit soldiers stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey in October, signaling some progress in easing strains between the two NATO allies, Germany's Foreign Minister said on Thursday. Turkey had banned German lawmakers from visiting the base in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities found a “dangerous” recipe to prepare highly effective poisons which can be used in wide spread operations in the house of Jihadists who previously fought in the ranks of al-Nusra Front according to Turkish media reports. The recipe depends on biological...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Four people have been killed and tens injured including civil defense officers by Russian strikes on Thursday in the town of Khan Shaykhoun in Idlib province, local sources reported. Idlib Media Center said Russia's warplanes had bombed the city with cluster bombs...

Bomb attacks in Thailand's south have injured two police officers and a villager two days after the killing of a four-year-old girl and her father provoked domestic and international indignation. The incidents were the latest in a series of violent incidents in the three majority Muslim...

Turkey jailed 16 businessmen pending trial on Thursday and issued arrest warrants for dozens of military officers over alleged links to the U.S.-based cleric blamed by Ankara for July's attempted coup, Turkish media said. Authorities have already detained tens of thousands of people over...

Operations in Mosul and Raqqa are vitally important if Iraq and Syria are to be cleansed of Daesh, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday. Following a meeting in London with the High Negotiations Committee, which represents Syrian opposition groups, Cavusoglu told Turkish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Russian jets and Shi'ite fighters have seized new ground in the battleground city of Aleppo after fierce fighting with the opposition forces. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said rebels have withdrawn from Gas planet and al-Dabbaghat area in the...

A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo caused dozens of cases of suffocation on Tuesday, rescue workers and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue workers' organization that operates in rebel-held areas, said...

Asian shares held within one-year peaks on Thursday as Chinese trade data topped forecasts and imports recorded their first annual rise since late 2014, a promising sign for global demand that gave the Australia dollar a lift. Beijing reported imports rose 1.5 percent in August from a year...

Swiss third seed Stan Wawrinka outlasted tiring former champion Juan Martin del Potro in four sets to advance to the semi-finals of the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Twice grand slam winner Wawrinka ended the rousing comeback effort by the Argentine at Flushing Meadows with a 7-6(5) 4-6 6-3 6-2...

Presidential candidates of the two major parties, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, stepped on the same stage to answer questions from American military veterans during a unique televised forum that left a lot to be desired on specifics. Confronted by a rapid-fire round of questions from...

Kenyan workers involved in supplying khat were left wondering if their livelihood would ever return Thursday following Somalia’s sudden and unexplained ban on the mildly narcotic plant. The farmers, packers, transporters and wholesalers of khat, known as miraa in Kenya, were shocked Monday...