(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition forces killed 3 top regime commanders in Hama province, activists said. Resistance factions push towards the regime-held city by capturing a group of towns and villages adjacent to it inflicting major loss in regime ranks which failed to thwart the attacks....

World shares saw their biggest jump in over a month on Monday and the dollar slipped, after weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs figures gave investors another excuse to push back Federal Reserve interest rate rise expectations. European shares touched a four-month high led by mining and oil firms...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued an angry rebuke to "blasphemous" regional rival Saudi Arabia on Monday, calling on the Muslim world to question its management of Islam's holiest sites. "Because of Saudi rulers' oppressive behaviour towards God's guests, the world of...

At least 13 people were killed and scores injured in two car bombings in regime-held areas in Syria on Monday, according to local media.  A car-bomb hit the Arzouna bridge area at the entrance to the north-western coastal city of Tartous, killing 11 people and injuring 45 others, the...

HAKKARI, Turkey  Two soldiers were martyred in fresh clashes with the PKK terrorist organization in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, the city governorship said on Monday. Gendarmerie special forces supported by the army's air and land forces along with artillery units had been...

ANKARA Turkey’s annual consumer price inflation rate has declined in August, official data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) revealed on Monday. The annual inflation rate was 8.05 percent in August compared to 8.79 percent in July, significantly better than median...

Atlantic storm Hermine, which has killed two people, lurked off the middle of the U.S. East Coast late on Sunday while threatening to regain hurricane strength, after having spared the region the brunt of its wind, rain and tidal surge. Forecasters warned swimmers and boaters to avoid the...

A series of bomb blasts targeted government-held areas of Syria on Monday, killing at least five people, state media in Damascus said. At least five people were killed on Monday in a double bombing in Syria's government-held Tartus province, state television said. "Two terrorist blasts on...

Five explosions hit government-controlled areas and a city held by a Kurdish militia in Syria on Monday morning, killing several people, state media and a monitor said. It was not immediately clear if there was any link between the blasts reported in the state-held cities of Tartous and...

(Reuters) - Top seed Novak Djokovic has been starved of competitive action at the U.S. Open but on Sunday the world number one feasted on unseeded Briton Kyle Edmund in a 6-2 6-1 6-4 romp that put him into the quarter-finals. Djokovic had a second-round walkover as Czech Jiri...

(Reuters) - North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, as the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies held a summit in China, the North's main diplomatic ally. The missiles were fired from a region south of...

 Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Sunday defended Hillary Clinton against criticism over her handling of classified information as secretary of state, saying she was unaware of the sensitivity of some information she exchanged over email because it had been "improperly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Islam Army group on Sunday launched a counter attack on the Islamic State in the Eastern Qalmoun region, east of the capital, killing at least 18 militants, ElDorar AlShamia jihadi news site and activists said. Meanwhile, the Jaish al-Islam and allied...

JERUSALEM  Palestinians activists have called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to release six hunger-striking prisoners, who have been held for months in Palestinian prisons without charge.  Protesters gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, according to...

Syrian government forces and their allies recaptured areas in southwestern Aleppo on Sunday that rebels had seized last month and laid siege to the city's opposition-held eastern sector for a second time since July, rebels and monitors said. The areas recaptured, after weeks of bombardment...

(Reuters) - Chris Froome's hopes of becoming the first rider in 38 years to win the Tour de France and Tour of Spain in the same year were hit by a terrible display in stage 15 on Sunday when he finished two minutes 40 seconds adrift of winner Gianluca Brambilla. Colombian Nairo Quintana...

Turkish-backed rebels on Sunday cleared Islamic State fighters from Turkey's Syrian border, securing an area in northern Syria and making a substantial advance in an incursion by Turkish forces, state media reported, making The rebels, mainly Syrian Arabs and Turkmen fighting under the loose...

TRIPOLI  At least 11 soldiers were killed as Libyan government forces pushed deep into the last Daesh stronghold in the northern Sirte city.  Akram Kleo, a spokesman for the Musrata hospital, said 11 corpses were admitted to the hospital on Saturday.  “More than 30...

Syrian regime troops on Sunday seized a military academy south of Aleppo city, once again encircling the rebel-held districts in the east and placing them under siege, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said government forces backed by Syrian and...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis on Sunday, fast-tracked to canonization just 19 years after her death. Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed St. Peter's Square at the Vatican for...