The United Nations said on Tuesday it was seeking to re-settle more than 450,000 Syrian refugees, some one-tenth of those now in neighboring countries, by the end of 2018, but conceded that it was battling widespread fear and politicization of the issue. A ministerial-level...

Hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen face life-threatening malnutrition and millions lack access to health care or clean water due to the year-old war there, the U.N. Children's Fund said on Tuesday. A UNICEF report also said all sides in the war had "exponentially...

A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian plane on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on Tuesday and forced it to land in Cyprus, Egyptian officials said. After the EgyptAir plane landed at Larnaca airport, the hijacker released all the people onboard...

A major fire broke out in a residential tower at Ajman in the United Arab Emirates late on Monday, the latest in a series of blazes in the country's high-rise buildings. Residents of the tower were evacuated and firefighters were trying to extinguish the blaze, local newspaper...

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Arab tribes have always been a winning card for any party wanted to control the Eastern region and Aljazeera in Syria. Russia is now and after the truce of cessation of hostilities tying to obtain the trust of Arab tribes, especially they are...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said he is planning a new law that will require refugees to learn German and integrate into society, or else lose their permanent right of residence. The initiative comes after voters punished Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives...

Turkey's Foreign Ministry summoned Germany's ambassador last week over a satirical broadcast by German television station NDR, Spiegel magazine's online edition reported on Monday. The ambassador, Martin Erdmann, was called to the ministry last Tuesday over the NDR broadcast on March 17 that...

Two people were shot dead and others injured on Monday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon after a dispute between rival political groups triggered bursts of gunfire, Reuters witnesses said. Abdallah Qablawi, a member of the mainstream Palestinian faction Fatah, was...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched a surprise attack on an army battalion near T-4 military airport in Homs province, killing at least 23 soldiers, activists and group's media wing said Monday. Aamaq, ISIS news agency, said fighters of the radical group have killed at least...

Fighting between Islamic State and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front spread from Syria into Lebanon's northern Bekaa Valley region on Monday, a security source and the state news agency said. Eighteen Nusra Front members were killed and six were taken prisoner during the clashes,...

Turkish security forces have killed 5,359 Kurdish militants since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) abandoned a two-year ceasefire in July, the state-run Anadolu news agency cited President Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Monday. Erdogan said 355 soldiers, police officers and village...

Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes battled Islamic State insurgents around Palmyra on Monday, trying to extend their gains after taking back control of a city whose ancient temples were dynamited by the ultra-radical militants. The loss of Palmyra on Sunday...

(SCMP)- Last week, representatives of Western-backed Syrian opposition delegation in Geneva told Russian state media that President Bashar Assad had a surprising new ally on the Syrian battlefield: militia units from North Korea. “Two North Korean units are there, which are Chalma-1 and...

  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday congratulated Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for retaking the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. "In a telephone conversation with Syrian president, Putin congratulated his counterpart on the liberation of the city of Palmyra from terrorists and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran has supplied the Syrian air force with tires for its Sukhoi 22 fleet,  after the Russian robust fighter bombers have been out of service in Syria and not any more available in Russia, military source told Zaman al-Wasl The Iranian shipment was delivered this month to...

Three heavy attack helicopters have left Moscow's Hmeymim airbase in Syria for Russia, Russian state TV channel Rossiya-24 reported on Monday. Two Mi-24 and one Mi-35 helicopters left the base onboard the heavy Antonov-124 transport airplane, along with some engineers and technical staff. This...

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Almost half of European jihadists joined Islamic State between 2013-2014 had returned to their countries, new leaked data obtained by Zaman al-Wasl shows. In addition to about 2000 registration forms of ISIS fighters, Zaman al-Wasl obtained last...

By Ali Eid; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Indirect battle between the Islamic State and the free Syrian Army (FSA) has broken out in Southern Syria front, Horan and Daraa. It cannot be called a traditional battle for both side, as the exact manpower, the strength and goals of...

Hundreds of migrants stranded at a makeshift Greek camp protested near the border with Macedonia on Sunday, demanding that the border be opened as they clung to hopes of making it into Europe despite new EU moves to send some refugees back. Around 50,000 migrants and refugees...

Iraqi Christians gathered in Baghdad this weekend to mark Easter but celebrations were tempered by fears Islamic State would eradicate their shrinking community, even as the army launched a U.S.-backed offensive to retake Mosul, their ancestral homeland. In mid-2014, Christians...