Tunisia extended for another two months Tuesday a state of emergency imposed after a deadly November bus bombing claimed by the Islamic State group, the presidency said. President Beji Caid Essebsi has "decided on an extension of the state of emergency over all the territory" of the country...

  Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which killed at least 30 people, with police hunting a suspect who fled the air terminal. Police issued a wanted notice for a...

At least 26 people were killed and dozens wounded in a series of attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, described as a strike on the very heart of Europe. The bombings at Brussels airport and a metro station in the city that is home to the European Union and NATO are the latest in a...

A total of 530 people were killed in the first 23 days of a truce in Syria in areas covered by the cessation of hostilities agreement, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday. In areas not covered by the ceasefire, which came into force on Feb. 27, 1,279 people...

One dead, several wounded at Brussels airport: police to Belga news agency (Sky News)- There have been two loud explosions at a Brussels airport which is being evacuated amid reports of a fatality and several casualties. Video and images on social media showed smoke rising from an airport...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well informed sources has reported that the ministry of Education in the Syrian government intends to prevent “Save the Children” organization from using schools in the towm of Tal-Hamis in Eastern Countryside of Hasaka under claim of reopening...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels and Islamist factions, including Ahrar al-Sham, are mulling troops to fight ISIS-affiliated groups in the southern province of Daraa as clashes erupted early Sunday, sources said Tuesday. Al-Qeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, Ahrar al-Sham and Free Syrian Army...

An Iranian-born Turkish businessman has been arrested in Florida on charges that he and others conspired to conduct hundreds of millions of dollars in financial transactions for the Iranian government or other entities to evade U.S. sanctions. Reza Zarrab, 33, was charged in an...

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Desperately seeking new lives, migrants traveling to Europe often hear lies and rumors such as promises of an escort across a forbidden border or offers of steady work that can steer them in the wrong direction and even endanger their lives. Quashing...

Islamic Stae fighters on Monday have killed at least 26 Syrian regime soldiers on west of the ancient city Palmyra, a monitoring group said, after days of advances by regime forces backed by Syrian and Russian air cover. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting...

The fate of President Bashar al-Assad will play no part in talks to end the Syrian war, the head of the government's delegation said, leading the U.N. peace envoy to warn that lack of progress on the issue could threaten a fragile cessation of hostilities. Damascus delegate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The commander of al Qaeda's Syria branch in southern province of Daraa has been killed in the ongoing clashes with an Isis-affiliated group, local activists siad on Monday. Abu Salah al-Maslmeh, Nusra Front's commander in Daraa, was killed in clashes with Yarmouk Martyrs...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday hailed the recent EU-Turkey agreement, under which refugees reaching Greece from Turkey will be sent back, as an important one. Welcoming Greek-born EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos in Athens, Tsipras said, "We now have an uphill...

Turkish police arrested eight suspected Isis members Monday in the wake of Saturday’s suicide bombing in Istanbul, officials said. In Kilis province, five people, including two children, were arrested in Elbeyli, a town close to the Syrian border, the governor’s office said in a statement....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime’s helicopters on Monday have dropped eight barrel bombs on the ebel-held villages in the coastal Latakia province and in the western countryside of Idlib, local activists said. The barrel-bomb attacks targeted villages of al-Najiya and Mara’nd, turning many...

An Iranian-backed militia said on Monday it said it would treat U.S. Marines deployed in Iraq to fight Islamic State as forces of occupation and "deal" with the foreign troops. Washington said on Sunday a detachment of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit was in Iraq, bolstering...

Turkish newspapers carried front-page pictures on Monday of three more men believed to be planning suicide bomb attacks for ISIS, after a suspected member of the radical militant group killed three Israelis and an Iranian in Istanbul. Sunday's attack on Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian...

Reporting by Elaph Qaddah; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Health Ministry of the Syrian regime has launched on March 13, a new polio vaccination campaign for all children under five across the country. The campaign has been financially and logistically supported by the World...

Russia on Monday warned the United States that it will start responding to ceasefire violations in Syria unilaterally starting on Tuesday if Washington refuses to coordinate rules of engagement against the violators. The Russian military has accused the US of dragging its feet on responding to...

Thousands of Kurds gathered for the Newroz spring festival in Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey on Monday under tight security after months of fighting between security forces and Kurdish separatists, and a series of bombings in Istanbul and Ankara. The armed Kurdistan Workers'...