Russia's sports minister Tuesday said he hoped to see tennis star Maria Sharapova back on court after she failed a dope test at the Australian Open. "I feel sorry for Masha. I hope that we will see her back on court and we are prepared to support her," minister Vitaly Mutko told state-run TASS...

Iran conducted multiple ballistic missile tests Tuesday in an exercise to demonstrate "deterrent power," a move that comes in defiance of U.S. sanctions imposed over its missile program in January. The announcement by the official IRNA news agency said the tests showed the country's "all-out...

A European Union draft deal with Turkey to stop migrants reaching Greece introduces a harder edge of coercion to what critics have derided as a hitherto feeble EU response to a crisis tearing it apart. Just last week, some saw European Council President Donald Tusk running short...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham Islamist group condemned statement issued Tuesday the fierce break up of Monday's anti-regime demonstration in Idlib city and arresting prominent media activists. The group said its fighters had not participated in the repression of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda Syria's branch, the Nusra Front, harshly broke up an ant-regime demonstration in northern Idlib city and arrested five media activists as the revolution's fifth anniversary nears, activists said on Monday. Fighters of the Nusra-led Army of conquest, or Fatah Army,...

(The Daily Mail)- MI6 and British police are investigating alleged attacks on civilians by Russian war planes in Syria – with a view to prosecuting President Vladimir Putin for war crimes, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Scotland Yard detectives have flown to Lebanon to monitor air...

Syria's opposition will decide this week whether to attend forthcoming peace talks in Geneva and has complained to the United Nations that Russian air strikes have carried on despite a truce, opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said on Monday. Syrian government forces, backed by...

Dozens of Islamist fighters stormed through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan near the Libyan border on Monday attacking army and police posts in a raid that killed at least 50 people, including civilians, the government and residents said. Local television broadcast images of...

The U.S. military carried out a drone strike over the weekend targeting a training camp run by Somali Islamist group al Shabaab about 120 miles north of capital Mogadishu over the weekend, killing more than 150 fighters, the Pentagon said on Monday. "It was a successful strike,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 people killed on Monday in Syrian regime air strikes on market place in Idlib province, local activists said. Regime warplanes have conducted three raids on the main marketplace in Abu al-Duhur town in the eastern countryside of Idlib, 30 miles (45 km) south of...

 (The Daily Mail)- Vladimir Putin is stirring up the migrant crisis in a bid to whip up anger in Germany and get Angela Merkel ousted from power, a senior strategist has claimed. Russia is using an 'information war' to spark dissent against the German leader who has been an advocate of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Monday criticized the European Union for a four-month delay in disbursing a promised 3 billion euro fund for refugees agreed under a November deal. "It's been four months. They are yet to deliver," Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara, as Prime Minister...

Turkey's state-run news agency says security forces have arrested two suspected ISIS militants and seized plastic explosives and a suicide vest. Anadolu Agency says Monday that the two were apprehended at a border crossing, when authorities noticed that they were trying to place a bag inside...

Russia says it is aiming to step up humanitarian aid to Syria's war-battered people by opening up its military facilities in Syria for international aid cargos. Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Monday that Russia "is ready to provide all necessary help to international...

Two French teenagers suspected of trying to travel to Syria to join ISIS returned home Sunday night, two days after they went missing, officials said. Israe, 15, and 16-year-old Louisa disappeared from their school in Haute-Savoie in the French Alps Friday, prompting the police to launch a...

Britain is to send several vessels to take part in a NATO mission to tackle people smugglers in the Aegean Sea, Prime Minister David Cameron announced Monday as European leaders met to discuss a migration crisis. Cameron announced that the Royal Navy would send the amphibious landing ship RFA...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 29 ISIS-affiliated militants and 7 civilians have been killed in the ongoing clashes between Tunisian army and police with the Islamist militants in Ben Gardane, a town close to the Libyan frontier, on Monday, interior ministry said in statement The statement assured...

Suicide bomber kills at least eight at Pakistan court- Reuters

Tunisia’s trade union federation, a joint winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, said Sunday Bahrain denied entry to two of its members in a row over Lebanon’s Shiite movement Hezbollah. (The Daily Star)

By Abdul Hafiz al-Holani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Most Syrian refugees in Lebanon cannot afford for the treatment and medication, and an urgent operation, literally means a death penalty, as hardly anyone can afford for their soaring costs. Abdullah Mohammed Taleb, 36...