Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 27 people in eastern Iraq on Monday, according to a statement posted on the SITE monitoring group's Twitter account. The attack took place at a funeral for the relative of a Shi'ite Muslim militia fighter in...
A suicide bomber killed four soldiers on Monday when he rammed a car laden with explosives into a military checkpoint in Aden, residents and a security official said. Several soldiers were also wounded in the attack at al-Mimdara neighborhood in Sheikh Othman district, northeast...
Turkish artillery hit as many as 10 Islamic State targets inside Syria on Sunday, a military official said on Monday. Up to 50 rounds were fired between 2 and 3 p.m. (1200-1300 GMT), the official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Turkish broadcaster NTV said the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes have carried out at least 30 raids on Harbanafseh town in Hama province since the 'cessation of hostilities' agreement took effect Saturday's midnight. Russian jets have also luanched 8 raids early Monday on the Turmen-dominated town, using vacuum and...
Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants and refugees who stormed the border from Greece on Monday, tearing down a gate as frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans. A Reuters witness said Macedonian police fired several...
The body of Hezbollah commander of special units, Ali Fayyad, has been found in ِSyria, Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Monday. Reports of Fayad's death first surfaced on Feb. 26 when Syrian activists said he was killed in Khanaser battlefront in northern Aleppo province. Fayad,...
(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- Syrian regime forces regained control of a key road to the northern city of Aleppo after making advances against ISIS militants Monday, an activist group and state television reported. Battles continued between government forces and the jihadist group in the area in...
HOMS, Syria (AP) — Two years after the last Syrian rebels left the besieged Old City of Homs, voices echo through the shells of bombed-out buildings, their upper floors tilted at odd angles as though frozen in time. "There is no danger here, because there isn't anybody," a soldier said as...
The United Nations and partner aid organizations plan to deliver life-saving aid to 154,000 Syrians in besieged areas in the next five days, the UN Resident Coordinator in Damascus Yacoub El Hillo said in a statement on Sunday. Pending approval from parties to the conflict, the UN is ready to...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed . (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists on Sunday have circulated on the social media a video showing prisoners on the central prison of Homs protesting against the regime’s attempt to release 200 prisoners to join the paramilitary National Defense Forces in its battles with the...
A twin suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 70 people in a Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Sunday in the deadliest attack inside the capital this year, as militants launched an assault on its western outskirts. Police sources said the suicide bombers were riding...
The number of refugees and migrants trapped in Greece may reach 70,000 in coming weeks, Greece's migration minister said on Sunday, adding that a NATO plan to crack down on smugglers could limit migrant flows significantly. Greece, a primary gateway to Europe for tens of...
The United States and its allies conducted 24 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Sunday. In Syria, near Tel Abyad, 10 strikes destroyed 23 Islamic State buildings, eight fighting positions used...
Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group bombed a busy junction and a nearby restaurant on Sunday in the town of Baidoa, killing at least 17 people, a police officer and the group said. Al Shabaab often carries out such suicide attacks in the capital and elsewhere in its bid to topple Somalia's...
The veteran opposition figure, Haitham al-Maleh, to be the acting head of the Syrian National Coalition as former head Khaled Khoja finished his two mandates, sources said on Sunday. Al-Maleh is a Syrian Islamist activist and former judge who joined human rights field since the 1960s.
Pope Francis called on Sunday for a united response to help flows of people into Europe fleeing war and suffering, as the region argues over sharing the burden of looking after them. Addressing crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Francis, who decried the suffering of...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A spokesman for the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Sunday that his U.S.-backed alliance of Kurds and Arabs fighters had driven ISIS from Tel Abyad town on the Turkish border, Killing 70 militants. Colonel Tala Cilo, SDf 's spokesman told RIA Novosti that "All...
Turkish security forces have foiled 18 suicide attacks since the start of the year, three of them by intercepting vehicles laden with explosives, Interior Minister Efkan Ala said in an interview with the Kanal 7 television station on Sunday. Ala said that one of the three...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes on Sunday carried out ten raids on Harbanafseh town in Hama province, rebel commander said, a day after a cessation of hostilities agreement took effect. An Ahrar al-Sham field commander said regime and Russia have stepped up aerial and ground offensive on...
War planes attacked six towns in Syria's northern Aleppo province early on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after a cessation of hostilities agreement took effect. Syrian insurgents said the air strikes were carried out by Russian war planes in support of Syria's...
