U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes early on Friday morning in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, where Islamic State militants operate, killing as many as 40 people. A U.S. military spokesman said the attacks targeted a senior Tunisian militant linked to attacks in Tunisia...

U.S. and Russian military officials have held talks in Geneva ahead of a wider U.N. meeting on Friday aimed at trying to secure a cessation of hostilities in Syria, diplomats said. The unannounced bilateral meeting was aimed at narrowing positions before the two powers jointly...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- A giant French cement company based in northern Aleppo province is buying fuel and oil from the Islamic State, documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed. The leaked data, emails and documents reveal that...

Resuming Syrian peace talks on the scheduled date of Feb. 25 is not a realistic option, United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura was quoted as telling a Swedish newspaper Thursday. "I cannot realistically send out invitiations to new talks in Geneva on Feb 25, but we intend to do so soon,"...

Two Turkish soldiers and one police officer were killed in an attack by Kurdish militants in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Friday, the armed forces said in a statement. It said the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant attack occurred in the city's Sur district, parts of which have...

Turkish military is continuing to shell PYD positions in Syria’s Azaz district located in the northern countryside of Aleppo, Turkish security sources confirmed to Anadolu Agency Thursday. PYD is the Syrian affiliate of the terrorist PKK organization, which has targeted security forces as well...

(Daily Sabah)- Two Turkish students have disappeared after they were arrested by Egyptian police forces on early Sunday from their residence in Cairo, a London- based human rights group reported Thursday. Two brothers, Mücahit and Cihat Kırtoklu, both 21, were living in Cairo to study...

"Any rice?" says the woman, leaning into a shop in Cairo and brandishing a green smartcard that carries her family's food credits. The shopkeeper shakes his head: "Only sugar." Behind him, more than half the shelves are empty. Rice and cooking oil are nowhere to be seen. Tens...

Two Palestinian 14-year-olds stabbed and killed an Israeli in a packed supermarket in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said, as a five-month wave of bloodshed shows no sign of abating. An armed civilian shot the two teens, who were taken for...

On the frontline of Brazil's fight against Zika, Vandson Holanda sends Roman Catholic volunteers into the poorest areas of this city, showing residents how to protect themselves against mosquitoes that carry the virus linked to birth defects. Get rid of trash where water...

President Bashar al-Assad was out of step with the views of his main ally, Russia, when he said he planned to fight on until he re-established control over all of Syria, Russia's envoy to the United Nations was quoted as saying on Thursday. In the first public sign of cracks in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Most people of the pro-regime villages in the eastern countryside of Homs have been displaced due to the ISIS repeated shelling, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Since the hardline group seized control of two thirds of Syrian desert mid 2015, thousands of the...

The United Nations plans to make its first air drops of food aid in Syria, to Deir al-Zor, a town of 200,000 besieged by Islamic State militants, the chair of a U.N. humanitarian task force said on Thursday. U.N. aid agencies do not have direct access to areas held by Islamic...

Doctors Without Borders says it took the wrenching decision not to formally inform Syria's government or its Russian allies about the location of some medical facilities like one hit by a deadly airstrike this week. The charity says repeated attacks against health facilities during Syria's...

Turkey summoned ambassadors of the five permanent member countries of the U.N. Security Council Thursday, NTV reported, following the bombing in Ankara. Turkey's foreign ministry could not be reached for comment. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu had earlier said evidence about Wednesday's...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said the Ankara car bomb attack was carried out jointly by a YPG member from Syria and PKK members based in Turkey. "The assailants have all been identified. It was Syrian national Salih Necar who was born in the northern Syrian city Amuda in 1992,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Islam Army group killed three Islamic State fighters on Wednesday in clashes took place in al-Hajar al-Aswad suburb south of Damascus, rebel commander said. Ayham al-Omar, media officer of Jaish al-Islam, said his group had thwarted the ISIS attack on its checkpoint...

Turkish warplanes bombed camps belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq late on Wednesday, security sources said, following a car bomb attack in Ankara that killed 28 people. Turkey's CNN Turk television said a group of 60-70 PKK militants, including senior...

At least 500 rebels on Wednesday crossed the Turkish border heading for the Syrian town of Azaz in northern Aleppo province, activists said, where opposition forces have suffered setbacks at the hands of Kurdish forces. "At least 500 rebels have crossed the Bab al-Salam border crossing on...

A Syrian national, identified from his fingerprints, carried out a car bomb attack next to military buses in Turkey's capital, Ankara, that killed 28 people, the pro-government Yeni Safak newspaper said on Thursday. The paper did not specify the source for its report and it was not immediately...