Yemen's ISIS-linked militants say they have killed a senior security officer in the southern port city of Aden. The militants on Monday said in an online statement that they killed Col. Ali Saleh al-Yafie and posted photographs purported to show the killing in Aden's Mansoura neighborhood....
Franco-Dutch airline group Air France-KLM said Monday that the November 13 terror attacks in Paris reduced its December turnover by an estimated 70 million euros ($76.42 million). But the effect had largely tailed off over the past two weeks, it added. "The negative impact of the Paris...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- A rehabilitation and physiotherapy centre in Reyhanli, a Turkish border city with Syria, is about to shut down due to lack of funds, leaving its Syrian patients wondering of their future medical and clinical conditions, or even how to afford for...
Cologne police on Sunday said they had now recorded over 500 cases of New Year's Eve violence blamed on migrants, piling fresh pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel over her liberal stance towards refugees. Marking a sharp jump from the caseload of 379 given on...
Syria's al-Qaeda affiliate briefly detained two of the country's most prominent media activists who worked at a radio station in the northwestern Idlib province on Sunday, their employer said. Raed Fares and Hadi al-Abdallah were released about 12 hours after their abduction, Fresh FM said in...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took ground on Sunday from ISIS in the northern countryside of Aleppo near the Turkish border, field commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels have captured towns of Qura Cobri, Qura Mazra'a and al-Kherba which had been controlled by ISIS two weeks ago. Omar...
The death toll of Russian air strikes in Syria's Idlib province has nearly reached 100, as several dozen of those who were critically injured in the attacks on Saturday have died, a volunteer rescue group reports. "After 32 hours of our rescue operation, and following the deaths of...
Islamic State militants left Ramadi's streets and buildings boobytrapped with bombs, hampering efforts to rebuild the city two weeks after Iraq's elite counter-terrorism forces claimed victory against the militant group there, officials said. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar...
By Louisa Loveluck and Ben Farmer (The Daily Telegraph)- Senior British politicians are leading calls for the RAF to drop aid to a besieged Syrian town where thousands of civilians are starving to death....
Saudi authorities Sunday executed an Ethiopian woman convicted of murdering a Saudi female with an axe, the 50th death sentence carried out in the kingdom this year, the interior ministry said. Jinat Farid was found guilty of killing Ghalia Eida al-Harithi by striking her repeatedly with...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aisha al-Hajiri, or Om Omar, a widow in her fifties from Arsal, has devoted her life after her husband’s death to help the disabled, although she is not that affluent, but she has turned her 2-room-house into a center to look after disabled and those...
Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate stormed a radio station and abducted two prominent media activists from a rebel-held northwestern town today, an opposition official told AFP. "Al-Nusra Front kidnapped at 0655 (local time) activists Hadi al-Abdallah and Raed Fares in the offices of Fresh...
(Independent)- Supporters of the Syrian regime are sharing photos of their dinners to taunt thousands of starving civilians in a besieged town . The hashtag #متضامن_مع_حصار_مضايا, meaning “solidarity with the siege of Madaya ”, has sparked a new wave of outrage over the continuing...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists reported fierce clashes on Saturday between rebels and regime troops backed by their Hezbollah militia in the southern town of Sheikh Miskeen in Daraa province. Bashar al-Assad's forces backed by fighters from Hezbollah have launched major offensive two weeks...
New friction between Saudi Arabia and Iran sparked by the execution of a Shia cleric is not expected to rise to a level of military conflict, according to close observers. The kingdom’s decision to execute Nimr Baqir al-Nimr was denounced in Iran as protesters raided the Saudi embassy...
Protesters in Kosovo clashed with police on Saturday during a rally in the capital Pristina over a deal the government struck with Serbia last year. The rally was organized by opposition parties in front of the National Theatre in a bid to convince the government to scrap the August 25...
Iran's foreign minister has complained to the United Nations about Saudi Arabia's "provocations" toward Tehran, as a diplomatic crisis between the region's two major powers entered its second week. In a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon published by Iranian news...
Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said on Saturday that the government will announce additional security measures to safeguard tourists after an attack in the Red Sea resort of Hurgada left three injured on Friday. Tourism is critical to the Egyptian economy as a...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes killed at least 51 people in the rebel-held town of Maarat al-Nouman in the northern province of Idlib on Saturday when it struck a court house and an adjacent prison, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists reported. The...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The planned Geneva talks between Syria's warring parties on Jan.25 might get delayed, well-informed opposition sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The situation on the ground is not boding well as the Syrian regime keeps its aerial and ground campaign along with the starvation...
