Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani has reportedly been wounded in an air strike in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a military statement said on Thursday. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report. "There are confirmed reports that the so-called terrorist...

An Istanbul prosecutor responsible for investigating last month’s fatal explosion at an Istanbul airport has denied earlier reports about the blast being caused by mortar rounds. Chief prosecutor Fahmi Tosun said in a statement Thursday that his office did not make any such claims about the...

The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday on Lebanese financier Ali Youssef Charara and his telecommunications company, saying they supported the militant group Hezbollah. The U.S. action freezes assets of Charara and his company that are in the United States or in the...

Paris police shot dead a man with knife and fake suicide belt, carrying Islamic State flag

Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia deteriorated even further on Thursday as Tehran severed all commercial ties with Riyadh and accused Saudi jets of attacking its embassy in Yemen's capital. A row has been raging for days between Shi'ite Muslim power Iran and the conservative Sunni...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes staged new strikes on Zamalka, an eastern suburb of Damascus, killing at least 6 people, including children,  and wounding 50, local activists said Thursday, in less than 24 hours since 10 people lost their lives in the aerial bombing on Zamalka....

(BBC)- The Syrian government has agreed to allow aid into the besieged rebel-held village of Madaya, the UN says, amid reports of residents starving to death. The UN humanitarian co-ordinator said it was planning to deliver humanitarian assistance "in the coming days". Aid agencies...

At least 40 people were killed when a truck bomb hit a police training center in the Libyan town of Zliten Thursday, the town's mayor said. Zliten mayor Miftah Lahmadi said the truck exploded at the center as hundreds of recruits were gathering there.

China has sent an envoy to Saudi Arabia and Iran amid an escalating feud, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, calling on all sides to exercise restraint. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Ming was currently in Saudi Arabia and would travel on to Iran, ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying...

Saudi-backed Yemeni forces landed by sea at the Red Sea port of Maydee near the border with Saudi Arabia late on Wednesday, residents said, opening up a new front in a nine-month-old civil war. Northern Yemen is a stronghold of the Iranian-allied Houthi group, which has seized...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The leaked archive of Syrian Intelligence, obtained by Zaman al-Wasl , showed how the Assad family, many of them have first degree consanguinity to Bashar al-Assad, has involved in criminal and judicial abuses and violations.  The criminal...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 400 fighters from al-Sheitat tribe have joined the U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting ISIS in northern Syria, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The fighters and their families who were living in the PYD-held town of Shadbag have moved to Tal Abyad town in...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman AL Wasl)- Amna and Amina, the two Syrian girls from Qusayr in Homs, live now in Arsal, the Lebanese border town, who devoted their lives to help their blind and disabled father, have lost their father in Christmas day, even before receiving the fund they were...

North Korea said it successfully tested a powerful nuclear bomb on Wednesday, drawing criticism from world governments even though the United States and weapons experts voiced doubt the device set off by the isolated nation was as advanced as Pyongyang claimed. The underground...

Turkey will not give up on its demand for micro-blogging site Twitter to pay a 150,000 lira ($50,000) fine for not removing content it says is "terrorist propaganda" and will take measures after the period to pay the fine expired, Transport Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday....

The Obama administration has a vision for Syrian leader Bashar Assad's departure. Even if it works, the president won't be around to see the plan through. An internal U.S. timeline for a best-case Syrian political transition, obtained by The Associated Press, sets a date of March...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish police on Wednesday have arrested seven Syrian people said they were involved in the assassination of Syrian journalist Naji al-Jerf ten days ago, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Turkish police is due to hold press conference to stand on the crime clues on Thursday....

Nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum-seekers in Germany last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria, the government said Wednesday. The Interior Ministry said that 1,091,894 people in total were registered between January and December. Syrians were by far the...

If London-born convert Abu Rumaysah is confirmed as the front man in the latest Islamic State video, then he will be just the latest in a long line of militants to emerge from a banned group the authorities say breeds easy prey for jihadist recruiters. The video, purportedly...

Tunisia's prime minister, Habib Essid, on Wednesday announced a cabinet reshuffle naming new interior, justice and foreign ministers but gave no reasons for the changes. Tunisia has been under a state of emergency since an Islamic State suicide bomber attacked presidential...