Tensions with Russia could cost Turkey's economy nine billion dollars in the worst case scenario of "zero relations", Turkish Deputy Prime Minister said Monday. Moscow has imposed a series of economic sanctions against Ankara after Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian jet on the Syrian...

 The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group denied Monday its planes carried out air strikes that killed at least three Syrian regime troops a day earlier. "We've seen those Syrian reports but we did not conduct any strikes in that part of Deir Ezzor yesterday. So we see no...

British detectives have charged a man with attempted murder after a knife attack at an east London metro station on Saturday night which was described by police as a terrorist incident. Police said 29-year-old Muhaydin Mire of east London would appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court later on...

An earthquake measuring 7.2 magnitude struck Tajikistan Monday, shaking buildings as far away as the Indian capital of New Delhi and in Pakistan, the U.S. Geological Survey and witnesses said. A spokesman for Tajikistan's Emergencies Committee said it had no information so far on any...

(Foreign Affairs)- With U.S.-made antitank missiles finding their way to Syrian rebels and Russian fighter jets pummeling the same rebels and supplying the Bashar al-Assad regime with antiaircraft missile systems, it might seem easy to describe the battle in Syria as a proxy war. But that...

President Barack Obama addressed the nation on Sunday night as recent attacks in Paris and California have raised concerns that the U.S. and other countries aren't doing enough to prevent terror attacks. "I know that after so much war, many Americans are asking whether we are confronted by a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs have killed 18 people on Sunday, activists and medics said. Regime's missile attack on Zamalka outskirt east of the capital has left at least 15 people dead and dozens wounded. Three more people have lost...

Energy links between Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Islamic State stretch beyond oil, according to a Turkish security source that spoke to Anadolu Agency. The Syrian regime and ISIS, which controls most oil and gas fields in Syria, have been cooperating over power supplies as well as trading...

The far-right National Front is ahead in the first round of Sunday’s regional elections in France, held in less than a month after the terror attacks on Paris, exit polls show. According to early unofficial results, the National Front is leading in 6 out of 13 regions with the party's...

Humanitarian aid has reached a besieged rebel-held area in the central Syrian city of Homs, part of a local ceasefire deal that is to include the withdrawal of opposition fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. In a delivery presided over by the United Nations, food and...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday his country might turn to the U.N. security council if Turkish troops sent to northern Iraq were not withdrawn within 48 hours. He said the deployment of hundreds of Turkish forces near the northern Islamic State-controlled city of...

Saudi Arabia will host a meeting of Syrian opposition groups in Riyadh from Dec. 8-10 aimed at choosing representatives for future international talks on Syria, the official Saudi Press Agency said on Sunday. The Saudi conference marks an attempt to bring together disparate groups...

 At least 32 people, including 8 children and 5 women, were killed on Sunday in apparent US-led coalition air strikes on the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa province, activists and monitor said. He said the wave of raids hit IS bases to the north, east and...

(By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ( Zaman Al Wasl) - About 20 days ago, rebels in the southern countryside of Aleppo targeted the armored car of   Qassem Soleimani,  commander of the  Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes had dropped 820 barrel bombs on Daraya suburb southern the capital in November, local governing council said. The poor southern outskirt of Damascus has been under suffocating siege for over three years and under daily barrage of barrel bombs in...

A powerful Syrian rebel group said a conference to try to unify Syria's opposition will open on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, and that it had been invited to the talks. "Islam Army has received an invitation to attend the Riyadh conference, which has been decided to be held between (December)...

British air strikes on Islamic State will fail to defeat the militant group, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper, mocking Prime Minister David Cameron's strategy in the region. British lawmakers approved the bombing of...

(The Guardian)- The United Nations’ sanctions monitoring team warned last Tuesday that Libya was emerging as a key stronghold for Islamic State close to the shorelines of Europe. The warning aligns with assessments by US intelligence officials that the organisation’s franchise is...

The governor of Yemen's Aden province Jaafar Mohammed Saad was killed on Sunday when a suicide bomber rammed his car into the governor's convoy in the western part of Aden city, residents and a local official said. They said at least six of his entourage also died in the attack, which occurred...

A top advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader on Sunday said the future of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad could only be determined by the Syrian people and this was a "red line" for Tehran. Assad's fate is a sticking point in talks between world powers aimed at finding a political solution to...