Libya's parliament has signed a declaration of principles with the General National Congress aimed at ending the conflict in Libya, Al Arabiya reported on Sunday. The declaration forms a ten-person committee, naming an interim president and deputy, the news channel reported.
A man with a knife stabbed another in an east London metro station on Saturday evening, reportedly screaming "this is for Syria", before police used a stun gun on the attacker and detained him. "We are treating this as a terrorist incident," Richard Walton, who leads the London police's...
Authorities in Argentina arrested six Syrians who flew into the South American country on false Greek passports, a spokesman for the federal police told Reuters on Saturday, adding that the bogus travel documents were probably obtained in Turkey. The six, including one minor, were taken into...
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday the next round of talks on the Syrian crisis would take place in New York later this month. "The governments involved are going to meet later in this month in New York in order to continue to move this process forward," Kerry said in a speech to...
By Secunder Kermani (BBC)- "Farah" was born in Britain but grew up in Syria. Last year, she was arrested by the Syrian government security forces, who accused her of being an opposition activist. She blames Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the torture that followed, and...
Three members of the Turkish security forces were killed on Saturday in clashes with militants in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, security forces said. Hundreds of people have died since the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) abandoned its two-and-a-half-year ceasefire in...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS car bomb exploded Saturday in the northern province of Aleppo, killing at least 7 rebel fighters in an attack on rival group in Tal Refaat town, Zaman al Wasl reporter said. The rigged car exploded near a military post affiliated to al Shamiya Front, key rebel group...
(Writing by Faris al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- A former detainee expressed the feeling of disappointment and pain she felt because of neglect and carelessness she faced after freeing. The former detainee explained that she with other 7 detainees were transferred...
At least 30 people have been killed and 80 others injured after a triple suicide bombing on an island in Lake Chad, according to security officials. Saturday’s blast, in a part of the lake controlled by Chad, has been attributed by local security sources to Boko Haram rebels. Three insurgents...
British bombers made their second round of strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria late on Friday, again hitting oil fields, British defense minister Michael Fallon said on Saturday. "Last night we saw the Typhoons in action for the first time, successfully hitting an oil...
(Reuters)- Top U.S. arms makers are straining to meet surging demand for precision missiles and other weapons being used in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State and other conflicts in the Middle East, according to senior U.S. officials and industry executives. Global...
Since Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet last week, the United States has quietly put on hold a long-standing request for its NATO ally to play a more active role in the U.S.-led air war against Islamic State. The move, disclosed to Reuters by a U.S. official, is aimed at...
A suspected Islamist militant and two members of his family were killed in northern Lebanon on Saturday, after the man blew himself up during an army raid on his home, security and medical sources said. It was the latest in a series of arrest raids across the country since two...
Several hundred Turkish soldiers have been deployed to provide training for Iraqi troops in an area near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is under Islamic State control, a Turkish security source told Reuters on Friday. Islamic State militants overran Mosul, a city of...
The amount of oil being smuggled into Turkey from Syria was not enough for anyone to profit from it significantly, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Friday, rejecting claims by Russia that top Turkish officials were benefitting by smuggling oil from areas of Syria...
The United States has yet to agree with Baghdad on crucial details governing the role of a new American special forces unit aimed at hunting Islamic State militants in Iraq, U.S. officials said, underlining the difficulties Washington faces dealing with Iraq's weakened leader. Defense Secretary...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Southern Front rebel group has received an invitation by Saudi Arabia to to attend Riyadh conference scheduled in mid December, well-informed sources told Zaman al Wasl on Friday. The conference meant to unify as many Syrian political and armed opposition factions as...
The Russian man beheaded as a spy by the Islamic State group was a moderate Muslim who had rejected attempts by militants to recruit him to fight in the Middle East, his adoptive family told Reuters on Friday. A video posted online by Islamic State this week showed a man in an...
(Reuters)- Eight killed in Central African Republic days after pope's visit.
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 53 people killed on Friday in Syrian regime air strikes on the eastern suburbs of Damascus, Syrian Civil Defense and monitoring group said Activists and the monitoring group that tracks war in Syria said at least 53 people had been killed regime air air...
