Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Bangladesh on Thursday, killing one person and wounding three as they prayed, the second attack on the country's tiny Shia Muslim community in a month. Witnesses said three young men stormed into...
A Kurdish militant was killed on Friday in clashes with police in southeastern Turkey's biggest city of Diyarbakir, security sources said. Fighting erupted in the Bagcilar district of Diyarbakir after militants opened fire on a police vehicle, they said. Three police were wounded,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Turkmen rebels have recaptured Burj Zahiyah mountain in Mount Turkmen late on Thursday after a fierce fighting with Syrian regime troops backed by Shiite militants near the Turkish border. Burj al Zahiyah, which based in the main stronghold of Turkmen minority...
Turkey will work with Russia and its allies to calm tensions after a Russian jet was downed near the Syrian border, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in an opinion piece published by Britain's Times newspaper. Davutoglu also said that discussions were taking place in...
Syrian Kurds need political and military representation at a Syrian opposition conference organized by Saudi Arabia next month because they are a main partner fighting Islamic State and important to Syria's future, a Syrian Kurdish leader said. Saudi Arabia says it is in...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zamanl Al Wasl- Eqtsad )- Many Syrian families have suffered after reaching to Europe from social and familial difficulties, especially when women got benefits of the European law which is more supportive to women and gives them priority in managing the family and...
Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef set the tone on Monday of the 43rd International Emmy Awards as he paused to commemorate the recent victims of Islamic state group [IS] attacks around the world, al-Araby al-Jadeed's Arabic service has reported. Youssef became the first Arab to host the...
(Reuters)- Hundreds of Moroccans, Algerians and Pakistanis tried to storm the border between Greece and Macedonia on Thursday, tearing down part of the barbed wire fence at the crossing and demanding to be allowed to carry on into northern Europe. They were among about 1,500...
The Syria war is escalating in tandem with intensified diplomacy, but neither growing foreign military intervention nor a revived political track look capable of bringing an end to the 4-1/2-year-old conflict. The risk is a more ferocious proxy war between President Bashar...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists reported Thursday a fierce fighting between Syrian regime troops backed by Shiite militants and Turkmen fighters in the mountainous Latakia province near the Turkish border. Regime forces have taken Burj al Zahiyah village in the main stronghold of Syrian Turkmen...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday dismissed "emotional" and "unfitting" suggestions that projects with Russia could be cancelled following Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border. In an escalating war of words, he responded to Russian accusations that...
Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting". In an escalating war of words, President Tayyip...
Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday it was time to join air strikes against Islamic State in Syria because Britain cannot "subcontract its security to other countries". Many Britons are wary of entering into another war in the Middle East after Western intervention in Iraq,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia on Thursday has renewed air strikes on aid vehicles near the Turkish border, targeting a convoy in Sarmada town in northern province of Idlib, activists said. There were no immediate reports of casualties. On Wednesday, Russia's warplanes carried out two air...
(Interview by Abdullah Al Ghadawai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dr. Mohammed Hikmat Walid, the Supreme Leader of Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has faced all who accused them of prevarication, deception and repudiation of the allies and considered them politically immature,...
Russia said Thursday that it would reinforce control over Turkish food imports as tensions surged with Ankara over the downing of a Russian warplane in Syria. "Taking into account repeated violations by Turkish producers of Russian norms, the Russian government has tasked (food safety agency)...
In the downing of a Russian fighter jet on Tuesday, an independent expert says that the Turkish radar tracking provided is more accurate than similar material provided by Russia. Legal experts also confirm that Turkey had a right to take action. According to Turkish army on Tuesday, two...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians on Wednesday have been killed in Russian air strikes on aid vehicles near Azaz, a border town with Turkey in northern Aleppo province, activists and reporter said. Russia's warplanes have carried out two air strikes on an aid warehouse near Bab al Salameh...
The United States is using sex, money and Western lifestyles to infiltrate Iran's decision-making elite, the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday. The remarks by Khamenei, who has the last word on matters of state, followed a wave of...
(Reuters)- The United States and its allies launched a fresh round of daily airstrikes against ISIS Tuesday, targeting the militant group with 18 strikes in Iraq and five in Syria, the U.S.-led coalition leading the operations said in a statement. In Iraq, the strikes near 10 cities included...
