Public security concerns after the Paris attacks were part of the reason Canada pushed back its end-year deadline for accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday. The federal government Tuesday announced it was aiming to welcome the refugees by the end of...

Acts of vandalism against mosques, anti-Muslim threats and fear have reached an unprecedented level in America since the Paris attacks, fueled by right-wing intolerance in the presidential campaign, activists say. "In such a short period -- it's what makes it unprecedented," said...

A Syrian military source said rebels are making heavy use of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles paid for by Saudi Arabia and supplied via Turkey in recent weeks and the weapons are having an impact on the battlefield. The so-called TOW missile is the most potent weapon in the arsenal of rebel...

The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, including a middleman it alleged buys oil for the regime from the Islamic State group. "The Syrian government is responsible for widespread brutality and violence against...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Anadolu Agency)- Turkey on Wednesday released a recording of warnings given to the Russian warplane later shot down on the Turkey-Syria border. In the recording, the Turkish Air Force command center in Diyarbakir warns the approaching flight to change course to the south....

In a report issued this week, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that more than 20,000 women had been killed in Syria’s ongoing civil conflict, including around 19,000 slain by Syrian regime forces. Publication of the report coincided with the International Day for the Elimination...

ISIS claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack on a Tunisian presidential guard bus, an official statement from the group said. Tunisian authorities said that a suicide bomber carried out the attack on Tuesday, which killed at least 12 people and forced the government to impose a...

Russia n and Syrian special forces rescued one of the pilots of a Russian warplane shot down by Turkey near the Turkish-Syrian border, Syrian state media reported on Wednesday. The state news agency SANA said the pilot, whose Su-24 jet came down in  Syria n territory on Tuesday,...

Standing two feet from Canada on windswept Montana prairie land, U.S. Border Patrol agent Andrew Herdina looks out over a line of crooked old fence posts with no wire between them -- the international border. "If somebody is set on doing it, there are plenty of opportunities to...

(Writing by Faris al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Al Wasl- Doctors in Hama Northern countryside have established an underground hospital as an alternative to treat patients and wounded civilians and military members, after destructing their hospital by the Syrian regime’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least two civilians killed in a U.S.-led air strike on their car in northern Hasaka province, activists said Tuesday. The victims were father and son driving a vehicle loaded with sheep. In a statement on Tuesday, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said...

French warplanes destroyed an Islamic State command center at Tal Afar, some 45 kilometers west of Mosul in Iraq, a French official said on Tuesday. "We hit an Islamic State command center at Tal Afar," the official said during President Francois Hollande's visit to meet his U.S. counterpart...

At least 13 people were killed in Tuesday's apparent suicide bombing of a Tunisian presidential guard bus in central Tunis, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency and tighten security around the capital. Troops and armed police patrolled the city streets and set...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a phone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama late Tuesday after Turkish Air Forces shot down a Russian warplane earlier in the day, Turkish officials said. A Russian fighter-bomber was shot down earlier Tuesday by Turkish F-16s after being...

Bondoufle (France) (AFP) - It was the day after the Paris attacks and the brother of one of the suicide bombers had been glued to his TV for close to 24 hours. He'd sat there, in shock, at his home in the southern Paris suburb of Bondoufle, watching as news outlets played and...

(The Independent)- Turkey’s downing of a fighter jet on Tuesday is thought to be the first time a Nato member has shot down a Russian aircraft since the Cold War, risking a dangerous increase in international tensions. Vladimir Putin was quick to warn of “serious consequences”...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 Tunisian presidential guards have been killed and 16 more wounded in an explosion hit their mini-bus in Tunisia's capital, Tunis, state TV reports. The explosion happened at a bus stop where the presidential guard picks up and drops off its staff, near the former...

(Zaman Al Wasl-Agencies)- Turkmen forces in Syria shot dead the two pilots of a Russian jet downed by Turkish warplanes near the border with Turkey on Tuesday as they descended with parachutes, a deputy commander of a Turkmen brigade told reporters. "Both of the pilots were retrieved dead. Our...

Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, saying it had repeatedly violated its air space, one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a century. Russian President Vladimir Putin said...

About 1,000 refugees and migrants are stuck at the main crossing point into Macedonia from Greece as authorities deny entry to some nationalities in contravention of international law, the United Nations said on Tuesday. "A new humanitarian situation is developing in Europe that needs...