At least 18 people died and 37 others were injured when a fire broke out at a camp for African refugees in southern Algeria on Tuesday, Algerian official media reported, citing civil protection services. Algeria's south has become a traditional route for African migrants and refugees...
A U.S.-led coalition targeted Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with 26 air strikes against the militant group on Monday, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operations said. In a statement on Tuesday, the coalition said nine strikes in Syria hit near four cities, destroying several...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian helicopter hit in Syrian coastal province of Latakia by rebel group was struck with anti-tank missile, a monitoring group said. Activists and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights say rebels have hit the Russian helicopter with the U.S.-made TOW...
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced his new Cabinet at a press conference at Cankaya Palace in Ankara Tuesday following his meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to the list, the new Cabinet members are: Prime Minister - Ahmet Davutoglu...
Turkey summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires to the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday over the downing of a Russian warplane that violated Turkish airspace. Sergei Panov, Moscow’s envoy in Ankara, was called to a meeting with Ahmet Muhtar Gun, acting undersecretary, according to the ministry....
President Vladimir Putin's spokesman on Tuesday called the downing of a Russian Su-24 warplane in Syria a "very serious incident", but said it was too early to draw conclusions. "It is just impossible to say something without having full information," Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, told...
ISTANBUL: Turkish warplanes shot down a jet near the Turkish-Syrian border on Tuesday after it violated Turkish airspace, CNN Turk reported. (Reuters)
(By The Telegraph- Lauren Williams ) It took a knock on the door in the dead of night and a hair-raising journey through territory held by al-Qaeda militants to end 3,000 years of Jewish history in northern...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Monday have made gains against regime troops and their allies from Iran and Hezbollah in southern rural Aleppo, taking two hills and a village, The Revolution Coordination Committees said. Rebel factions led by the Conquest Army, an alliance of Islamist...
The head of the main political Syrian opposition body on Monday urged the extremist Nusra Front armed group to break with Al-Qaeda after a string of international terror attacks. "Over the past month the world has been surprised by several terrorist attacks, in Turkey, Lebanon, France and most...
A relative of the Palestinian artist sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for apostasy says his defense lawyers plan to appeal. Saudi Arabia's Al-Watan news website quoted Ashraf Fayadh's brother-in-law, Osama Abu Raya, as saying the verdict announced Tuesday is an initial sentence. Defense...
The use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war is becoming routine, a U.S. official said in The Hague on Monday, calling on members of the global chemical weapons body to collectively condemn their use. "Today, we must raise our voice collectively and emphatically to condemn...
(Zaman Al Wasl- Agencies)- The Syrian regime army and allied Shiite militia, backed by Russian bombardments, took control of two towns in western Syria after heavy battles with ISIS fighters, reports said Monday. Syrian state media reported the military and a local force had taken control of...
Officials say five girl suicide bombers have killed at least 12 people in Nigeria and Cameroon in weekend attacks. The bombers also died. Police who blamed Boko Haram say one girl detonated explosives strapped to her body Sunday evening at a military checkpoint guarding an entry to the...
French fighter jets took off Monday from the Charles De Gaulle aircraft carrier, newly deployed to the eastern Mediterranean, in an operation against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, military sources said. No information was given as to the nature of the operation.
The United States and its allies conducted additional strikes against ISIS over the weekend, including two in Syria that destroyed nearly 300 ISIS vehicles and an oil facility, the coalition leading the operations said. On Saturday, two strikes near Deir al-Zor and Hassakeh destroyed 283 ISIS...
Iran's ambassador to Russia said on Monday that Moscow had started the procedure of supplying Tehran with S-300 anti-missile rocket system, according to the Tasnim news agency. Russia and Iran signed a contract for Moscow to supply Tehran with S-300 surface-to-air missile systems on Nov....
Argentina, in a stinging repudiation of outgoing leftist President Cristina Kirchner, elected a pro-market government president to take the helm of Latin America's third-biggest economy. Conservative president-elect Mauricio Macri, fresh from Sunday's run-off election...
A young girl’s body was among those washed up on Turkey’s western coast on Sunday in a chilling reminder of the death of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi. In an echo of the boat disaster that shocked the world in September, drowned refugees’ corpses were carried to the coastline near the resort city...
Syrian refugees in Turkey have been joining the search for meteorite fragments in the eastern province of Bingol. In Saricicek, a village 5 km (3 miles) east of the provincial capital Bingol, showers of extra-terrestrial rocks have fallen on their land since early September. After hearing...
