(CBS)- In defending a policy proposal that calls for stricter vetting of Syrian refugees entering the United States, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson compared some of the fleeing migrants to "rabid dogs" and warned that it would be "foolish" to accept such people into the U.S....

Writing by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- "Time can not be counted in Homs by months, weeks or days, but by the drops of blood, mortar shells. The roar of the airplanes and sound of swords. It is the price a country seeks freedom must pay,” in these words, Homs...

n">More than 500,000 people - a quarter of them children - were homeless in the United States this year amid scarce affordable housing across much of the nation, according to a study released on Thursday. The report, from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...

Hundreds of innocent people have been killed in spectacular attacks claimed by Islamic State militants from Syria, but diplomats say major powers are no closer to a peace deal to end nearly five years of bloodshed and chaos there. Meeting in Vienna the day after Friday night's...

At least four of the Paris attackers were listed in a central counter-terrorism database maintained by the U.S. intelligence community, five U.S. officials said on Thursday. At least one and possibly more of the attackers was also on a more selective U.S. "no fly list",...

Islamic State militants released a video on Thursday threatening the White House with suicide bombings and car blasts and vowing to conduct more attacks on France. The six-minute video released by Islamic State fighters in Iraq applauds last week's Paris attacks, according to a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Our readers can download the reservists list of  Syrian regime military that contains names of about 55,000 people required to perform reserve service between 2014 and 2015. The Syrian regime army, one of the region's largest, has been over stretched by a...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Syria’s Bashar al-Assad of supporting terrorism in the region. “The main culprit for today's humanitarian tragedies and acts of terrorism is the Assad regime, which has killed 380,000 of its people,” Erdogan said, adding: “Assad carries out...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 people on Thursday have been killed and dozens wounded in barrel bomb attacks on rebel-held town in southern province of Daraa, activists said. The aerial attacks that killed 25 farmers had targeted the main olive mill in Sheikh Miskeen town in Daraa. The United...

Kuwaiti authorities have arrested an extremist network that supplied funds and weapons, including rockets, to Islamic State, state news agency KUNA quoted the Interior Ministry as saying on Thursday. The group included a Lebanese, an Egyptian, five Syrians, two Australians and a...

ISIS is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region, according to Iraqi and U.S. intelligence officials. Their quest raises an alarming scenario for the...

Turkey Thursday handed over to Greece a man suspected of seeking to join Syria extremist, though not in relation to any attacks under investigation, a police source said. The suspect, a member of the Greek Muslim minority living in the northeastern town of Komotini, had been arrested in Turkey...

Even Abdelhamid Abaaoud's own family prayed for his death, and on Thursday they got their wish when the Belgian jihadist behind the Paris attacks was confirmed killed in a French police raid. Abaaoud was a one-time school bully and petty criminal from the Brussels immigrant district of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A powerful Syrian insurgent group said on Thursday it was studying a local ceasefire proposal tabled by an international mediator aimed at halting fighting near Damascus. Islam Alloush, spokesman for the Jaish al-Islam group, or Islam Army,  told Reuters the ceasefire...

n">The mobile messaging service Telegram, created by the exiled founder of Russia’s most popular social network site, has emerged as an important new promotional and recruitment platform for Islamic State. The service, set up two years ago, has caught on in many corners of...

U.S. President Barack Obama said Thursday it may take some months for Russia, Iran and the Syrian ruling elite to accept that there can be no end to Syria's civil war or a political settlement while President Bashar Assad remains in power. Obama said that Moscow and Tehran recognized ISIS as a...

Serbia and Macedonia have begun limiting the passage of migrants across their borders to Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans, turning back Africans and Asians, the United Nations said Thursday. A senior police source in Macedonia, who declined to be named, said Skopje had acted after European Union...

Iran has called for all sides in Yemen's war to join U.N.-sponsored peace talks and accused Saudi Arabia of worsening the conflict with its military intervention against Tehran-backed rebels. In talks with visiting U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed Wednesday, Iranian officials including...

  Facebook Inc said it erroneously disabled the personal account of a user named Isis Anchalee for about a day, an action the user claims was due to her name being spelt the same as the acronym used for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militant group. Anchalee, a software developer in...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Xinhua)- The ceasefire negotiations, which have been taking place to achieve a 15-day truce east of the capital Damascus, have failed, a monitor group reported Thursday. The Syrian government forces and an array of rebel groups in the Eastern Ghouta countryside of Damascus have...