Germany's foreign minister said Tuesday that Vienna talks on Syria are a first "serious attempt to break the spiral of increasing violence and chaos", but dampened hopes for quick solutions. "In Syria, after five years of civil war and more than 250,000 dead, there are finally first steps in...

Pro-government forces in Syria clashed with ISIS fighters around a military air base in the north of the country on Tuesday as they tried to break the extremists' siege of the facility, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said forces fighting on the side of the Syrian...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has spoken with U.S. President Barack Obama over the phone, which included talks over the ongoing Syrian stalemate, Turkey's presidential press office said Tuesday. Erdogan and Obama discussed the importance of making joint efforts to empower the moderate...

Tripoli (AFP) - When young Moroccan Rachid paid $1,500 to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, he never thought he would end up instead in a Libyan detention centre. Just before the 25-year-old was set to leave Libya, local authorities carried out a raid in Garabulli, about 60...

The Greek coastguard on Monday said it had discovered over 300 refugees hidden in a yacht that ran aground near the island of Lesbos. "The coastguard found and rescued 345 refugees," the agency said, adding that the yacht was discovered on Tsonia beach in the northeast of the island....

Turkey's prime minister said Monday that the fight against Daesh terrorist group requires an "integrated strategy" that will end the power vacuum in Syria. Ahmet Davutoglu’s remarks during a sit-down with CNN International came in his first television interview since his Justice and...

 Sarah and Ysra Mardini pull bathing caps over their long, black hair and slide into the water, disappearing among the throng of swimmers with powerful, practiced strokes. Two months ago the sisters were swimming for their lives, after jumping off an inflatable boat that began taking on...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of families are missing among 28 thousand people fled ISIS-captured towns of Mahin and Hawarin in the eastern countryside of Homs province due to the daily barrage of Syrian and Russian airstrikes. Most of displaced people headed toward the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels to launch an imminent attack on Maan town in the northern countryside of Hama, seeking to take regime's strategic military base after week of advances. Abu Khaled, An Ajanad al Sham media officer, a rebel group operating under the Army of Conquest, said at least...

Dakar (AFP) - The French army on Sunday bombed an oil supply centre held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Monday. "We intervened in Syria... yesterday evening with a strike on an oil supply centre near Deir Ezzor on the border...

Myanmar's ruling party conceded defeat on Monday in a general election as the opposition led by democracy figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi appeared on course for a landslide victory that could ensure it forms the next government. "We lost," Union Solidarity and Development Party...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unidentified assailants opened fire early Monday on two moderate rebel commanders in southern province of Daraa, leaving one them dead, activists said. Ibrahim al Masalmeh, the commander of Al Omari Martyrs Battalion, has lost his life while his comrade khaled Abazied has...

Thirty two Tunisian lawmakers accused President Beji Caid Essebsi's son of meddling and resigned from the ruling party bloc in parliament Monday, allowing Islamist rivals to become the largest party. Tunisia has enjoyed a period of political stability following its transition to democracy...

 Two American military personnel and one South African were killed when a Jordanian officer went on a shooting spree Monday at a U.S.-funded security training facility near Amman, Jordan's government spokesman said. Mohammad Momani told Reuters the attacker also wounded six people,...

Egyptian police said Monday they killed a top ISIS operative in the capital implicated in a string of attacks including the murders of a Croat and an American. An interior ministry statement said Ashraf Ali Ali Hassanein al-Gharabli was shot dead in an exchange of fire after police tried to...

A 400-strong Sudanese force arrived in Yemen's port city Aden Monday in support of pro-government forces preparing to confront a possible new offensive by rebels on the country's south. Yemen's loyalist forces, backed by Saudi-led coalition strikes, supplies and troops, pushed the rebels out...

The United Nations is expecting huge numbers of civilians to flee when Iraqi forces mount an offensive to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS militants. It is not clear when Iraqi forces will be ready to attack the northern city. The much anticipated counter-offensive has been repeatedly...

At least 16 Yemeni government soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in the province of Marib east of the capital Sanaa, military sources told Reuters late on Sunday. The sources said the bomb, which also wounded six soldiers, appeared aimed at a patrol near an army camp in Marib. They...

Israeli security officers shot dead a Palestinian woman who tried to stab them on Monday, officials said, the latest episode in an outbreak of violence that Israel's prime minister will discuss in talks in the White House. The woman had approached an Israeli checkpoint in the...

Russia and Iran have signed a contract for Moscow to supply Tehran with S-300 surface-to-air missile systems, Sergei Chemezov, the chief executive of Russian state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec, was quoted by the RIA news agency as saying on Monday. "S-300, the air defense...