Washington (AFP) - Global warming could elevate disease, ravage crops and push 100 million more people into poverty without action to prevent it, the World Bank warned in a disturbing new report Sunday. The problem of climate change is already hampering efforts to reduce...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-Syrian regime Sweida News published a video for unannounced meeting a meeting between a group of Druze minority clerics in southern Sweida city and General Wafiq Naser, head of the military intelligence in Druze stronghold.. A spokesman for the...

 Iran will attend the next round of Syria peace talks, a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying Saturday, a week after Tehran threatened to withdraw from the process. World and regional powers including Iran met in Vienna on Oct. 30 to discuss a political...

(The Telegraph)- Britain is "letting down" its allies by not taking part in attacking Isil's key strongholds in Syria, the head of the Armed Forces has said. General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the Chief of the Defence Staff, said it "makes no sense" that RAF airstrikes in Iraq stop...

(The Jewish Chronicle)- They came for the last Jews of Aleppo early in the morning. The first that the 88-year-old mother knew of them were the powerful knocks on the front door, a sound that sent her and the rest of the Halabi family cowering in the darkest corners of their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 24 Syrian civilians, including 3 children and a woman, have been killed Sunday in regime and Russian air strikes on a rebel-held areas across the war-torn country, 9 of them were killed in northern Idlib province, a monitor said The Syrian Network for Human Rights said...

The United States and its allies conducted 31 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday. The attacks included 12 against fighting units and an Islamic State supply cache in Syria and 19 in Iraq.

Three serving or former Russian soldiers have been geolocated by photographs in Syria, including locations near Hama, Aleppo and Homs, Russian bloggers said on Sunday, suggesting the Kremlin's operation stretches well beyond its air campaign. Russia first launched air strikes to support...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's media and activists have mourned on Sunday a top army commander said he had been killed in the ongoing clashes in the northern countryside of central Hama city. Major General Taleb Salameh was the commander of Brigade 47 that active in Homa and Hama...

Israeli police say a Palestinian attacker was shot dead after ramming his vehicle into a group of Israelis on the side of a West Bank road, wounding three of them. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says one of the Israelis was seriously wounded in Sunday's attack. She says paramilitary officers...

STOKE-ON-TRENT, United Kingdom: Jose Mourinho enters the international break with his future as Chelsea manager under closer scrutiny than ever before following his team's 1-0 defeat at Stoke City. The outspoken Portuguese was not even present at the Britannia Stadium Saturday as he served a...

Afghan refugees are going to fight for Iran in Syria on the offer of being paid a monthly salary and being granted permanent residency   (Middle East Eye)- Iran has recruited thousands of Afghan refugees living in the Islamic Republic to go and fight a religious war in Syria to...

Just two days after resolving a coalition row over how to handle a record influx of refugees, Germany's ruling parties are embroiled in another spat over whether to limit the asylum rights of refugees from Syria. The government was forced to clarify on Friday that its asylum policy for refugees...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Nusra Front has expelled al Bayyadha Battalion, a rebel group of 80 members, from northern Homs province because the latter had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, the Qaeda's Syria wing said in statement. Nusra fighters seized this week the checkpoints of al...

Laayoune (AFP) - Morocco's King Mohammed VI has vowed that revenues from the mineral-rich Western Sahara will continue to be invested locally, on a rare visit to the disputed territory. He was speaking late Friday in the territory's main city Laayoune, to mark 40 years since...

 At least 23 Syrian civilians were killed Saturday in suspected Russian air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus, a monitor said. Elsewhere, the Islamic State group freed 37 Syrian Christians who were among more than 200 people kidnapped in February, an NGO said. The strikes on...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group on Saturday released 37 Syrian Christians, most of them women, who were among more than 200 people kidnapped more than eight months ago, an NGO said. The Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights said the group of freed Assyrian Christians included 27...

Russia will on Saturday send 44 planes to repatriate its nationals from two Egyptian Red Sea resorts, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said as suspicions grow that a bomb caused last weekend's plane crash. Thirty empty planes will be sent to Hurghada, and 14 will be sent to Sharm...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A key alliance group north Syria, vowed in statement issued Saturday to revenge to martyred clerics killed Thursday in Lebanese border town of Arsal. Fatah Army, or the Army of Conquest, said the members of Qalamoun Sharia Society are not linked to Al Qaeda's Syria...

At least 19 people have been killed in Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clashes between pro-government forces and rebels in Yemen's south, military sources said Saturday. The air strikes took place late Friday and targeted two rebel vehicles on a road linking the central province of...