An Egyptian television station suspended a female presenter's programme on Friday following online outrage after she shamed and allegedly stole personal pictures from a sexual harassment victim on her show. Stressing its "respect for all women and girls", the privately owned Al-Nahar channel...

The decision by U.S. President Barack Obama to send special forces to Syria is strictly focused on fighting ISIS and does not signify the United States is entering Syria's civil war, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said. "President Obama has made a very strong and forceful and simple...

Turkish jets on Saturday launched bombing raids against ISIS targets in Syria, the day before Turks are due to vote in a parliamentary election, a senior government official said. American jets were standing by to assist and all aircraft involved in the operations returned safely, the official...

At least 70 people were killed and 550 wounded in attacks on a marketplace in a rebel-held area east of the Syrian capital Damascus, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights had announced a death toll of at least 59, including five children, in...

  A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude, killing all aboard. A militant group affiliated to Islamic State in Egypt, Sinai Province, said in a...

 A newly formed U.S.-backed Syrian rebel alliance on Saturday launched an offensive against Islamic State in the northeast province of Hasaka, a day after the United States said it would send special forces to advise insurgents fighting the jihadists. It was the first declared...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people have been killed by Syrian regime in the northern countryside of Homs on Saturday, three of them passed away in a toxic-gas attack, activists said, reporting 35 suffocation cases. Homs Media Center said regime military had fired a missile carrying poisonous...

Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, police said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating. An Israeli police spokeswoman said that at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank a...

Russia and Iran must agree to a date and means for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to quit the country, and agree to withdraw all foreign forces from Syria, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said in an interview with Sky News Arabia broadcast on Saturday. Arch...

Police arrested 22 people Friday following the deaths of two Syrian media activists at their home in southeast Turkey. Ibrahim Abdul-Qadir and Fares Hamadi were found stabbed to death in Haliliye in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa, medical staff said. Local media reported the men worked...

As his family crammed alongside strangers into a small, exposed makeshift tent in Syria near the border with Turkey, Mohammed Musa slept outside in the mud through the first heavy rainfalls of autumn. A week earlier the 24-year-old, his wife, child, parents and siblings fled...

Cairo (AFP) - A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people crashed on Saturday in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian officials said. A "Russian civilian plane... crashed in the central Sinai," the office of Prime Minister Sharif Ismail said in a statement. A cabinet statement said...

 (AFP) - A Palestinian baby boy died Friday after choking on tear gas fired by Israeli forces, Palestinian officials said, as new knife attacks and clashes shook Jerusalem and the West Bank. Eight-month-old Ramadan Thawabteh was the latest victim of violence that erupted a month...

Paris (AFP) - More than 50 international media organisations have written to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressing deep concern about worsening conditions for journalists ahead of elections on Sunday. Agence France-Presse is among the signatories, which also include The New...

Germany agreed with Austria Friday to new rules for a more "orderly" passage of migrants, as the death of 17 children at sea highlighted the treacherous journey of those trying to reach Europe. After a week in which tensions flared between the neighbour states, Germany's interior...

At least 91 people, including 17 children, were killed on Friday in attacks on opposition strongholds in the north and outside Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The deaths came as top diplomats from 17 countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, met for the first...

U.S. special operations forces will arrive in northern Syria within the next month to start a wide-ranging advisory mission that will stop short of accompanying fighters on operations against ISIS, a U.S. defense official said on Friday. The senior U.S. official, who briefed Pentagon reporters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 60 civilians on Friday were killed in the northern province of Aleppo due to regime's deadly airstrikes and missile attacks on rebel-held towns and neighborhoods, activists told Zaman al Wasl. 20 people have been killed in Russian surface-to-surface missile hit...

 A prominent member of a secretive monitoring group in Syria that works to expose Islamic State atrocities in the war-ravaged country was found dead Friday along with a friend in southern Turkey, activists said. Members of the monitoring group, known as Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently,...

At least 22 migrants, including 13 children, drowned overnight Thursday to Friday off the Greek islands of Kalymnos and Rhodes as they made a desperate bid to reach Europe, while another 144 people were rescued, Greek port authorities said. Off Kalymnos, authorities recovered the bodies of 19...