(Reuters) - Warships from the Saudi-led coalition have blocked a vessel carrying more than 47,000 tonnes of wheat from entering a Yemeni port, demanding United Nations guarantees that the cargo would not go to military personnel, shipping sources said on Thursday. Ocean Marine...
(Reuters) - Iran's leader on Thursday condemned as genocide the military intervention by its main regional rival Saudi Arabia in Yemen, sharply escalating Tehran's rhetoric against the two-week-old air strike campaign. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saudi...
n">(Reuters) - Iran ian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday demanded that all sanctions on Iran be lifted at the same time as any final agreement with world powers on curbing Tehran's nuclear program is concluded. Khamenei, the Islamic Republic's most...
Fighters of Tahrir al-Sham Army took control of parts of an international road connects Damascus with the Iraqi border, the rebel group said in statement Thursday. Baghdad Road is a strategic supply route for Bashar al-Assad's military bastions in the eastern countryside of...
Syrian Opposition's the National Coalition seeks to get regime's frozen assets and funds by the International Community and the Arab states, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The Western-backed group has formed a legal committee with main mission aims to get the Syrian funds that had...
(SHRC)- State Security forces in Egypt have raided the headquarters of a Syrian opposition channel based in Cairo and closed it without providing any reasons for doing so, Syrian Human Rights Committee reported . A group of around ten people dressed in civilian...
Daesh has released 216 Ezidi captives, most of whom are elderly people, Iraqi officials said. "The (released) group was held captive for more than seven months and has reached a safe place in Kirkuk," Khairi Buzani, general director of Ezidis affairs at the northern region of Iraq’s...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A confidential document by Syrian regime accused a colonel in the powerful Air-force Intelligence of facilitating the transfer and smuggling of many trucks carrying expired products from Iraq to Syria besides oil produced by the Islamic State (ISIS). ...
(Reuters) - The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said on Wednesday there is evidence of war crimes by Islamic State insurgents in Iraq and Syria but little prospect yet that their leaders will be investigated by the ICC. Crimes attributed to the...
(Reuters) - Two car bombs set off by Islamic State insurgents killed at least 31 people in northern Syria including a senior rival fighter from al Qaeda's Nusra Front, a group monitoring the war said on Wednesday. Islamic State, which has captured wide areas...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - United Nations officials warned on Wednesday of a potential "slaughter of innocents" unless aid and assistance reached a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria where thousands of civilians are trapped up in a vicious battle....
(Reuters) - Palestinian police said on Wednesday they had extended their security control in parts of the occupied West Bank following a deal with Israel , launching armed patrols for the first time in towns near Jerusalem. Louy Izriqat, spokesman for Palestinian police, said...
(Reuters) - Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition struck al-Anad airbase in south Yemen overnight and targets in areas around the southern port city of Aden, residents and local officials said on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia and four other Gulf Arab states, along with regional...
At least 20 Syrian regime troopers have been killed in the western countryside of Hama when an explosives-rigged vehicle belongs to Ahrar al-Sham movement struck their checkpoint late on Tuesday, the key rebel group said in statement. Activists said fighters of Ahrar al-Sham...
Rebels of Syria's southern front are likely to form a new powerful alliance similar to Fatah Army in Idlib city, in order to maintain gains they made recently in Daraa province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Islamist rebels, who seized the historic town of Bosra two weeks...
At least 15 people, including two rebel commanders, were killed late on Tuesday when an Islamic State suicide bomber stormed their meeting in Marea town north of Aleppo, activists said. Pro-ISIS Twitter news feeds praised the suicide attack that targeted meeting of Liwa...
(Reuters) - Eight Iranian border guards were killed by militants in a cross-border raid on the frontier with Pakistan on Monday, according to reports in the Iranian media. Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeast Iran has long been plagued by unrest from both drug...
(Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked a Tunisian military checkpoint on Tuesday, killing four soldiers and wounding three others in a raid in a central region bordering Algeria. Tunisian forces have tightened security since gunmen stormed the national Bardo museum in the capital Tunis...
(Editing by Yusra Ahmed) Ayham Ahmed, the pianist who sang with children in roads of Yarmouk camp during its siege, tells the world: “we are people love peace, don’t want war, please give us the peace, give us the childhood.” In those few words, Ahmed faces the world that...
(BuzzFeed News)- Shaykh Abdul Hadi al Arwani was the imam of the An Noor Mosque in Acton since 2012, and was known for his criticism of the Assad regime in Syria. His supporters told BuzzFeed News he was shot, though police have not yet confirmed the victim’s identity....
