Syria's exiled opposition, in written statement, has declined invitations from Russia and Egypt to attend peace talks with representatives of Bashar al-Assad's regime. According to AFP, a Russian foreign ministry spokesman said this week...
At least 30 people have died from H1N1 – so-called “swine flu” – in Turkey since 2014, Turkey’s highest Health Ministry official said on Monday. “We have collected a total of 4,300 samples from patients, out of which 366 were cases of H1N1, known as the swine flu,” Health...
(Anadolu News)- Serbian police have found 53 illegal immigrants and arrested two people for suspected human trafficking during an operation near Nis, the largest city in southern Serbia. The Serbian Interior Ministry said Monday that a total number of 53 citizens from...
Al Qaeda’s Syria wing backed by Islamist rebels on Monday have launched a major military operation in the northern countryside of Aleppo, seeking to recapture villages were controlled by Syrian regime forces early this month, activists said....
(Reuters) - The European visitors strolling Tunisia's Hammamet resort are an encouraging sign for a government determined to minimize the fallout of last week's shooting of 20 tourists in the nearby capital. But there is anxiety about the future in the five-star hotels, trinket...
Mainstream rebels in southern Syria say foreign states have stepped up weapons supplies to them since Damascus launched an offensive early last month to regain the frontier zone near Jordan and Israel. This suggests President Bashar al-Assad's Arab and...
Islamic State fighters attacked a military airport in Syria's Homs province on Monday as they pushed on with an offensive against government strongholds towards the west, a monitoring group said. Skirmishes by Islamic State -- which is strongest in the northeast and east -- into the...
(Reporting by Abu Abdullah al-Hour ani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Rebels of the southern suburbs of Damascus still mired in surprise since 56 fighters of al-Anfal Brigades handed themselves to Syrian regime in Yarmo uk Camp for Palestinian Refugees...
(Reuters) - Oil prices fell further on Monday, with Brent dropping below $55 a barrel, after top exporter Saudi Arabia said it would only consider cutting output if other producers outside OPEC did so too. The strengthening of the dollar further weighed on prices....
(Reuters) - Insurgent groups in Syria have carried out scores of indiscriminate attacks that have killed and maimed civilians in violation of the laws of war, a Human Rights Watch report said on Monday. The report said armed groups could not point to abuses by government...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman has invited Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi to visit the kingdom, Abadi's office said on Monday, in the biggest sign yet of improving ties between the countries after decades of tension. Abadi's office gave no details about the...
Syrian opposition’s interim government continues going downhill and it is gradually getting crumbled, but Ahmed Tomeh, the interim Prime Minister is still in his denial to the facts that the government has failed and bankrupted. Third of the interim...
(Reuters) - U.S. Senator John McCain accused President Barack Obama of throwing a "temper tantrum" over comments by Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu, adding to the conflict between the White House and the Republican-dominated Congress over Israel. McCain, asked on CNN's "State of the...
(Reuters) - Houthi fighters opposed to Yemen's president took over the central city of Taiz in an escalation of a power struggle diplomats say risks drawing in neighboring oil giant Saudi Arabia and its main regional rival Iran. Abdel-Malek al-Houthi, head of the powerful...
(Reuters) - Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Sunday that a third gunman involved in an attack that killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists, at a Tunis museum last week was on the run. The shootings at the museum inside Tunisia's parliament compound was one of the...
Syria’s key Islamist groups of Ahrar al-Sham has merged with Suqour al-Sham in one rebel group on Sunday, the leaders said in video statement posted online. ‘Battalions of S uqour al-Sham’ to be the name of the newly-born Islamic faction, Hashem...
Syrian rebels have captured several government airmen after their helicopter crashed in a rebel-held area of the country's northwest, activists have said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that four crew members...
Bukavu (DR Congo) (AFP) - Perched on a shelf, the "Little Kabila" with the mysterious eyes greets visitors to the Kivu Museum, housed in a Catholic mission but aimed at safeguarding endangered Congolese traditional artefacts some might consider "satanic". The statuette showing a woman...
Tunis (AFP) - Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi says security "failures" had helped facilitate the attack on the country's national museum claimed by the Islamic State group that left 20 foreign tourists dead. Twenty-one people, all but one of them foreign tourists, were killed when two...
(Reuters) - Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi accused the Iranian-allied Houthi militia on Saturday of staging a coup against him and appealed to the United Nations for “urgent intervention”, even as the United States evacuated its remaining forces. In a call to arms...
