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(Reuters) - Britain has withdrawn staff from its embassy in Yemen and temporarily suspended operations there over security concerns, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday, a day after the United States shut its embassy. "The security situation in Yemen has continued to...
ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Political Commission of Syrian National Coalition holds two-day meeting to discuss the foreign affairs agenda and to appoint new representatives in Qatar, Turkey and Britain, source said. Khaled Khoja, the newly-elected...
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will propose to Congress on Wednesday a new three-year authorization for the use of force against Islamic State with limits on U.S. combat troops' involvement, lawmakers and congressional aides said. Obama has defended his authority...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign fighters are streaming into Syria and Iraq in unprecedented numbers to join the Islamic State or other extremist groups, including at least 3,400 from Western nations among 20,000 from around the world, U.S. intelligence officials say in an updated estimate...
BEIRUT (AFP) - Syrian activists on Tuesday accused Jaysh al-Islam (Islam Army), a powerful Islamist group near Damascus, of detaining a group of their colleagues, in what they said was the latest in a string of abuses. "An armed group...
(Reuters) - U.S. aid worker Kayla Mueller, held hostage by Islamic State militants for 18 months, is dead, her family said on Tuesday, but the circumstances were unclear and President Barack Obama vowed to hunt down the culprits. Mueller's family received an email and...
The Twitter account of news outlet Newsweek was hacked Tuesday by ISIL supporters who then issued threats against President Barack Obama and his family. Once the account was breached, hackers calling themselves Cyber Caliphate replaced the banner image with...
Nine people were killed and 37 others wounded in separate incidents on Tuesday in Baghdad, police said. Three people were killed and 11 others injured when a car bomb exploded at a market place in al-Mahmoudiya district in southern Baghdad, police told The Anadolu Agency. One...
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said Tuesday that his country had signed several agreements with Russia for stepped-up cooperation in the fields of energy, trade and security. At a joint press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, al-Sisi said the two...
(Reuters) - Some members of Iraq's Yazidi minority are turning on their Arab neighbors, staging deadly reprisals against Sunni villagers they believe collaborated in atrocities inflicted by Islamic State on their community. Yazidis returning to their northern home area of Sinjar...
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(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 28 rebel factions operating in the southern province of Daraa, vowed to roll back regime forces from Qarfa and Namer villages said Tuesday . The statement came in response to a visit paid by the Head of the powerful Syrian Political security, Gen....
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(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said third parties including Iraq were conveying information to Damascus about the U.S.-led campaign of air strikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria. In an interview with the BBC...
(Newsweek)- John Cantlie, a British reporter held hostage by the Islamic State (ISIS), appears in a new video released by the terrorist organization on Monday. In the propaganda video titled "From Inside Halab," Cantlie is shown walking through Aleppo,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria’s opposition leader Khaled Khoja to visit France soon amid efforts to bolster the stand of key opposition group as the international support declines, sources said. Coalition’s embassy in France has been arranging the...
(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday extending the March deadline for a nuclear deal with Iran would not be useful if Iran does not agree to a basic framework that assures world powers it is not pursuing nuclear arms. "At this juncture I don't see a further...
(Reuters) - Families of fans who died outside an Egyptian soccer stadium on Sunday when security forces barred fans from entering will be offered 25,000 Egyptian pounds ($3280) in compensation. A Health Ministry spokesman said the final toll was 19 dead, but the public...
(Reuters) - Israeli officials are considering amending the format of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned address to the U.S. Congress next month to try to calm some of the partisan furore the Iran-focused speech has provoked. Netanyahu is due to address a joint...
