SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- Yemen's information minister says Shiite Houthi rebels are shelling the residence of the country's president as they also swept into the presidential palace in the capital, Sanaa. The minister, Nadia al-Sakkaf posted on her Twitter account on Tuesday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of people have been killed in barrel bomb attack on a village in the northern Syrian province of Hasakah, activists said on Tuesday. Activist Seraj al-Haskawi said at least 60 people have been killed and 100 others wounded when...

Paris (AFP) - Four men will appear before a judge in France on Tuesday to face possible charges of providing support to one of the Paris Islamist attackers, the prosecutors' office said. The four men, aged 22, 25, 26 and 28, were among 12 people detained in police raids on...

Beirut (AFP) - The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless it receives a $200 million ransom within 72 hours, but Tokyo vowed Tuesday it would not give in to "terrorism". IS has murdered five Western hostages since August last year, but it is...

The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless Tokyo pays a $200 million ransom within 72 hours, in a video posted on jihadist websites on Tuesday. In the footage, a black-clad militant brandishing a knife addresses the camera in English, standing between...

Johannesburg (AFP) - Zambia goes to the polls Tuesday in a tightly contested race to elect a president after a ruling party power struggle following the death of Michael Sata in office last year. The two top contenders are Defence Minister Edgar Lungu, 58, representing...

ISIS militants have executed 13 teenage boys for watching the Asian Cup football match between Iraq and Jordan last week. The young football fans had been caught watching the game on television in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which is controlled by the Islamic State. ...

(Reuters) - Peer pressure from radicalised fighters in Syria and Iraq is more influential in attracting new recruits from Europe than Islamic State (IS) propaganda, according to British experts. The International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence...

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge demonstration gathered on Sunday in Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus, to protest against the starving policy the Syrian regime practices against people by closing all crossing...

(Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers stationed in the Golan Heights along the Syrian-Israeli border observed drones coming from the Israeli side before and after an airstrike that killed top several Hezbollah figures, the United Nations said on Monday. The flight of the drones in...

(Reuters) - Hezbollah supporters turned out in force on Monday to bury the son of the group's late commander, one of six fighters who died in an Israeli air strike in neighboring Syria that also killed an Iranian general. The killings raised the possibility of a retaliatory...

(Reuters) - Syria has started the long-delayed destruction of a dozen underground bunkers and hangars that were used for the production and storage of chemical weapons, diplomatic sources told Reuters on Monday. Damascus last year handed over 1,300 metric tonnes of toxic...

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Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source revealed an imminent political rapprochement between Riyadh and Ankara, noting that the differences and rifts began to fade in recent times. The Syrian opposition figure told Zaman al-Wasl that...

Shiite militia clashed with Yemen's army and fired on a convoy carrying the prime minister on Monday as pressure mounted on the embattled government of President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. The militiamen, known as Huthis, opened fire on the convoy carrying Prime Minister Khalid Bahah in the...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - The EU will appeal a December court decision ordering the removal of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from its terror blacklist, a spokesman said on Monday. Foreign ministers from the 28 member states decided at a meeting on Monday "to appeal the judgement...

(Reuters) - The Yemeni army and Houthi fighters clashed near the presidential palace in the capital Sanaa on Monday, a Reuters witness said, in the sharpest escalation of tensions since the Shi'ite Muslim movement took over the city in September. Gunfire and explosions were...

Editing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Opposition’s fighting battalions in Wadi Barada in the Western Countryside of Damascus have started a “cleansing campaign” against the National Defence Forces’ members, arresting 14. Abu Mohammed...

By Dr. Awad Al Sulaiman; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- How provoking seeing professional criminals like Benjamin Netanyahu giving his sincere condolence for victims of the terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo Fifty countries...

  (AFP)- Syrian forces have evacuated nearly 4,000 people from a rebel bastion close to Damascus that has been under government siege for nearly two years, state media said Sunday. The mass evacuation from Eastern Ghouta was also reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human...