The Algerian authorities turned down a French request to allow for the burial of Cherif and Said Kouachi – who are suspected of carrying out a deadly attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo – on Algerian soil, a local newspaper reported Saturday. "The French government...
BAGHDAD (AFP)- A young boy raises a pistol, aims at two kneeling men and fires, in a shocking propaganda video highlighting ISIS 's efforts to indoctrinate another generation with its brutal ideology. The boy, who doesn't look older than 11 or 12,...
(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- The atrocious photos of mass torture by Syrian security had been taken in a well-known military hospital in Mezzah neighborhood of Damascus. Hospital 601 was the photographing scene of Bashar al-Assad’s war...
(Reuters) - The International Criminal Court has launched an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, opening a path to possible charges against Israelis or Palestinians. In a statement on Friday, prosecutors said they would examine "in full independence and...
Chancellor Merkel has said she does "not see Islamization" in Germany in a challenge to claims made by far-right groups alleging German culture is being eroded by Muslims. In some of her strongest statements to date on the rapidly growing anti-Islam movement...
(Reuters) - Several hundred U.S. military trainers will begin moving to the Middle East in the next four to six weeks amid efforts to start training this spring for moderate Syrian opposition forces who will battle Islamic State fighters, the Pentagon said on Friday. The U.S....
(Reuters) - The Syrian state news agency on Friday attacked U.S. military plans to train and equip Syrian rebels, saying they amounted to support for terrorists. The plan is part of the U.S. strategy to roll back the Islamic State group that has seized much of eastern and...
At least 43 people, including 40 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants were killed across the country Friday, security forces said. The U.S-led international coalition launched airstrikes on five alleged ISIL bases in eastern al-Baghdadi area in Anbar province...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has postponed Friday's public flogging of activist and blogger Raif Badawi on medical grounds, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. Badawi was subjected to the first 50 lashes a week ago and was due to be flogged again after...
TRIPOLI, Reuters - Libyan factions agreed to continue United Nations-backed negotiations in Geneva next week over ending the country's political crisis, the U.N. said, though key representatives from Tripoli's self-declared government have stayed away. Nearly four years after a...
(Reuters) - U.N. aid workers have started delivering food to tens of thousands of people trapped in a besieged district of Homs city in Syria following negotiations with warring parties, officials said on Friday. In the absence of a nationwide peace deal, relief groups...
(Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande reassured Muslims on Thursday that his country respected them and their religion but said France would not compromise on its commitment to freedom and democracy. Speaking a week after Islamist militant violence that killed...
(Reuters) - Oil prices edged up in early Asian trading on Friday benefiting from positive technical price momentum, but analysts said it was too early for a trend reversal of steep recent price falls as structural oversupply remains in place. While the fundamental outlook for oil...
(Reuters) - Asian shares stepped back on Friday and major currencies mostly stuck to late U.S. levels as investors caught their breath, after Switzerland's unexpected move to abandon its currency cap jolted markets already roiled by plungingcommodities prices. The euro...
(Reuters) - Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids on Thursday against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch "terrorist attacks on a grand scale". Coming a week after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in...
(Reuters) - Arab foreign ministers on Thursday endorsed a Palestinian plan to resubmit a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council calling for Israel to withdraw from occupied territories by late 2017. The United States helped defeat a similar draft resolution in a...
(Reuters) - Islamic State has executed a Syrian it accused of belonging to a militant cell that ambushed its fighters and blew up its vehicles in the town of al-Mayadin near the border with Iraq , a monitoring group that tracks the conflict said on Thursday. Islamic State...
(Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said after talks in Cairo on Thursday he hoped that a Canadian journalist working for Qatar-based Al Jazeera television could be released from prison in Egypt . Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and...
(Reuters) - The Pentagon transferred five Yemenis held at Guantanamo prison to foreign custody on Wednesday in the first handover of detainees in 2015, sending four to Oman and one to Estonia despite Republican calls for a moratorium on the resettlements. U.S. officials...
(Reuters) - Republican and Democratic U.S. lawmakers will press ahead with a plan for more sanctions on Iran , the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday, despite White House warnings that they risked derailing nuclear talks. Lawmakers, who say...
