BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- The Nusra Front Monday issued a new threat against the captive soldiers and policemen being held on Lebanon’s northeastern border after police raided a notorious prison packed with Islamists earlier in the day. In response, the families of the captives...

Writing by Balqis Abu Rachid; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Muslims in general, Syrian in particular, rejected latest attacks in France, considered them nothing more than terrorist attacks, which are completely not related to Islam and its principles. 17...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl): Many refugees inside Syria announce hunger strike today Monday to force the revolution’s associations especially the National Coalition to fulfill their logical and human demands especially rescuing them from the snow storm and the...

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of the Croatian Democratic Union was declared winner of Croatia's presidential run-off with 50,43 percent of the vote, the country's electoral commission announced late Sunday at the press conference held in Zagreb. Her rival, incumbent President Ivo...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on attending Sunday's anti-terrorism march in Paris despite being asked by French President Francois Hollande not to do so, Israeli media reported Monday. "Hollande conveyed a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the...

PARIS (AP) — French security forces are mobilizing in their search for what the prime minister called a "probably accomplice" to three days of bloodshed and terror around the capital, as well as to try to ensure the safety of the French people. Manuel Valls said the search is urgent...

(Reuters) - Iraq may need three years to rebuild and restructure its military, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday, as the country battles Islamic State militants who pose the biggest threat to its security since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. The...

(Reuters) - Pakistan's intelligence chief met Afghanistan's new president to discuss ways to boost coordination in fighting militant attacks in the region, an official said Monday, in a sign of improving ties between the often uneasy neighbors. It was the third trip to...

(Reuters) - Roche Holding will acquire a majority stake in molecular and genomic analysis firm Foundation Medicine Inc for up to $1.18 billion, it said on Monday, in a move to bolster the Swiss drugmaker's personalized cancer treatments. This targeted approach to treating...

 Turkey’s automotive, ready–made garments and chemicals sectors lead the way in overall exports last decade which hit the $1.2 trillion mark, data from the Turkish Exporters Assembly shows. Growing significantly each year between 2005-2014 save for the 2009 when a...

(Reuters) - A former aide to ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood was released on Sunday for health reasons after 18 months in detention without charge, relatives said. Khaled al-Qazzaz, Mursi's former foreign affairs secretary, was arrested in July 2013...

(Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coupled a show of solidarity with  France  on Sunday with a reminder to shaken French Jews that Israel is keen to welcome them as immigrants. Netanyahu and two far-right members of his cabinet flew to Paris on Sunday to...

By Al Hussein Al Shishakli (Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- Zaman al-Wasl newspaper on Monday to publish new photos of mass torture by Syrian intelligence services that illustrate apparent actions of serious international crimes, according to human rights advocates. The photos...

More than 27 Syrian people have frozen to death since 2011 March during Syria’s ongoing civil war, a Syrian human rights group said Sunday. According to pro-opposition Syrian Network for Human Rights, at least 27 people, including 16 children and three women have lost their...

(Reuters) - World leaders including Muslim and Jewish statesmen linked arms to lead an estimated million-plus French citizens through Paris in an unprecedented march under high security to pay tribute to victims of Islamist militant attacks.` Paris police said the turnout was "without...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants have killed at least 24 members of the Kurdish security forces in a surprise attack in northern Iraq , Kurdish officials said, in one of the deadliest single battles for the Kurds since last summer. Three Kurdish officers reported continued clashes...

(Reuters) - German police arrested a suspected supporter of the insurgent group Islamic State (IS) who was recently in  Syria  and raided his apartment in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, federal prosecutors said on Sunday. The 24-year-old suspect, who has German...

U.S. President  Barack Obama  will invite allies to a Feb 18 security summit in Washington, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Sunday after meeting his European counterparts in Paris. "We will bring together all of our allies to discuss ways in which we can...

 The Houthi militant group has threatened to overrun Yemen's eastern oil-rich Maarib province, citing what it described as the lack of government action towards the alleged presence of hundreds of Al-Qaeda militants in the region. The threat came in a message from the Shiite...

(Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of French citizens will be joined by dozens of foreign leaders, among them Arab and Muslim representatives, in a march in Paris on Sunday in honor of the victims of this week's Islamist militant attacks. The march, which is to start at 3...