At least 59 people were killed in a head-on collision between an oil tanker and a passenger bus near Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi early Sunday morning, officials said. The bus caught fire immediately after being hit head-on by the tanker loaded with oil,...
BEIRUT - Lebanon’s interior minister Sunday denounced the “monstrous” twin suicide attack that targeted a Tripoli cafe the day before, while the justice minister vowed to punish those behind the bombings that killed nine and wounded more than 30. Saturday's attack on the Omran...
Iraq's Vice President Usama al-Nujayfi called for more military support ahead of a planned attack for retrieving Mosul, the second largest city in the country, from ISIL control. "For us to go into this war strongly, we need to receive more reinforcement," said Nujayfi, in...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has warned against generalizing Muslims in the aftermath of a deadly attack on a French satirical magazine killed 12 people in Paris. “Terrorists are criminals who should be held accountable. We should not make any religion or nation...
Hayat Boumeddiene, dubbed as France’s most wanted woman, is in Syria and went there before this week’s deadly attacks, French media report. Reports in French dailies Le Monde, Le Figaro and other French media said on the Saturday that...
At least 30 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants and four Iraqi Peshmerga fighters were killed in clashes in northern Iraq Saturday, a Peshmerga source said. All the casualties took place in Kuwair village located 40 miles (65 kilometers) south of Erbil city....
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The tragedy of people under siege in southern Damascus is getting worse with Syria's harsh winter and cold weather, with closing the only crossing point to area, the situation reached to unprecedented levels of difficulty....
(Reuters) - A double suicide bomb attack on a cafe in the Lebanese city of Tripoli killed seven people on Saturday and wounded 20, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. The attack targeted a cafe in the predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen, the agency...
Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- “Say no to sedition, yes to the Arab-Kurdish brotherhood, we have the same wound” has been the theme of the initiative to help displaced people in Eastern North of Hasaka. Suffering of displaced...
Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nofal al-Dawalibi, the spokesman of the National Unity Movement to Liberate Syria, reveals to Zaman al-Wasl that his party “the Liberated Nationalists Party”, has ceased the Transitional Revolutionary...
(Reuters) - The radical London cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to life in a U.S. prison on Friday for his conviction on terrorism-related charges, including his role in the 1998 kidnapping of Western tourists in Yemen that left four hostages dead. U.S. District Judge...
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of civilians are likely to be forced to flee their homes during a planned offensive by Congolese and United Nations forces against Rwandan Hutu rebels entrenched in eastern Congo, a U.N. agency has warned. The U.N.'s Office for the...
(Reuters) - Dozens of Bahraini protesters on Friday clashed with security forces who fired bird shot and tear gas to disperse them during an anti-government rally over the detention of an opposition leader, a Reuters witness said. Western-allied Bahrain has seen outbreaks of sectarian...
(Reuters) - A liberal activist sentenced to prison and flogging in Saudi Arabia underwent the first round of 50 lashes in public after Friday prayers, rights watchdog Amnesty International said. Raif Badawi, who set up the "Free Saudi Liberals" website, was arrested in June...
(Reuters) - At least 2,100 people died in Syrian prisons last year and the bodies of many showed signs of torture, a monitoring group said on Friday, quoting the families of deceased detainees. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it believed the true figure to be...
(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has arrested three Saudi nationals and four Syrians over links to a suicide bombing and gun attack on the kingdom's border with Iraq, the first ground assault by militants on the frontier in years. On Monday, militants killed two Saudi...
At 11 p.m. on Sept. 5, 2007, 10 F-15 fighter bombers climbed into the sky from the Israeli military base Ramat David, just south of Haifa. They headed for the Mediterranean Sea, officially for a training mission. A half hour later, three of the planes were ordered to return to...
(Reuters) - One of the two brothers who killed 12 in a massacre at French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo this week has said he received financing by al Qaeda preacher Anwar al Awlaki in Yemen . Cherif Kouachi, who was killed along with his older brother by police on Friday after a...
(Reuters) - French anti-terrorist police surrounded a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after at least one person was taken hostage in a print works by two men believed to have carried out an attack on a Paris satirical journal. Earlier, police had chased a...
(Reuters) - Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered Muslims by publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad 10 years ago, will not republish Charlie Hebdo's cartoons due to security concerns, the only major Danish newspaper not to do so. "It shows that violence works,"...
