(Reuters) - At least 126 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years. Troops surrounded the building...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime armed forces on Monday targeted rebel-held Jobar neighborhood of Damascus by chlorine gas, but no suffocation cases reported, activists said. Local activists have documented more than 20 toxic gas attacks in the last...

At least 104 students have been killed and scores more injured by gunmen in a siege on an army hospital in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Tuesday.   Perwaiz Khattakh, the chief minister for the state of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where Peshawar is located,...

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At least 19 people, including 11 security personnel were killed in clashes with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists Monday across Iraq, a security source said. The dead also included three fighters associated with the al-Hashd al-Shaabi, a Shiite militia,...

Reporting by Abdullah ِAl Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nizar al-Heraki, Coalition's Envoy to Qatar detailed to Zaman al-Wasl the effort done to obtain a the power to renew Syrians’ expired passports, after the regime...

(Reuters) - Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney cafe on Tuesday and freed a number of hostages being held there at gunpoint, in a dramatic end to a 16-hour siege in which three people were killed and four wounded. New South Wales police said two men, aged 34 and...

  (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers threw their weight behind a U.N. plan for a truce in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, saying it offered a glimmer of hope for a political solution to the three-and-a-half year old civil war. The EU also said it...

Beirut (AFP) - The Syrian army on Monday lost control of two strategic bases in the northwestern province of Idlib to coordinated assaults by Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Al-Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda...

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Paris (AFP) - Jose Mourinho's Chelsea were drawn on Monday against Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City will tackle Barcelona in two blockbuster Champions League last-16 ties. Chelsea's reward for sailing into the knockout stages unbeaten is a testing match-up against...

( BBC )- Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria and another rebel group have taken control of a key military base in the northern province of Idlib, activists say. Members of al-Nusra Front, supported by those from Jund al-Aqsa, captured Wadi al-Deif base after launching a fierce...

Police have locked down the centre of Australia's biggest city after a gunman walked into a café in downtown Sydney, took hostages and forced them to display an Islamic flag. It is not yet known how many people are inside the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Martin Place, but...

OPEC’s recent decision not to cut production makes sense for the long term, former OPEC Secretary General said Friday while dismissing claims that the oil cartel has lost influence over the global market. Speaking to The Anadolu Agency on the sidelines of the fifth Bosphorus Summit in...

A source with the Palestinian Authority (PA) has said that the latter will submit the draft resolution for ending the Israeli occupation and establishing a Palestinian state to the UN Security Council on Wednesday. "In a meeting on Sunday night, the [Palestinian] leadership...

  Five hostages have escaped from a Sydney cafe besieged by a gunman during Monday morning rush hour, according to local media. The remaining hostages – who include men and women but no children -- are being ordered to stand with their hands against the windows in...

A military base of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) was attacked on Sunday by suspected militants from the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabaab movement. "An AMISOM base was attacked by several mortar shells tonight," Col. Mohamed Maalin, a Somalia Police Force member, told...

(By Abu Abdullah Al Hourani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many military formations of the “Southern Front” in the south of Syrian have signed “the defence Treaty” in an attempt to face the coming step. Dr. Ibrahim al-Jebawi, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- Syria's regime army seized an area north of Aleppo on Sunday and killed insurgents in battles for the strategic territory, Reuters reported. Syria's second city is at the heart of a fierce battle between pro-government forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl Photo)- Syrians suffer of expired passports, can extend the date of expiration by Syrian Opposition with the same stickers regime have, senior official said. The good news carried by National Coalition’s Embassy in Doha will end suffering of thousands...