(Reuters) - Libya's eastern Es Sider oil export port, the country's biggest, has been shut due to fighting nearby between forces representing the country's competing governments, an oil official said on Sunday. Air strikes on Saturday by forces loyal to Libya's recognized...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A 10-year-old Syrian boy was killed on Saturday by the Lebanese Army in al-Hosn refugee camp near border city of Arsal, activists said. Mohammed al-Masri , a resident in the camp, reported to Zaman al-Wasl...
BEIRUT: Two Syrian children died Saturday morning after suffocating from a fire that erupted in their home in the Bekaa Valley, the National News Agency said. The two Syrian girls were identified as Ayah, 5, and her younger sister, four-year-old Hala, who were in their house...
(Reuters) - A U.S. think tank analyst and former diplomat who has written articles critical of Egypt's government was blocked from entering the country to attend a conference on Saturday. Michele Dunne, a former diplomat once posted to Cairo and a senior associate at the...
(Al Arabiya News)- Syria’s Hazem Sharif was crowned on Saturday Arab Idol 2014, the most watched show in the Middle East, beating off his two rivals Palestinian Haitham Khalailah and Majid Al Madani from Saudi Arabia. Judges Ahlam, from the United...
DAMASCUS: A senior U.N. official arrived in Syria Saturday for talks on a plan to suspend fighting between government and rebel forces in the country's second city Aleppo. Ramzi Ezzedine Ramzi, deputy to the U..N envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is to hold a series of meetings in...
(Reuters) - Islamic State fighters stormed a town in Iraq's western Anbar province on Saturday, killing at least 19 policemen and trapping others inside their headquarters, in the latest attack in the desert region where it controls large amounts of territory, officials said....
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Coalition’s Ambassador to Doha, Nizar al-Hiraki, ended the controversy about renewing Syrian passports, as he confirmed that Syrian passports' renewal would take place in the Embassy and...
(Reuters) - Islamic State's self-declared police force in western Syria decapitated four men after accusing them of blasphemy, a rights group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday. The men were beheaded in the countryside east of the city of Homs by the militant...
Suspected Taliban militants shot dead 12 anti-landmine workers in Afghanistan ’s southern Helmand province Saturday, Afghan police said. According to provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Obaid, suspected Taliban riding motorbikes opened fire on the workers at...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State has carried out the punishment of Al-Rajem “Stoning to death” on charge of “adultery” against married man and woman on the outskirts of Manbej city in the Northern Eastern countryside of...
Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Interim Prime Minister, Ahmed Tomeh, confirms that legal renewal stickers are available in the Coalition’s Embassy in Doha, as those stickers are recognized by the...
Genel Energy is due to begin transferring Iraqi natural gas to Turkey by the end of 2017, and its volume thereafter will rise year on year, said Mehmet Sepil, president of Genel Energy. The Turkish Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz...
(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday the United States was seeking to defuse tensions over proposed U.N. resolutions to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during talks in Europe next week. Kerry will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in...
ARSAL, Lebanon: The sister-in-law of ISIS commander Anas Sharkas, better known by his nom de guerre Abu Ali al-Shishani, has been arrested in the Bekaa Valley, her husband told The Daily Star Friday. Mohammad Sharkas, brother of Abu Ali al-Shishani, told The Daily Star that...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels using improvised mortar bombs made of cooking gas canisters killed 311 civilians between July and December this year, a monitoring group said on Friday, condemning the use of the wildly inaccurate weapons. Two-thirds of the...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies carried out 27 airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq in the past three days, U.S. military officials said on Friday. Fighting positions, buildings and fortifications were hit in seven attacks...
The scourge of HIV/ AIDS is being overlooked in South Sudan, activists warn, as the government and civil society remain focused on other problems caused by the country's year-long political crisis. "The problem is, there's no proper system of treatment for those living with...
The “solution process” to end Turkey's 40-year conflict with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is advancing positively and no one will be able to disturb this process, the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said. Addressing Turkish businessmen on Friday...
(Reuters) - A Palestinian man threw a chemical substance believed to be acid at an Israeli family in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring a man and four children, Israeli police and the military said. The assailant was shot and wounded immediately after the attack, which...
