PARIS, Nov 19 (Reuters) - France believes a second French militant appears on a beheading video released by Islamic State at the weekend, government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said on Wednesday. Officials said on Monday that one of the men shown...
(Reuters) - There is no trace of Shenzhen Lanhao Days Electronic Technology Co Ltd at its listed address in the beige and pink-tiled "Fragrant Villa" apartment complex in this southern Chinese city. The building's managers say they’ve never heard of it. But a...
(Reuters) - “Do you know how much it hurts to raise someone and watch them grow and suddenly they’re just gone?” says Ahmed Muthana, 57, a retired electronics engineer in Wales whose two sons Nasser, 20, and Aseel, 17, have gone to fight for Islamic State. Like any father of...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Violent clashes on Tuesday took place between Syrian regime forces and the Islamic battalions in Quneitra province amid reports of slow advances by the rebels, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
Spanish lawmakers on Tuesday urged their government to recognise Palestine as a state, albeit only when the Palestinians and Israel negotiate a solution to their long-standing conflict. The symbolic motion, which echoes similar votes last month in Britain and...
(Reuters) - Tighter security in Saudi Arabia has made it hard for Islamic State to target the government so the militants are instead trying to incite a sectarian conflict via attacks on the Shi'ite Muslim minority, the Saudi Interior Ministry said. Last week the Sunni...
(Reuters) - Security forces entered Iraq's largest refinery for the first time on Tuesday after months of battling Islamic State militants who had surrounded it, a police colonel said. Police sources said security forces were clearing out mines from the refinery complex and...
(Reuters) - Airbus is aiming to deliver the first A350 jetliner around Dec. 12, with customer Qatar Airways being the first recipient, a representative of the airline said on Tuesday. The A350, Airbus' newest plane and made with carbon-fiber composite fuselage, is a direct...
(Reuters) - Turkey could face an influx of 2-3 million more Syrian refugees if President Bashar al-Assad's forces or Islamic State insurgents advance around Aleppo, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. U.S. warplanes have been bombing Islamic State...
Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Al HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl) – Syrian social media pages, loyal to Bashar al-Assad, have circulated photos showing militants of Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards accompanied by...
(Reuters) - Iraq believes Islamic State militants have stolen more than one million tonnes of grain from the country's north and taken it to two cities they control in neighboring Syria , the agriculture minister has said. Falah Hassan al-Zeidan said in a statement...
(Reuters) - Kurdish fighters captured six buildings from Islamic State militants besieging the Syrian town of Kobani on Tuesday and seized a large haul of their weapons and ammunition, a group monitoring the war said. Islamic State has been trying to take control of the town,...
The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the recognized armed opposition group against the Bashar al-Assad in Syria, has ceased its resistance in Aleppo, Syria’s second biggest city, withdrawing its 14,000 militia from the city, a ranking Turkish security source told the Hürriyet Daily News on Nov....
(Reuters) - Two suspected Palestinian men armed with axes and knives killed four people in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, Israeli police and emergency services said, the deadliest such attack in the city in years. The attack took place...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The militant Islamic State group has killed 1,432 Syrians off the battlefield since the end of June when it declared a caliphate in the territory under its control, a group monitoring the war said on Monday. The killings included deaths by...
By Zaman staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed DAMASCUS (Zaman Al Wasl)- The severe siege on Eastern Ghouta in Damascus has reached to unbearable levels, and disturbance on many level. As a reaction, people sometimes demonstrated against monopoly, while...
(Syrian Observatory for Human Rights)- Dozens of employees of the Local Council in the city of Aleppo had staged a sit- in protesting on the obstruction of the Interim government to the local council mission in the city of Aleppo because of delaying to pay the salaries of...
Facebook administration has removed the official page of Zaman Al Wasl Arabic for the third time, saying its logo “ is not compatible with the Facebook community.” The blocked-page is a 3-year-old with more than 143 ,000 followers....
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The Syrian government has agreed "in principle" to the U.N. envoy's call for local cease-fires to try to ease the worst fighting in the country's civil war but needs more details before it can make a final decision, a Syrian official said Monday. The...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Families of the 18 regime army troops, who were beheaded by the Islamic State group according to video posted online on Sunday, have mourned their sons in their hometowns. The propaganda of terror carrying by ISIS had tended to show the faces of slain soldiers very...
