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(Reuters) - Hurricane Gonzalo slammed into Bermuda on Friday, knocking out most of the electricity as it lashed the tiny Atlantic island chain with pounding surf, torrential rain and howling wind, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. The strongest storm to sweep...
(Reuters) - Yemeni Shi'ite Houthi fighters and supporters of the Sunni Moslem party Islah clashed in central Yemen on Saturday, residents and local officials said, another sign of sectarian warfare in the violence-prone country that borders Saudi Arabia . Saturday's fighting in...
BEIRUT ( Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman Al Wasl has met with number of Syrian refugees who were arrested with other 450 last weeks by Lebanese Army after storming their makeshifts in border town of Arsal. The refugees said they had been through savage arrest...
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed a former White House adviser as Ebola "czar" on Friday and named officials to bolster the response to the disease in Texas, the center of U.S. Ebola cases, as the death toll in three West African nations topped 4,500. The White...
(By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish President Rajab Tayib Erdogan expressed his surprise from the Syrian Opposition’s performance, in particular the disagreements among its political and military...
Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Inclusion of the Kurdish language in the curriculum for grade-1 of schools in al-Hasakah, delayed the start of teaching in primary schools in the city as a result of teachers’...
(IANS/EFE) At least eight Islamist rebels died when a car bomb exploded near one of their bases in the northern Syrian province of Idleb, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported Friday. The London-based NGO said that the attack took place Thursday near a...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air raids on Friday struck the city of Douma east Damascus, killing 18 people including 5 children and one woman, Local Coordination reported. Douma Coordination said that regime air forces carried out 3 raids on the key...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A video posted online by rebels' supporters showed number of Syrian regime slain soldiers in Qalamoun Mountains as Islamist fighters took control of their military base on the Lebanese border last Monday. The fighters al-Asala Front...
(Reuters) - Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time that the militant group had taken to the air. The group, which has...
( Davidson Website )- Like thousands in her home country of Syria, artist Etab Hreib is intimately familiar with the consequences of violent conflict – her son was recently arrested and imprisoned by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and her house in Syria robbed. Hreib, who grew...
(Reporting by Maher Radhwan; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sugar production in Syria fell to less than a fifth this year compared to 4 years ago, 250 thousand tons of sugar beet were processed, it was the lowest in 50 years....
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Bahraini activist who is eight months pregnant was detained for "insulting" the king after she tore up his photograph in court, a human rights organization said Thursday. Human Rights Watch said Zainab al-Khawaja appeared before a Bahraini...
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Egypt's military involvement in Libya underlines Cairo's concerns about the threat posed by Islamic militant groups operating near the two nations' porous border, as well as home-grown jihadis who rely on their Libyan comrades for weapons. Above all, Egypt aims...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dusty and remote, the Syrian city of Kobani has become an unlikely spoil in the war against Islamic State militants — and far more of a strategic prize than the United States wants to admit. Perched on Turkey's border, the city of about 60,000 has been...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of refugees in Iraq and Syria, fleeing attacks by Islamic State, will be given emergency winter kits to help them cope with the approach of cold, rainy weather, an international aid agency said on Thursday....
GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday it had delivered its first medical supplies in a year to Palestinian refugees living in a camp in the Damascus suburb of Yarmouk in Syria. Around 20,000 people are...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air raids struck targets east of Damascus and further north Thursday, killing 14 people including six children, AFP reported. Ten people were killed, including a woman and two children, in Jisrin, to the east of Damascus....
Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Al HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 fighters of Islamic State militant group have been killed on Thursday in the ongoing clashes with Kurdish forces near Ras al-Ayn town in the western...
