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(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called on Sunday for a renewed commitment to achieving Middle East peace, saying a lasting deal between Israel , the Palestinians and all their neighbors could be achieved. But prospects for a renewed peace process appeared dim as...

(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian troops to withdraw to their permanent bases after military exercises in Rostov region near the border with Ukraine , the Kremlin said, in a sign of some tension easing before a key meeting next week. The troop...

(Reuters) - Three car bombs killed 25 people at a government compound near Baquba city in Iraq on Sunday and the Anbar province police chief died on patrol when suspected Islamic State militants blew up his convoy, hospital and security sources said. Insurgents have been...

(Reuters) - The surge in child migration from Central America is receding but the United States is aggressively pushing ahead with plans to expand detentions, a little-publicized part of a broader campaign to deter illegal migrants. Under pressure from opposition Republicans to...

MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Kurdish fighters have been able to halt the advance of the Islamic State extremist group in the Syrian border town of Kobani, where the U.S.-led coalition has been carrying out airstrikes for more than two weeks, activists said Sunday. The coalition,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of al-Bukamal town on the border with Iraq said fighters of the Islamic Sate of Iraq and Sham have confiscated properties of Syrian expatriates who work in Gulf Arab states in respond to the participation of Gulf fighter jets in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime president has sacked two officers in the Military Intelligence in Homs, in response to the school bombing fallout days ago, activists said. Brigadier Abdul Karim al-Salloum, head the military Intelligence with the head...

  ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said the head of caretaker government will lead the new interim government due to Turkish-Qatari consensus. The ongoing meetings of key opposition group National Coalition since three days...

(Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Tripoli on Saturday to urge the warring factions fighting for control of Libya to make peace, in the highest-level visit since an armed faction took the capital in August. Oil producer Libya is struggling with two...

Reporting by Orwa   Sousi;   Translation by Yusra Ahmed  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists of the coastal city of Jeblah reported daily arresting and brutal abuses for Sunni sect by National Defense militia. The Phoenician city...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighters of key rebel group Islamic Front have stormed barracks of regime army near Safira Defence Factories south Aleppo, killing at least 15 troops, activists and Twitter feeds reported. Activists said rebels have taken...

(Al Arabiya News)- Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime took hostage 500 residents – mostly women and children – from a northern Aleppo village last week amid reports of mass rape, the opposition National Coalition has said. In a press statement, the...

(Reuters) - Kurdish forces defending Kobani urged a U.S.-led coalition to escalate air strikes on Islamic State fighters who tightened their grip on the Syrian town at the border with Turkey on Saturday. A group that monitors the Syrian civil war said the Kurdish forces...

(Reuters)- Tunisia has arrested some 1,500 suspected jihadists this year, Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa told Reuters, part of a security crackdown aimed at safeguarding the North African country's fragile transition to democracy. Among those held are hundreds of militants...

(Reuters) - An explosion near a military checkpoint in Yemen's southeastern Hadramawt region killed two soldiers and injured four others, a local official said, adding to a wave of attacks hitting the country at a moment of political turmoil. The blast took place on a public...

(Reuters) - A suicide attacker wearing a police uniform attacked a provincial police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing one officer and wounding four other people, an official said. The bombing in Helmand province is the latest by militants bent on...

(Reuters) - Turkey has agreed to support the training and equipping of moderate opposition groups in Syria , the U.S. State Department said on Friday, saying a U.S. military planning team would visit Ankara next week to further talks on the matter. " Turkey has agreed...

(Reuters) - The effectiveness of the U.S.-led coalition effort in Syria is under scrutiny as Islamic State fighters try to overrun a strategic Syrian town on Turkey's border. The United States and its allies, including Gulf states, have conducted more than 130 airstrikes in Syria...

By Omar Al Dimashqi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- As the Syrian revolution enters the fourth year, field hospitals, medical centers and medics have been a clear target for Syrian regime shelling.   Dr. Nada Mahroos, from...