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King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia discussed developments in Syria, Iraq, Gaza and Libya with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, during Sisi's first visit to his regime's powerful ally since winning May elections. Sisi flew to the Red Sea city of Jeddah late on Sunday and held...
PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo police arrested 40 men on Monday on suspicion of having fought with Islamist insurgents in Syria and Iraq, a crackdown aimed at deterring recruitment of volunteer fighters, authorities in the small Balkan state said. They said explosives, weapons...
(Reporting by Abdullah Raja; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A member of the Central Committee of the Palestinian Fatah movement and Chief negotiator, Dr. Nabil Shaath, revealed to Zaman Alwasl that negotiation team to Cairo would not compromise and let...
SYDNEY: Senior U.S. officials said the Obama administration had begun directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who have started to make gains against Islamic militants in Iraq. The U.S. previously had insisted on only selling arms to the Iraqi government. The...
By Hamza Mustafa; Translation by Dani Murad Al-Qaeda group in Syria, al-Nusra Front is passing through its worst stages after a period can be described as "golden", started with the establishment of the Front in January 2012...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Aleppo’s military council has suspended all activities of its command room until further notice over allegation of lack of armament and power monopolizing by the council leader, operation room commander said. Abu Ahmed (Nom...
(Reuters- Exclusive) - Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some...
(Reuters) - Tayyip Erdogan was set to be Turkey's next president after local media credited the veteran prime minister with more than half the vote in a near-complete count and allies said Erdogan had won. After an election on Sunday that his opponents say may create an...
(Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza starting at 1700 ET, officials from the warring sides said. " Israel has accepted Egypt's proposal," a senior Israeli government official said, adding...
(Reporting by Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL-(Zaman Alwasl)- “For serious customers only” , a scarce picture of Sulaiman Qanoni, the Ottoman Sultan, looking for a buyer appreciates its value and effort to smuggle it from Syria. It is not a joke or a...
(Reuters) - Turks voted in their country's first presidential election on Sunday with Tayyip Erdogan poised to win and fulfill his dream of what he calls a "new Turkey " and what his opponents say will be an increasingly authoritarian nation. A victory for Erdogan would seal...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl)- Syrian capital's biggest square has witnessed first protest ever throughout 44 years of Assad's family rule when tens of people asked release of their relatives who held captive by Islamist rebel group in...
Ankara, Aug 10 (IANS) Turkey Saturday denied any involvement in the US air strikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS) sites in northern Iraq. "The US is using all its resources to bomb ISIS sites that it sees as a threat to its interests," Xinhua quoted Turkey's National...
RIYADH (Reuters) - An airplane carrying 40 passengers crashed in a residential area after taking off from Tehran's Mehrabad airport on Sunday morning, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported, citing a spokesman for the Iranian Red Crescent Society and its own reporter....
BEIRUT (AP) — Thousands of members of a religious minority group under attack by Islamic extremists have fled across the border from Iraq to seek refuge with the Kurds of northeastern Syria, said two Kurdish officials and an activist on Saturday. Ekrem Hasso and Juan Mohammad...
With American bombs again falling over Iraq—this time striking Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, recently renamed the “Islamic State”) positions near the Kurdish city of Irbil—the White House is finally bowing to the inevitable conclusion that this terror group poses a...
BEIRUT (AP) — A cleric read the verdict before the truck came and dumped a large pile of stones near the municipal garden. Jihadi fighters then brought in the woman, clad head to toe in black, and put her in a small hole in the ground. When residents gathered, the fighters told them...
At least 13 people were killed and 17 wounded in the raid on Maadi in northeastern Aleppo, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. In another part of the city, three children died and a dozen people were wounded when rebel rockets...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Rebels' Supreme Military Council in statement issued Saturday has dismissed its bloc in the Oppositions’ National Coalition, calling on key rebel factions in Syria to appoint a new 15-member bloc. According to the statement, seen by...
