(Reuters) - A Tunisian soldier was killed after Islamist militants tried to storm an army base early on Sunday in the town of Sbitla near the Algerian border, the Tunisian government said on Sunday. Militant assaults on the Tunisian army have become more frequent in recent...
(Reuters) - The Lebanese army advanced on Monday into a border town attacked by Islamists at the weekend in the most serious spillover of the three-year-old Syrian civil war into Lebanon, and the Beirut government said the deadly assault would not go unpunished. With army...
n">(Reuters) - Bank shares are helping Wall Street on Monday after the previous week's fall, following a rescue deal for Portugal's largest listed lender and supported also by earnings from companies such as Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKb.N ). Berkshire shares are up 1 percent...
(Reuters) - Glass and debris littered the road to Ahed Marouf's house in a northern Gaza town on Monday as he rode on a donkey cart with his wife and three children to check on their home during a seven-hour truce declared by Israel. What they saw when they reached Beit...
(Zaman Alwasl)- At least 7 people belong to the same family were killed east Hama province when fighters of al-Qaeda splinter group stormed their village near al-Salamiyah city on Sunday, a monitoring group said. The Islamic State fighters have attacked...
Reporting by Faris Al RiFai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Mohammed al-Hamwi, a five years old Syrian boy from Hama countryside, has a major deformation in his body, he has a third arm with fingers, situated at his buttock. The deformation has started to...
(Al Jazeera)- Israel has announced it will be holding its fire in parts of Gaza for seven hours on Monday, amid world outrage over a deadly strike on a UN school entrance in the Palestinian territory. The limited and unilateral truce came after world powers fiercely...
(Reporting by Abdullah Raja; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Alwasl)- Palestine’s representative in the United Nation, reveals that Western countries, the great nations in particular have put an essential rule prevents judging Israel in the...
BAGHDAD, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Islamic State Sunni insurgents have captured the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and a nearby oil field after a battle with Kurdish forces who had control of the area, witnesses said on Sunday. Islamic State, which staged a lightning advance through...
Translation by Dani Murad (Zaman Alwasl)- Appearing in an interview with Al Jazeera news channel, The Palestinian thinker Dr. Azmi Bishara renewed his predictions of the failure of Israel’s aggression on Gaza, which according to him will eventually...
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A United Nations school sheltering displaced people in the southern Gaza Strip was hit Sunday by what a U.N. official said appeared to be an Israeli airstrike, as the military struck the Hamas-ruled territory despite signaling a possible scaling back of its...
PARIS (Reuters) - French police on Friday arrested a Franco-Moroccan man they described as an Islamist militant at Roissy international airport on suspicion that he was part of a conspiracy to carry out attacks in France. The man, whose name and age were not made public, had just...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels who crossed into Lebanon and raided a border town have killed eight Lebanese soldiers, the military said Sunday, as clashes there continued overnight in the most serious spillover yet in the tiny country from its neighbor's civil war. The fighting took...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Key rebel groups in Aleppo province and Syria Sunday agreed to form a military council to unite all revolutionary efforts amid rapid advances of regime's army. 18 rebel groups in Syria, including Islam Army and Soqour al-Sham...
Syrian troops backed by Lebanon’s Hezbollah killed at least 50 jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Al-Qaeda-affiliate Al-Nusra Front late Friday, activists said on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Islamists clashed Friday...
The Daily Star - The Lebanese Army vowed Saturday to confront what it said was a systematic plan to target Lebanon and its military, saying it would prevent anyone from moving Syria's battle into the country. "What happened today is the most dangerous incident Lebanon and the...
Pioneering device facilitates doctor-patient interface A robot promises to change the way doctors and patients interact in certain UAE hospitals. A next-generation robot, called VGo, is now being used to enhance patient-doctor interface and help manage hospitals better....
The festive spirit of Eid Al-Fitr continued through the weekend with a huge turnout of families at Jeddah's waterfront as authorities intensified patrols and rescue operations to keep the crowds under control and to save holidaymakers from the dangers of the sea. Thousands of people...
New Delhi, Aug 1 (IANS) As the Gaza conflict shows no immediate signs of let-up and the number of deaths, including of scores of children, mount to over 1,400, a concerned India is planning to send $1 million to a UN fund to provide aid to the suffering Palestinians fleeing the...
An explosion has killed 68 people and injured 187 at a Chinese factory that makes wheels for US carmakers, including General Motors, state media said. The blast happened in Kunshan, a city in the eastern Jiangsu province, on Saturday morning. A preliminary...
