Lionel Messi's Argentina beat Netherlands 4-2 in a penalty shootout in Sao Paulo to reach the World Cup final for the first time since 1990. Lionel Messi's Argentina beat Netherlands 4-2 in a penalty shootout in Sao Paulo on Wednesday...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on a United Arab Emirates company for supplying specialty petroleum products to the Syrian government, and blacklisted two additional Syrian companies. Pangates, based in Sharjah in the UAE, supplied...
Damascus, July 9 (IANS) As many as 20 fighters from the Islamic State (IS), formerly known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria, were killed Wednesday morning in Syrian airstrikes on the northern city of al-Raqqa, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Veteran Italian-Swedish diplomat Staffan de Mistura has been chosen by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to replace Lakhdar Brahimi as the international point man on Syria, U.N. diplomats said Wednesday. The diplomats, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian armed forces have taken strategic ground around Aleppo this week, residents and state media said on Wednesday, squeezing the main rebel supply line into the city after months of battlefield gains by Damascus. The government advance, after close to...
Hundreds of tonnes of chemicals “likely” to have been used by Syria to make the deadly nerve gas sarin were exported by British firms in the 1980s, Foreign Secretary William Hague said Wednesday. Hague said the chemicals, which can be used legitimately for making plastics and...
(AP)- Before she began working as a hairdresser, poverty forced Syrian Umm Mahmoud to seek donations for food and rent money to survive as a refugee in Lebanon. Often men suggested she have sex with them to show her gratitude, the 32-year-old said. Her experiences echo among Syrian...
Tel Aviv (Al Jazeera)- The Israeli army carried out 160 airstrikes in Gaza overnight, escalating a bombardment that has killed at least 27 Palestinians and wounded more than 100. Local media reported on Wednesday morning that one of the airstrikes targeted the house of a...
(Reuters) - Only four percent of Syria ns believe Islamic State insurgents, who have captured large swathes of Syria and Iraq, represent their interests, according to research conducted by a British polling group published on Wednesday. The survey, conducted by Opinion...
When North Vietnam invaded South Vietnam and overran its army, most observers and analysts expected a bloodbath to follow. The Vietnam War had been going on for a long time and the communist insurgents had suffered enormous losses, as well as inflicted considerable damage on...
At least 14 people, among them women, were killed by Syrian rebels in the village of Khatab in central Hama province overnight, state media and an NGO said Wednesday. Syrian state television said rebels carried out a...
(Zaman Alwasl)- Opposition activists say Daoud brigade fighters have evacuated their stronghold in Sarmeen in Idlib to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Raqa province as ISIS declared an Islamic caliphate, days ago. In January, Daoud brigade pledged...
Al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda group in Syria, has withdrawn from Aleppo's Sharia Authority over lack of concord with main rebel alliance in the northern Province , according to statement issued Tuesday. Activists warnof further rifts between rebels...
(Reuters) - One night last week, Islamic State militants in an SUV with tinted windows pulled up at the home of a former Iraqi army officer, one of the men they see as an obstacle to their goal of establishing a caliphate from Iraq to the Mediterranean. As the retired...
Brazil's World Cup dream was smashed into oblivion as majestic Germany ran riot to win an extraordinary semi-final 7-1. Brazil's World Cup dream was smashed into oblivion as majestic Germany ran riot to win an extraordinary...
(Reuters) - Germany has tightened security at its airports after U.S. authorities said they were concerned that al Qaeda operatives in Syria and Yemen were developing bombs that could be smuggled onto planes. Germany's interior ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that...
(By Ma’moon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Dani Murad) Since the infamous pictures of pro-regime women stealing blankets and furniture from old neighborhoods in Homs, and some political figures affiliated with the coalition have been trying with all...
(Reuters) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran would need to significantly increase its uranium enrichment capacity, highlighting a gap in positions between Tehran and world powers as they hold talks aimed at clinching a nuclear accord. Iran and six major powers...
(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urged countries in Europe and elsewhere on Tuesday to do more to keep their own citizens from traveling to Syria to fight, saying the world cannot allow Syria to become a training ground for violent extremists. In a speech in...
