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Authorities pursue 3 car bombs, destroy 2 before reaching their targets in Damascus

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Authorities pursue 3 car bombs, destroy 2 before reaching their targets in Damascus

Damascus, SANA – After pursuing three car bombs, the authorities destroyed two of them at the Airport Road roundabout area in Damascus, while the third car bomb was surrounded in Bab Touma area where the suicide bomber driving it detonated it, killing and injuring a number of civilians. In a statement, the Interior Ministry said […]

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VIDEO: Al-Qaeda hostage victim Johan Gustafsson’s first words back home in Sweden

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VIDEO: Al-Qaeda hostage victim Johan Gustafsson’s first words back home in Sweden

Swede Johan Gustafsson, who was recently freed after being held hostage by al-Qaeda in Mali since 2011, has spoken publicly for the first time since his release. “A few days ago I was alone and isolated in the Sahara. Today I am here together with my family. I am home,” he says in a video […]

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Saudi UN envoy says Qatar insists on supporting terrorism

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Saudi UN envoy says Qatar insists on supporting terrorism

Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations, Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, has said that Qatar is still insisting on destabilizing the security of Saudi Arabia and the region and to support terrorism, which poses threats to the entire world. “Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt made a sovereign decision to boycott Qatar […]

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Police break up clashes between African migrants in Calais

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Police break up clashes between African migrants in Calais

Riot police stepped in to break up clashes among some 100 African migrants armed with sticks and rocks in the northern French city of Calais on Saturday, local police said, following similar brawls the night before. The fighting pitting Eritreans against Ethiopians left 16 migrants injured and around 10 have been arrested, police official Etienne […]

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Non-Muslim couples to be able to marry and divorce through their churches in the UAE

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Non-Muslim couples to be able to marry and divorce through their churches in the UAE

Non-Muslim couples will be able to get married and divorced through churches of their own faith, rather than Abu Dhabi courts and Sharia. Couples will be able to have one of their religious leaders carry out mediation out of court, after which they reconcile or divorce. Christian leaders are in talks with the Abu Dhabi […]

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Washington Times: Intervention of U.S. and Israel in Syria becomes inevitable

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Washington Times: Intervention of U.S. and Israel in Syria becomes inevitable

(Syria News) The Washington Times published an article about the U.S. and Israeli direct intervention in Syria, after the latest military development in the country. The online newspaper reported, “When the U.S. Air Force shot down one of Bashar Assad’s fighter planes the United States made the first direct intervention in the war, where it […]

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Mexico: 19 gang members killed in overnight clashes

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Mexico: 19 gang members killed in overnight clashes

Officials attribute incident to warring drug gang members responsible for recent violence in Sinaloa state. At least 19 people have been killed in clashes involving armed men and security forces in the gang-plagued northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, authorities said. Sinaloa has seen a dramatic spike of homicides following the capture and extradition of convicted drug […]

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5 North Koreans Found in South’s Waters Appear to Be Defectors

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5 North Koreans Found in South’s Waters Appear to Be Defectors

SEOUL, South Korea — Five North Koreans crossed into South Korean waters in a boat on Saturday, sailing across a heavily guarded maritime border between the two nations in what appeared to be an attempt to flee the North, South Korean Coast Guard officials said. The North Koreans — four men and one woman — […]

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Talks in Paris on Sunday on Italy’s migrant crisis

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Talks in Paris on Sunday on Italy’s migrant crisis

The interior ministers of France, Germany and Italy will meet in Paris on Sunday to discuss a “coordinated approach” to help Italy deal with hordes of migrants arriving in its ports, a source said. Italy on Wednesday threatened to suddenly stop vessels from other countries disembarking migrants at its ports after rescuing them in the […]

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Europe pays tribute to Helmut Kohl, ‘a giant’ of post-war history AFP

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Europe pays tribute to Helmut Kohl, ‘a giant’ of post-war history AFP

European leaders joined with former US president Bill Clinton at an emotional tribute in Strasbourg on Saturday for former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, the father of German reunification and a founder of modern-day Europe. “A giant of the post-war period has left us,” European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said in an oration in French and […]

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