
SYRIA
'Hasakah blasts death toll tops 50'
Some 50 to 60 people are killed in a triple car bomb attack in northeastern Syria.

Some 50 to 60 people are killed in a triple car bomb attack in northeastern Syria.

Dozens of people are killed in attacks on army barracks in the capital of Burundi.

President Vladimir Putin says any targets threatening Russian forces in Syria must be immediately destroyed.

Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani calls on the government to show "no tolerance" towards any side that violates the country's sovereignty.

British police say they have shot a man during an "intelligence-led" operation in northern London.

British MPs have grilled former Prime Minister Tony Blair about his policies towards Libya.

Another black man has died in police custody, this time in North Carolina.

A British parliamentary committee has called for establishing an independent panel to devise a new funding formula for police.

Libya’s rival parliaments meet in Tunisia to discuss a UN-brokered deal for a unity government.

An imprisoned Saudi blogger convicted for criticizing Saudi Arabia’s official Wahhabi ideology is on hunger strike.

The first plane transporting 163 Syrian refugees lands in Toronto, Canada.

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement has confirmed its participation at UN peace talks in in Switzerland next week.

A white police officer in Oklahoma City is found guilty of sexually assaulting 13 black women.

Iran submits to the United Nations an updated version of WAVE resolution.

A building of a prominent Muslim advocacy group in the US has been evacuated after receiving a suspicious envelope deemed as a serious threat.

Rifts have overshadowed a meeting of opposition groups, including militants linked to Daesh terrorists, in the Saudi capital.

North and South Korean officials hold high-level talks to ease tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

Turkey’s president says the Turkish troops recently deployed to Iraq will not be leaving the Arab country for the time being.