
SYRIA
'UK, France Syria strikes doomed to fail'
President Assad says airstrikes by the UK and France in Syria will yield no results.

President Assad says airstrikes by the UK and France in Syria will yield no results.

Pro- and anti-refugee protesters take to the streets in the German towns of Schifferstadt and Ohringen.

French people start voting in regional elections, with the far-right National Front party expected to gain huge gains.

Afghan forces have killed about 40 Daesh Takfiri militants during separate operations in the eastern province of Nangarhar.

The US uses the technique of “organized psychopathy” to control the masses, an American writer and political analyst says.

The Iranian Parliament speaker says unauthorized military intervention in the Middle East conflicts will only help spread terrorism.

Negotiations to build oil refineries in Europe to process Iranian crude are on verge of finalization, a news agency says.

The governor of Yemen’s southern province of Aden is reportedly killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack.

At least 16 people are killed as a commuter train and a minibus collide in the Indonesian capital city of Jakarta.

Some 1,500 Moroccan soldiers are to join the Saudi war on Yemen, Moroccan media say.

The United States is rethinking its strategy on combating domestic terror, according to a report.

Israeli military forces shoot and injure a Palestinian teenage boy in the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum.

A Tel Aviv supermarket cooperative decides to ban products from settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Nigeria detains a dozen Boko Haram suspects in and around the capital, Abuja.

The Greek parliament passes the 2016 budget featuring tax increases and spending cuts.

An Iranian deputy foreign minister says deployment of Turkish troops to Iraq endangers regional security.

John Kerry has criticized Israel over its illegal settlement activities in the Palestinian occupied territories.

Syrian army troops deal major blows to Takfiri militants across the crisis-hit Arab country.