By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- An exclusive video footage obtained by Zaman al-Wasl shows the artifacts of Palmyra Museum that were displayed in its halls and courtyards and those stored in the museum warehouse. The footage was filmed in spring 2015 while the Islamic State forces...

A contractor for France's National Front party who's close to far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been handed preliminary charges in an investigation into the financing of political campaigns in 2014 and 2015. The Paris' prosecutor's office confirmed Saturday that Frederic...

A Cairo court acquitted one of deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's closest aides in a retrial in a corruption case, state news agency MENA reported Saturday. While courts have absolved several Mubarak-era officials, they have been handing down lengthy sentences to liberal and Islamist...

A female reporter working for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw was killed Saturday covering the fighting between government forces and ISIS in Mosul, her channel said. "Prominent Rudaw war reporter and journalist Shifa Gardi has been killed in Mosul as she covered clashes," Rudaw said on social...

A ceasefire went into force early Saturday in the Libyan capital after two days of fighting between rival gunmen injured nine people and forced residents to cower indoors, the government said. The fighting between two rival armed groups in eastern Tripoli erupted Thursday after one accused...

Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane believes opponents raise their game when facing the European champions after suffering a shock defeat to Valencia in midweek. Madrid spurned the chance to extend their one-point lead over Barcelona at the top of the table as they conceded twice to a Valencia...

Malaysia plans to sweep one of the terminals at Kuala Lumpur international airport for toxic chemicals after Kim Jong Nam was murdered there with a nerve agent last week. The teams involved include the police forensic team, the fire department and the Atomic Energy Licensing Board, the...

 U.S.-backed Iraqi forces pushed deeper into western Mosul Saturday after retaking the city's airport from ISIS and punching into built-up areas of the extremists' last major stronghold in the country. Troops advanced in several more populated, built-up southern districts and about...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was in Baghdad for talks Saturday, the first such visit by a chief diplomat from the kingdom in years, Iraqi officials said. He met his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a foreign ministry official told AFP on condition of anonymity. Another...

U.S. President Donald Trump's push against ISIS in Syria could present him with an unenviable choice: Alienate NATO ally Turkey by relying on Kurdish fighters or adopt a plan that may slow the assault and require many more U.S. combat forces. The objective of the coming U.S.-backed offensive...

An Afghan official says that 10 police officers and the wife of a police commander have been killed by ISIS militants in northern Zawzjan province. Mohammad Reza Ghafori, spokesman for the Zawzjan provincial governor, said Saturday that the police officers were ambushed Friday as they were...

Hundreds of Christians are fleeing Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula as the Islamic State affiliate there has increasingly targeted the community in recent weeks, according to witnesses, clergy and human rights activists. In the past month alone, suspected Islamic State militants have killed...

Malaysia said on Saturday it would issue an arrest warrant for a North Korean diplomat wanted for questioning over the murder of Kim Jong Nam if he doesn't voluntarily cooperate with the police. "Reasonable" time will be given for the diplomat to come forward before police take further...

Plans for the first contact between North Korea and the United States after President Donald Trump took office were canceled after the U.S. State Department denied a visa for the top envoy from Pyongyang, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. The talks, between senior North Korean...

Citigroup Inc (C.N) on Friday said that U.S. government and regulatory agencies are investigating the bank's hiring practices. U.S. agencies, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are looking into whether or not the bank hired candidates "referred by or related to foreign...

The first U.N.-led Syria peace talks in almost a year are in danger of getting lost in procedure, as officials obsess about who will meet whom, but behind the scenes diplomats say it's largely up to Russia to call the tune. Russia and the United States were the prime movers behind the last...

The United States provided intelligence to Iraq for airstrikes it conducted inside Syria in retaliation for recent bomb attacks in Baghdad, the Pentagon said Friday. Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi said he had ordered the Iraqi air force to strike ISIS positions inside Syria. "Yes...

Armed groups traded fire with heavy weapons in the center of Tripoli, injuring at least nine people and paralyzing the Libyan capital, residents and the Red Crescent said Friday. "Our team ... rescued nine people injured in the indiscriminate firing," said the Libyan Red Crescent, which has...

ISIS Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed dozens of people near Syria's Al-Bab just hours after rebels seized the town from the extremists. In a statement distributed online, the group said its suicide bomber "drove his car bomb into the middle of a gathering of...

Russia will use its veto to block a draft U.N. resolution imposing sanctions on Syria for the use of chemical weapons, the deputy ambassador said Friday. "I just explained our position very clearly to our partners. If it is tabled we will veto it," Vladimir Safronkov told reporters following...