Germany's next government must set exact targets for cutting CO2 emissions soon after September's national election to provide clarity for local governments and companies to plan, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday. Merkel said the goal of reducing emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050 from...

Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they recaptured Mosul's train station, once one of the country's main rail hubs and the latest in a series of key sites retaken from extremists. The forces launched a major push last month to oust ISIS from west Mosul, taking back a series of neighborhoods as...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Some Syrians see that the actor Jamal Suleiman is an opposition figure playing a political role while others see him as an opposition figure playing a national role. Zaman al-Wasl met with Suleiman for a candid interview which placed Syria as the eye of...

 A third round of Russian-backed talks on the Syrian war opened in the Kazakh capital Astana Tuesday without armed rebel groups, leaving little hope for a breakthrough in ending the six-year conflict. The talks, sponsored by government allies Russia and Iran and rebel-backer Turkey,...