The shock announcement of Afghanistan's first woman fixed-wing pilot to seek asylum in the US has touched off a spirited national debate on the country's most vexing issues: insecurity, women's rights and mass exodus of young people. Niloofar Rahmani, a 25-year-old pilot lionised widely as...

Chile's government set to work on Monday repairing roads and restoring electricity to southern regions affected by a major earthquake that struck on Christmas Day, frightening thousands but resulting in no fatalities or major damage. The quake, a magnitude 7.6 centered off Chiloe Island...

Benjamin Netanyahu has been unrelenting in his criticism of the Obama administration over what he condemned as its "shameful" decision not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a halt to Israeli settlement-building. But with the clock ticking down on Barack Obama's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In Hasaka  this year, Christmas celebration for the Syriac and Assyrians were restricted to big cities only, while usual greetings and visits were too limit, and celebrations almost disappeared from villages of Khabour river in Western North countryside of the city due to...