Efforts to forge a political deal between Kurdish-led authorities in northern Syria and the Syrian regime are at a standstill and President Bashar Assad's ally Russia is to blame, a Syrian Kurdish official said late Thursday. The Kurdish-led authorities revived efforts to negotiate a...

U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday stressed the need for diplomacy in getting U.S. nuclear talks with North Korea back on track after a failed summit between the U.S. and North Korean leaders in February. In Oval Office remarks, Trump was asked by...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish Coast Guard rescued an unidentified child after a boat’s drown.  The child was traveling with his family to the Mytilene Greek Island and was taken to a Turkish hospital. Amer Abu Taim, an activist who works as a driver in Izmir and helps...

Algerians need look no further than Egypt for a glimpse of how difficult any transition could be if they put off painful economic measures. In the four years after the 2011 ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt halved its foreign reserves while economic growth all but ground to a halt;...