Cristiano Ronaldo scored twice as Juventus bounced back from their first defeat of the season to beat Udinese 3-1 and move top of Serie A on Sunday. Ronaldo struck twice in the first half to make it five goals in four games as champions Juve move one point ahead of leaders Inter Milan ahead...

Turkey's president held a meeting on Sunday with the head of Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA).  The closed-door meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Fayez al-Sarraj took place in the Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul. On Nov. 7, Ankara and Tripoli-based...

Lebanon's Interior Minister Raya El-Hassan on Sunday ordered the country's security forces to open a "rapid and transparent" enquiry, after dozens of people in Beirut were wounded in clashes the night before. Security forces in the capital used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse...

Barrel bombs of Syrian regime helicopters killed a child and wounded seven people in northern Idlib province, the White Helmets said Sunday. The attack hit a bakery in the town of Maarshourin, which falls within a de-escalation zone where acts of aggression are explicitly prohibited,...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)-  One person was killed on Sunday when a landmine set off near the border town of Ras al-Ayn, local activists said.   Landmines were planted by the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the city, days before the Turkish forces and the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After his novel "The Road to Zaatari" that sparked outrage in literary circles, the Syrian novelist Mohamed Fathi Al-Miqdad publishes a new book titled "Above the Earth", in which he attempts to capture all crucial and historical details of the revolution, in his own form of...

Iraqi security forces arrested five people in connection with lynching a teenager in the capital Baghdad this week, according to the interior ministry on Sunday. On Thursday, angry mob killed the teenager whom they accused of shooting protesters and hung his body by his ankles from a...

The Libyan Embassy in Egypt on Sunday closed indefinitely, citing "security reasons". In a statement, the embassy said it has suspended its activities until "further notice". The embassy, however, did not give any reason for the closure, but Egypt's official MENA news agency cited...

Turkey’s counter-terrorism efforts do not target any specific ethnicities in northern Syria, but focus solely on the terror groups, the defense minister said on Sunday. Hulusi Akar’s remarks came at the 19th Doha Forum held in Qatar where he delivered remarks on international efforts...

 Air pollution forced schools to close Sunday in parts of Iran including Tehran, as the capital lay under a thick cloud of smog considered hazardous to health. The pollution level in the capital was "unhealthy for sensitive groups" and officials warned the young, elderly and people...

The Trump administration will announce as early as this week plans to withdraw around 4,000 troops from Afghanistan, US media reported. Talks between the United States and the Taliban resumed a week ago as the parties sought a path to reduce violence or even reach a ceasefire. They were...

Britain's main opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn apologised Sunday for waging a disastrous campaign that handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a mandate to take the UK out of the EU next month. But the veteran socialist defended his far-left platform and blamed the media for helping relegate...

At 16, Maram is as old as the political system she and fellow Iraqi youth are railing against. But the spunky teen has her own way of protesting: inking tattoos. In the blue-tinged light inside a tarp tent, the petite teenager carefully moves her mechanised tattoo pen across the left...

Turkey moved closer to military support for Libya’s internationally recognized government late on Saturday when a bilateral deal was sent to parliament that includes provisions for launching a “quick reaction force” if requested by Tripoli. Late last month, Ankara and Tripoli signed an...

Malaysia's health authorities Sunday said they are working with UNICEF to bring polio vaccines to the state of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, where the country's first polio case in nearly three decades was detected last week. A three-month-old infant was diagnosed with polio on Dec. 6 after...

At least 14 people died after a bus carrying pilgrims veered off a highway and rolled down a steep slope in central Nepal Sunday, officials said, the latest deadly traffic accident in the Himalayan nation. Police said the bus carrying 32 passengers plunged 70 metres onto a lower stretch of...

Protesters and police were injured as a result of clashes in Lebanon's capital as demonstrators continue to demand a change in government.  A large group of protesters tried to march to parliament Saturday where talks about establishing a new government are to begin Monday. But...

Nine Houthis rebels were killed in an attack against Yemen government forces in Yemen, authorities said Sunday. Military spokesman for the Yemeni Joint Forces on the West Coast, Wadah Al-Dabish, told Anadolu Agency that 17 rebels were also injured in the attack on the Ad Durayhimi district...

A powerful earthquake struck near the Philippines city of Davao Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, the latest tremor to strike the southern part of the country in recent months, causing damage to buildings but no tsunami. The magnitude 6.8 quake was centred 61 km (38 miles) southwest...

Jamaican psychology student Toni-Ann Singh was crowned Miss World 2019 Saturday at a ceremony in London, with Miss France and Miss India runners-up in the beauty pageant. "To that little girl in St. Thomas, Jamaica and all the girls around the world - please believe in yourself," Singh, 23,...