Hong Kong police said Saturday they have arrested three pro-democracy lawmakers over a brawl in parliament, deepening the city's crisis a day after the death of a student sent tensions soaring. The international finance hub has been upended by five months of huge and increasingly violent...

Nike says it is investigating claims by former runner Mary Cain that she suffered physical and mental abuse as a member of the Nike Oregon Project headed by disgraced coach Alberto Salazar. Cain, 23, was a high school prodigy who was tipped for middle-distance greatness. She qualified...

The United States on Friday demanded that the Syrian regime and its Russian allies stop air strikes in northwestern Syria, saying they had a pattern of attacking civilians. The US State Department said that attacks in the northwestern area over the previous two days had struck a school...

Turkey will not leave Syria until other countries pull out, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday, and Ankara will continue its cross-border offensive against Kurdish fighters until every one of them has left the region. Turkey launched its third military incursion...

Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric urged political leaders Friday to find a way out of the current cycle of anti-government protests and a subsequent security crackdown that has left more than 250 people dead, saying the country faces "great risks" if it continues. The protests continued...

 A U.N. backed panel on Syria will meet again in Geneva later in November, the U.N. Special Envoy said Friday, after it met for the first time seeking political reconciliation following 8-1/2 years of war. "The two co-chairs have agreed to meet here again in 14 days. The next round...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro Justice, a non-profit human rights organizations, held the launch of its first book “The Blacklist” on Monday evening, which collects all types of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the regime, with a list of the most important people who committed these...

Five civilians were killed in Russian airstrikes on residential areas of Syria's Idlib de-escalation zone, the Syrian civil defense agency, White Helmets, said on Friday. Three were killed in Rami village and another two in Maarshimshan, according to the agency. According to...

Turkey will begin to repatriate captured Daesh militants to their home countries as of Monday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu was quoted as saying by state media Friday. Turkey has long criticized its European allies for refusing to take back Daesh fighters who are their citizens, and...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwestern Iran early Friday, killing at least five people and injuring over 300 others, officials said. The temblor struck Tark county in Iran's Eastern Azerbaijan province at 2:17 a.m., Iran's seismological center said. The area is...

As U.S. troops beef up in eastern Syria to protect oil fields, residents hope their mission will bring stability and prosperity to the remote and resource-rich region —and keep the Syrian government out. Their hopes reflect the expectations being piled onto the operation, even as...

As Turkish forces invaded northern Syria in early October, supporters of the offensive launched a different kind of campaign — online. Dozens of images claiming to show Turkey's soldiers cuddling babies, feeding hungry toddlers and carrying elderly women spread across Twitter and Instagram...

Ivanka Trump on Friday echoed her father's view that the House impeachment investigation is an attempt to overturn the 2016 election. But, in an interview with The Associated Press, she parted ways with President Donald Trump by calling the identity of the impeachment whistleblower "not...

Kurdish spokesman, war monitor say Syrian protester has been killed after he was run over by Turkish military vehicle. AP

 Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, is opening the door to a 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, warning that the current field of candidates is ill equipped to defeat President Donald Trump. Bloomberg, who initially ruled out a 2020 run, has not...

An earthquake in northwestern Iran killed at least four people and injured 70 early on Friday, according to Iranian media reports quoting officials. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 5.8 quake struck at 2:17 a.m. (2247 GMT) 83 km (52 miles) southwest of Ardabil. Iran's IRNA...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of people in northern Idlib province went to streets Thursday, protesting Tahrir al-Sham’s offensive on Kafr Takharim town that left 8 civilians dead and took control from rival group.    The Syrian Revolution Coordination Committees called on the...

Jordan, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates have regularly violated the UN arms embargo imposed on Libya since 2011, according to a confidential report by UN experts. The three countries "routinely and sometimes blatantly supplied weapons with little effort to disguise the source," a...

Israel called on European nations to join the U.S. in pressuring Iran Thursday over its renewed uranium enrichment and what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls a secret atomic warehouse. Iran resumed uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow plant south of Tehran Thursday in the...

All 39 bodies found in a refrigerated truck outside London last month have now been identified as citizens of Vietnam, officials said on Thursday. Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security said it was now working to repatriate the 31 men and eight women discovered dead in the back of the truck...