Iran resumed uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow plant south of Tehran on Thursday in a new step back from its commitments under a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. Engineers began feeding uranium hexafluoride gas into the plant's mothballed enrichment centrifuges in "the first minutes...

Egyptian actor Haitham Ahmed Zaki, 35, son of late iconic actor Ahmed Zaki (1949 – 2005) and late actress Hala Fouad (1958 - 1993), has died in his apartment in Sheikh Zayed City, Giza, early on Thursday after suffering a sudden circulatory collapse.  Police received a report that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Over the past two weeks, public discontent spread as a result of looting and theft of civilian property by fractions affiliated to the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army in Ras al-Ain, a newly-captured town from US-backed Kurdish forces.  Abdul Razzaq, a...

Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as prime minister last week, had a positive meeting with leading politician Gebran Bassil on Wednesday and all ideas were discussed for getting the country out of economic crisis, a source close to Hariri said. Hariri’s resignation was prompted by an...

Lebanon’s banks are worried that a central bank deadline for compulsory capital increases is too tight as they grapple with the fallout from weeks of anti-government protests, banking sources familiar with the matter said. They said it was possible lenders might ask the banking regulator...

Striking Algerian judges returned to work Wednesday, a day after their main union announced an end to a mass 10-day walkout over alleged executive interference in the judiciary. Hearings resumed in Sidi M'hamed court, the main jurisdiction in Algiers, an AFP journalist said, while in second...

The oil extracted in northeastern Syria is being used by the local authorities for their own benefit, a senior State Department official said Wednesday, apparently contradicting President Donald Trump's suggestion last month that U.S. energy companies might operate them. During a news...

The new leader of the Islamic State group is "a nobody" with little apparent reputation but the United States hopes he will be killed soon, a US official said Wednesday. The group last week announced Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as its new leader after a US commando raid killed Abu...

Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live rounds into the air to disperse protesters in central Baghdad on Wednesday as the biggest wave of anti-government demonstrations in decades spread out across the capital. The shootings took place on or near three of Baghdad’s main bridges -...

 U.S. President Donald Trump's son published Wednesday the name of the alleged anonymous whistleblower whose complaint fired the impeachment inquiry against Trump, breaking strict conventions for protecting officials who reveal wrongdoing in government. Amid calls by the president...

Israel is assisting Syrian Kurds battered by a month-old Turkish incursion, seeing them as a counterweight to Iranian influence and advocating for them in talks with the United States, the deputy Israeli foreign minister said Wednesday. Ankara launched its assault targeting the Kurdish YPG...

Britain's five-week election campaign officially began Wednesday, when Parliament was dissolved ahead of the December 12 vote. However, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s campaign launch was marred by the resignation of one of his ministers, a gaffe about the victims of a deadly tower blaze and a...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday called on Iran to fulfill the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, but said Moscow understood why Tehran was cutting back on its commitments. Speaking to reporters in Moscow, Lavrov said events unfolding around the nuclear...

Turkey has captured a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, more than a week after the former Islamic State leader killed himself during a raid by U.S. special forces. “The United States said Baghdadi killed himself in a tunnel. They started a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has extended its control on the town of Kafr Takharim in northern Idlib province on Wednesday, following a 'surrender’ deal with rival jihadist group, accoridng to Zaman al-Wasl sources. Fighters of the former al-Qaeda group have...

Iraqi protesters have blocked the entrance to the Nassiriya oil refinery in the south, security and oil sources told Reuters Wednesday. The protesters blocked the tankers that transport fuel to gas stations from entering the refinery, which caused fuel shortages across Dhi Qar province, the...

Suspected separatist insurgents stormed a security checkpoint in Thailand's Muslim-majority south and killed at least 15 people, including a police officer and many village defence volunteers, security officials said Wednesday. It was the worst single attack in years in a restive region...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least six civilians were killed and twenty more wounded in regime airstrikes on opposition areas in northern Aleppo province, activists said Wednesday.     At least 20 others, including 7 children and 4 women, were also wounded in the attack in the...

Hundreds of schoolchildren led anti-government demonstrations across Lebanon on Wednesday, refusing to return to class before the demands of a nearly three-week-old protest movement are met. In the capital Beirut, dozens gathered in front of the education ministry, brandishing Lebanese...

Riyadh has an "open channel" with Yemen's Iran-backed rebels with the goal of ending the country's civil war, a Saudi official said Wednesday, weeks after the rebels offered to halt attacks on the kingdom. The comment comes after Saudi Arabia brokered a power sharing agreement between...