(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three women were killed and four children wounded Friday when the regime's artillery fire struck Jisr al-Shughour region in northern Idlib province, activists said. The attack on the de-escalation zone is the second in 48 hours. Artillery...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 regime forces have been killed by a landmine in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, sources said  Friday . The attack took place near the town of Al Ashara in the eastern countryside. Rebels and jihadists have killed more than 130,000...

Women's rights, gun control and climate change have drawn masses of demonstrators into the streets during President Donald Trump's first term, but one prominent cause has been missing so far: impeachment. Though some liberal groups have been advocating for Trump's impeachment for more...

Pentagon chief Mark Esper says the United States is considering sending American troops and armored vehicles to help protect oil fields in northeastern Syria controlled by U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds. Esper says at a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels that the U.S. wants to...

Iraqi security officials say one protester has been shot and killed during demonstrations in the capital of Baghdad. The officials say the protester was killed near the gate leading to the city's heavily fortified Green Zone. It's the first death in the new round of anti-government...

LONDON (AP) — European Union ambassadors agreed Friday that the bloc should grant Britain's request for another extension to the Brexit deadline but have not yet figured out how long that delay should be. Speaking Friday in Brussels after EU ambassadors met with the EU Brexit chief...

As Russian and Turkish leaders divvy up security roles in northeast Syria following an abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal, President Donald Trump is focused on oil fields elsewhere in the war-torn country. Trump spurred a fresh wave of criticism Thursday with a tweet noting that he had spoken...

In an unmarked villa, nestled amid homes in an upscale Dubai neighborhood, a congregation prays in the first fully functioning synagogue in the Arabian Peninsula in decades. Though its members keep its precise location secret, the synagogue's existence and the tacit approval it has...

Fresh anti-government protests erupted in Iraq on Friday, with at least two deaths reported after Iraqi police fired live rounds into the air along with tear gas canisters to disperse thousands of protesters in Baghdad. Iraqi police fired live shots into the air and dozens of tear gas...

Anti-government rallies have renewed across Iraq, the second phase of protests that turned deadly earlier this month and which could balloon after the endorsement of populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Iraq was rocked by demonstrations in early October, first denouncing corruption and...

Around 300 more Russian military police from the southern Russian region of Chechnya have arrived in Syria, the defence ministry said Friday, Interfax news agency reported. The military police will patrol specific regions and help with the withdrawal of Kurdish forces and their weapons...

Turkey is forcibly sending Syrian refugees to an area of Syria near the border where it aims to set up a "safe zone" even though the conflict there has not ended, Amnesty International said in a report published Friday. Turkey currently hosts some 3.6 million refugees who fled Syria's...

A ceasefire in northeast Syria seems to be holding "by and large", as major powers gather in Geneva ahead of the first meeting of Syria's Constitutional Committee next week, the U.N. Special Envoy told Reuters on Thursday. Geir Pedersen said that envoys from 7 Arab and Western states...

Turkish forces and their allies attacked Syrian regime troops in northeastern Syria on Thursday, killing some of them, and they also clashed with Kurdish-led fighters, the state-run news agency and a war monitoring group said. The fighting underscored the risks of violence as multiple and...

The UN said Thursday it would send a special mission to Chile to investigate allegations of human rights abuses, as the South American country is rocked by deadly anti-government protests. "Having monitored the crisis in Chile since it began, I have decided to send a verification mission to...

(Zaman Al Wasl-AA)- Assad regime attacked a marketplace in de-escalation zone in embattled Syrian province of Idlib, according to the Syrian civil defense agency White Helmets on Thursday. At least ten people were killed and 14 more wounded during the artillery attack in the town of...

There were moments during the days-long Turkish siege of a Syrian hospital that Raman Ouso did not think he would get out alive. The 27-year-old nurse was part of a small team of medics that stayed to help the wounded in the town of Ras al-Ain in northern Syria earlier this month despite an...

Days after the global cinema release of the film 'Joker', the distinctive face of the titular comic-book villain began appearing in political demonstrations all over the world. It's still an underground phenomenon, but does this represent a new form of protest like the wearing of the ‘V for...

French media firms said Thursday that they would drag Google before the country's competition regulator over its refusal to pay for displaying their content in search results, setting up a legal fight over a new EU copyright law. The APIG press alliance, which groups dozens of national and...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Thursday for a general election on Dec. 12 to break Britain’s Brexit impasse, a goal the leader has sought but so far failed to push through parliament. Johnson said in a letter to opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn he would hand parliament more...