(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mother and her boy child have lost their lives in Russian airstrikes hit the Mount Zawiya in northern Idlib province, local activists said Monday. The cluster-bomb attack hit the village of al-Bara south of Idlib city.   Last Wednesday, two civilians were...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled Monday that Turkey aims to drive Kurdish-led fighters from the northern Syrian town of Manbij, after Syrian Kurdish officials struck a deal with the Syrian government to confront Ankara’s offensive. Earlier Monday, Syrian government forces...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Riyadh on Monday for talks with Saudi King Salman and his Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Putin's visit is part of a regional tour that will also take the Russian leader to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to the Russian Sputnik...

Players from Saudi Arabia's national soccer team travelled to Jerusalem's Old City Monday to pray at one of Islam's holiest sites. The players visited the Noble Sanctuary, a compound that houses the Golden Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest shrine in Islam. "This is...

Saudi Arabian forces have taken over control of Yemen's southern port of Aden as part of efforts to end a power struggle between the Yemeni government and southern separatists, four sources familiar with the matter said. Last week the United Arab Emirates, Riyadh's main partner in an...

Mobile phone networks were restored in Indian Kashmir on Monday after a 72-day blackout, authorities said, but the internet remains off-limits to the region's seven million-plus people. India cut access to mobile networks in the restive Kashmir Valley in early August citing security...

A team of British experts arrived in Iran on Monday to begin work to upgrade the Arak heavy water nuclear reactor, the UK embassy in Tehran said. Iran removed the core of the Arak facility and filled part of it with cement as part of a 2015 deal that gave the country relief from sanctions...

Saudi Arabia's energy giant Aramco will announce its long-awaited stock market debut "very, very soon," its chairman said on Monday. Aramco has said it plans to float around five percent of the state-owned company in 2020 or 2021 in what could potentially be the world's biggest stock sale....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Eighth years ago on October 7, the prominent dissident and Kurdish leader Mashaal Tammo was assassinated by pro-Bashar al-Assad’s militants in northeastern Qamishli city. Tammo was born in Derbasiyah, Hasakah in 1957. He received a degree in Agricultural Engineering,...

Syrian troops have begun sweeping into Kurdish-held territory on a collision course with Turkish forces and their allies, a day after the beleaguered Kurds agreed to hand over key cities to Damascus in exchange for protection. The deal, which Kurdish leaders emphasised they had made...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese General security handed a Syrian refugee to the regime on Friday, human rights advocate said. Lawyer Mohammad Sablouh published on his Facebook page that  Hadi Dhia al-Zuhuri   was tried before the military court for fighting against the regime. He...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-led international coalition forces began to airlift foreign Daesh prisoners and their families from Hasaka province as the Turkish army backed by opposition forces press advances in northeastern Syria, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Muhannad al-Yousif...

French police on Monday detained five people linked to a radicalised employee at the Paris police headquarters who killed four colleagues in a knife attack earlier this month, sources said. Police staged raids at three locations in the northern suburbs of Paris, judicial sources and those...

A total of 550 Kurdish militants have been “neutralized” since the start of Turkey's military operation in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Monday.  Turkish authorities often use the word "neutralized" to imply the 'terrorists' in question surrendered or were...

President Lenín Moreno and leaders of Ecuador's indigenous peoples struck a deal late Sunday to cancel a disputed austerity package and end nearly two weeks of protests that have paralyzed the economy and left seven dead.  Under the agreement announced just before 10 p.m., Moreno will...

The death toll mounted throughout the day Sunday as bodies were recovered from flooded homes and cars, buildings caught in landslides, and swollen rivers. The dead included a municipal worker whose car was overcome by floodwaters and at least five Chinese crew members aboard a boat that...

Independent candidate Kais Saied won a clear victory in Sunday’s presidential election in Tunisia, two exit polls projected, although no official results had yet been announced. Saied, a retired law professor with conservative social views, spent barely any money on an election campaign...

More than 700 people with links to Islamic State have escaped from a detention camp in north-east Syria, as the Kurdish-led forces in control of the area reached a deal with the Assad regime to stave off a bloody five-day-old Turkish assault. Kurdish fighters controlling the region...

Neymar limped off with an injured early on as Brazil played out a 1-1 friendly draw against Nigeria at the Singapore National Stadium Sunday. The five-time world champions fell behind in the first half, but Casemiro's equalizer early in the second period spared their blushes before Brazil...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan dismissed reports that Daesh (ISIS) prisoners in northeastern Syria had escaped as a result of Turkey's offensive in the region, saying they were "disinformation" aimed at provoking the West. The Kurdish-led administration in northern Syria said Sunday that...