New York's heralded Museum of Modern Art reopens this month after a multi-million-dollar makeover that will allow curators to display hundreds more works every year. The museum has been closed for four months but will open again on October 21 following the latest renovations which increase...

Iraq's deadliest wave of protests since the 2003 ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein has made the country vulnerable to a battle for influence between its two main competing allies, the United States and Iran, analysts say. The anti-government protests that erupted on October 1 echoed the...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday outlined the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China and suspended a threatened tariff hike, but officials on both sides said much more work needed to be done before an accord could be agreed. The emerging deal, covering agriculture,...

Powerful Typhoon Hagibis churned towards Japan on Saturday, heading straight towards the capital with potentially record-breaking rains and sparking evacuation orders, transport disruption and power outages even before making landfall. Rated "large and very strong", the storm has...

Hours after judges passed her up for the Nobel Peace Prize, Greta Thunberg stood before a cheering throng, insisting once again that something must be done about climate change -- and fast. "We as young people are tired of constantly being betrayed by those who are supposed to work for...

If he wins Sunday’s election, media mogul Nabil Karoui will only have to stroll up one of Tunisia’s most expensive streets to move from his own home into the presidential palace. For his opponent Kais Saied, the journey would be very different: through poor districts where the 2011...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Katerji family has taken a significant step towards strengthening their control of most of the potential reconstruction in northern Aleppo province as the business family is close to taking over a cement factory near the city, with generous funding. This may be the...

The death toll of civilians and fighters further increased on the third day of the Turkish offensive towards the Kurds in Syria. A car bomb went off in the city of Qamishli, and on the Turkish side of the border civilians were killed in a mortar attack, according to several media. A car...

Some 100,000 people have left their homes in northeastern Syria with a growing number sheltering in shelters and schools following this week's Turkish military incursion in the region, the United Nations said on Friday. "The humanitarian impact is already being felt. An estimated...

Five detained members of Daesh (ISIS) managed to escape from a Kurdish-run prison in northeastern Syria on Friday after Turkish shelling hit the area, an official said. "Five terrorists escaped from Navkur after shelling struck near the prison," said an official from the Syrian Democratic...

The United States is planning to send a large number of additional forces, possibly thousands, to Saudi Arabia following the Sept. 14 attack on its oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The Pentagon did not...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security services arrested at least 24 people, including 12 women, in the capital and Eastern Ghouta suburbs during the last week, local activists said. Activist Bara’a Mohamed told Zaman al-Wasl that 12 women from the capital and its suburbs were arrested...

Counter-terror police were on Friday probing a mass stabbing at a shopping centre in northwest England that left several people injured and needing hospital treatment. The attack happened at the Arndale shopping centre in the heart of Manchester, where an Islamist extremist suicide bomber...

Turkey's assault on Syrian Kurdish forces has not breached a red line declared by President Donald Trump, a US official said Thursday, as he added that Washington wanted to broker a ceasefire. Trump, in a week of mixed messages, initially voiced understanding for Turkey before...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 in recognition of his efforts to end his country's long-running border conflict with Eritrea. Ethiopia and Eritrea, longtime foes who fought a border war from 1998 to 2000, restored relations in July 2018...

With well-kept houses boasting renovated facades, solar-panelled roofs and neat gardens, Benndorf appears to be a peaceful and friendly German village of just over 2,000 residents. But behind the pleasant veneer is a community still struggling with problems typical in much of...

The Japanese Grand Prix's entire Saturday track programme, including qualifying, has been cancelled as Typhoon Hagibis bears down on the Suzuka circuit, race organisers announced Friday. Qualifying will be rescheduled to 10am (0100—GMT) Sunday, with the race taking place at 2:10pm...

 Suspected missile strikes hit an Iranian oil tanker near the Saudi coast on Friday, its owner said, the first Iranian vessel targeted since a spate of attacks in the Gulf Washington blamed on Tehran. Oil prices surged more than two percent on the news, which raised new supply...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday called on NATO to increase naval patrols in the Aegean after a threat by Turkey to allow more migrants to cross into Greece. "I asked the secretary general and the alliance, and member states to strengthen their presence... in the Aegean...

Syria's deputy foreign minister Faisal Maqdad attacked U.S.-backed Kurdish-led SDF forces Thursday, saying they had betrayed their country and accusing them of a separatist agenda that gave Turkey a pretext to violate his country's sovereignty. Asked about whether Damascus should resume...