One year on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkey has been striving to clarify the brutal murder of the columnist last fall by Saudi operatives in the Kingdom’s Istanbul Consulate. Since Oct. 2, 2018 when Khashoggi entered Saudi consulate and never heard from again, Turkey...

 Turkey's deadline to jointly establish a "safe zone" with the United States in northern Syria by the end of September has passed, leaving the threat of unilateral military intervention by Ankara hanging over the region. President Tayyip Erdogan told the United Nations last week he...

Russian military specialists are flying to Venezuela, Iran is increasing its drone threats to Saudi Arabia, and Turkey is blustering about a new military operation in eastern Syria. Across the Middle East and among U.S. global adversaries, there is a desire to test the Trump administration in...

More than 1,000 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the sixth year in a row that that "bleak milestone" has been reached, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. "UNHCR is urgently calling for an increase in search and rescue capacity, including a return of...

Iran's parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani said on Tuesday he welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's willingness to resolve issues with Iran through talks. The Saudi Crown Prince had said he preferred a political resolution rather than a military one to the issues with Iran in an...

North Korea and the United States will hold working-level nuclear talks on Saturday, Pyongyang said, signalling the resumption of a dialogue process that has been effectively stalled since the collapse of a summit in February. The two sides agreed to have "preliminary contact" on October 4...

With punching bags for "beating corruption" and clowns to yellow-card the system, an independent Tunisian "anti-party" has launched an unusual campaign to win over voters fed up with political elites. Its name is Aich Tounsi, which means "Live the Tunisian Way", and this young civil society...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists appealed the Lebanese authorities not to deport member of opposition Ramez al-Sayed or hand him over to the regime as he never carried a weapon or fought, his only weapon being the pen and words, according to the appeal statement. Activists insisted on Lebanon...

South Korean fighter jets conducted a patrol flight on Tuesday over islands at the center of a bitter dispute with Japan, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said at an event marking the founding of the South Korean military. South Korea showcased newly acquired F-35 stealth fighter jets to...

The Treasury Department placed sanction on multiple Russian individuals Monday for alleged attempts to influence the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.  Among them are Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Russian financier behind the Internet Research Agency, and six employees. The firm is described...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria said Monday that the convening of a committee to draft a new constitution for Syria on Oct. 30 "should be a sign of hope for the long-suffering Syrian people" — but it will matter only if it becomes a step out of the more than eight-year conflict. Geir...

Police fanned out across Hong Kong on Tuesday in a bid to deter pro-democracy protests as the city marked communist China's 70th birthday, with local officials watching a flag-raising ceremony behind closed doors because of security concerns. Authorities ramped up security checks ahead of...

Twitter on Monday said it is rolling out a filter that will hide away unwanted direct messages, providing a new tool to stymie abuse. Twitter users who receive direct messages from people they don't follow on the platform will be able to have such missives automatically routed to a...

A bridge collapsed in northeastern Taiwan on Tuesday injuring at least 14 people as it smashed down on to fishing vessels moored underneath and sent a petrol tanker plummeting into the water. Dramatic CCTV images captured the moment the 140-metre long single-arch bridge came crashing down...

 The United States said Monday nearly 128,000 people face arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and called for their release. "This practice is unacceptable," US Ambassador Kelly Craft told the UN Security Council at its monthly meeting on the conflict in Syria. "The Assad...

A woman was killed and dozens detained in a Kurdish-run camp in northeast Syria holding families of Islamic State group jihadists, a Kurdish official said. Security incidents have been on the rise in the crowded camp of Al-Hol, which houses families of IS fighters among its 70,000...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ‘Homs Und Ich’, a film by Syrian director Sulaiman Tadmori, participated in the Hamburg Film Festival, which takes place from September 26 to October 5. The documentary tells of steadfastness, hunger and fear during the siege of Homs by the regime army between 2012 and...

North Korea blamed the United States Monday for a failure to restart stalled talks, more than a year after President Donald Trump's first meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. North Korea said this month it was willing to restart talks in late September but Washington needed to...

 Former U.S. Army chief General Mark Milley became the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Monday, taking on the sensitive role as President Donald Trump's top military advisor. "You can rest assured that I will always provide you informed, candid and impartial military...

Conspiracy theories, calls to arrest Democrats for treason, ominous warnings about civil war: President Donald Trump, facing the threat of impeachment, is ramping up his bellicose rhetoric on Twitter to a new level. Trump is lashing out wildly in all directions as the Democratic-led House...