Syria's state news agency says authorities have captured and dismantled a drone rigged with cluster bombs near the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. SANA gave no further details about the drone Saturday, but posted several photos. The incident came two days after...

Dozens of demonstrators were arrested at yellow vest protests in Paris on Saturday as more than 7,000 police were deployed to quell any violence by the movement and its radical, anarchist "black blocs". There were also fears that the demonstrators could try to infiltrate a march against...

With the burial in Saudi exile Saturday of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia is turning the page on more than two decades of nepotism and repression with a large dose of indifference. Forced out of Tunisia on January 14, 2011, by weeks of popular outrage spurred by the...

Charles Leclerc produced a stunning lap in the final practice session for the Singapore Grand Prix on Saturday as Ferrari announced themselves as contenders for pole position and Sunday's race at a circuit where they were expected to struggle. Leclerc, in his rookie season for the Italian...

Syrian opposition activists say anti-government protesters have captured at least two army checkpoints in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the protests occurred in government-held areas close to those controlled by U.S.-backed...

(Zaman  Al Wasl)- Syrian journalist Shaaban Abboud has published a novel entitled "Queen of Al Fu’ah and Student of Binnish.” Abboud’s debut novel tells chapters of the Syrian tragedy that took on a sectarian dimension, painting the story of a childish love of two students at a...

Any country that attacks Iran will become the "main battlefield", the Revolutionary Guards warned Saturday after Washington ordered reinforcements to the Gulf following attacks on Saudi oil installations it blames on Tehran. Tensions escalated between arch-foes Iran and the United States...

Facebook Inc said on Friday it has suspended tens of thousands of apps on the social networking platform, as part of the company’s ongoing app developer investigation it began in March 2018 in response to the Cambridge Analytica row. The suspended apps are associated with about 400...

Groups of China supporters pulled down “Lennon Walls” of anti-government protest messages across Hong Kong on Saturday, raising the possibility of clashes with democracy supporters and another weekend of trouble. By mid-morning, dozens of Beijing supporters had started to tear down the...

U.S. President Donald Trump will tout U.S. leadership and a collective approach to challenges while at the United Nations next week, said a senior administration official on Friday, as Washington seeks to use the gathering of world leaders to build support to take on Iran and call out China...

More than 7,000 police officers are to be deployed for rallies in Paris on Saturday over fears that yellow vest protesters and their radical, anarchist "black blocs" could try to infiltrate a march against climate change in the French capital. The yellow vest movement erupted 10 months ago...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air and missile defenses after the largest-ever attack on the kingdom’s oil facilities, which Washington has squarely blamed on Iran. The Pentagon said the deployment would involve a moderate...

Rare small protests broke out on Friday in Cairo and other Egyptian cities calling for the removal of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi but police quickly dispersed them, AFP journalists reported. Dozens of people joined night-time demonstrations around Tahrir Square - the epicentre of the...

The number of children under five dying in the al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria has more than doubled since March, according to data from the International Rescue Committee. Figures show that child mortality at the camp, which houses women and children displaced following the fall of...

Near the village of Hazano in northwestern Syria, children come running through the olive groves every morning to meet the bus that brings school to their improvised tented camp. Years of fighting and displacement in Idlib province have wrought chaos for the education of children,...

Apple’s latest iPhone 11 range hit stores in China on Friday, with short queues of die-hard fans contrasting with the hundreds who camped out ahead of some previous launches. The sales performance of the U.S. tech giant’s latest line-up is being closely watched in the world’s largest...

Doctors from Turkey’s large cities have been stationed in two southern provinces to prepare for a possible incursion into northern Syria, two security sources told Reuters on Friday, adding leave for doctors in the region had been canceled. Turkey and the United States have been working to...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis will stop targeting Saudi Arabia with missile and drone attacks if its adversaries targeting Yemen do the same, a Houthi official said on Friday according to the group’s Masirah TV. Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the Houthi political office, said the group reserved...

At least eight people were killed and several others wounded in a blast from a bomb planted on a bus near the Iraqi city of Karbala south of Baghdad on Friday, two local police officers said. The blast took place near the main entrance to Karbala, a Shi’ite Muslim holy city, the police...

Russia and China vetoed on Friday a UN Security Council resolution for a cease-fire in northwest Syria's Idlib province.  Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova described the document as "an attempt to take the heat off the...