Algeria will hold a presidential election on Dec. 12, interim President Abdelkader Bensalah said in a televised speech on Sunday. Weekly mass demonstrations forced veteran president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign in April, leaving Algeria in constitutional limbo and facing a stand off...

Iran rejected accusations by the United States that it was behind attacks on Saudi oil plants that risk disrupting world energy supplies and warned on Sunday that U.S. bases and aircraft carriers in the region were in range of its missiles. Yemen’s Houthi group claimed responsibility for...

Syria's future belongs to its people, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday.  He was speaking to reporters at the Mehrabad Airport in Tehran ahead of a visit to Ankara to attend a trilateral meeting with leaders of Russia and Turkey on Syria. "Apart from the stability and...

 Polling booths closed at 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) in Tunisia Sunday after voting in the first round of a presidential election in the young democracy. The head of the electoral commission had earlier called for young voters to head to the polls, with turnout standing at only 27.8 percent by...

The leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran meet on Monday to try to secure a lasting truce in northwest Syria following attacks by the government that risk deepening regional turmoil and pushing a new wave of migrants toward Turkey. The summit in Ankara, bringing together countries whose Syrian...

At least 12 civilians were killed and dozens injured on Sunday in a car bomb attack in northern Aleppo province near the Turkish border.  The explosion took place at a car park near the main hospital in the al-Rai town, about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away from Turkey....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government approved a new settlement in the occupied West Bank Sunday, his office said, just two days ahead of closely fought general elections. Netanyahu's cabinet agreed to turn the wildcat settlement of Mevoot Yericho in the Jordan Valley into...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's state-run news agency SANA says President Bashar Assad has granted amnesty for all crimes committed before Sept. 14. According to the pardon issued Sunday, life-long terms would replace death sentences, and a 20-year-long sentence at hard labor would...

The White House said on Sunday President Donald Trump may still meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, despite the US accusing Iran of masterminding drone attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway did not rule out the possibility in a television...

The European Union warned on Sunday of a “real threat to regional security” in the Middle East after attacks on Saudi oil plants that risk disrupting global energy supplies and for which Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group claimed responsibility. “Yesterday’s attack by drones on two Aramco...

The US-led coalition said Sunday that "good progress" was being made in implementing a buffer zone in northern Syria along the Turkish border. Turkey and the United States last month agreed on the so-called "security mechanism" to create a buffer between the Turkish border and Syrian areas...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday reiterated his pledge to annex Jordan valley in the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu’s comments came during a Cabinet meeting held in the Jordan valley for the first time since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967. “We will apply...

 Hong Kong police fired water cannon and volleys of tear gas to break up protesters throwing petrol bombs near the Legislative Council building and inside the Central Government Offices on Sunday, the latest in weeks of sometimes violent unrest. Some protesters threw bricks at police...

Iraq denied on Sunday that its territory had been used to carry out attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, referring to an incident that knocked out more that half the Kingdom’s output. A Baghdad government statement denied “media reports that (Iraqi) territory was used to attack Saudi...

Iran’s foreign minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Sunday that the United States and its allies were “stuck in Yemen” and that blaming Tehran “won’t end the disaster”. “Having failed at “max pressure”, @SecPompeo’s turning to “max deceit”.. US & its clients are stuck in Yemen because...

Syrian troops shelled the south of Idlib on Sunday, according to rescuers and residents in the rebel stronghold where a ceasefire had halted a fierce army offensive two weeks ago. Artillery fire battered Maarat al-Numan town and nearby villages in the south Idlib countryside over the past...

The Afghan Taliban rescinded a months-long ban on the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) working in areas under their control Sunday and restored security guarantees for those working for the organisation. The militants and the ICRC "consented to following the old agreement on top...

Thousands have returned to their hometowns in northwest Syria after military advances by regime loyalist against jihadists and allied rebels, state-rin media said Sunday. "Thousands of citizens return to their villages and towns of the northern Hama countryside and the southern Idlib...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lebanon has suspended food rations and aid for 2,000 Syrian families lives in border Arsal camps, a camp principal told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. The UNHCR, via text message, has informed the families that they are no...

An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said on Sunday that U.S. bases and aircraft carriers in the region were within range of Iranian missiles after the U.S. accused Iran of leading attacks on Saudi oil plants, raising tensions in the Middle East. Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said...