Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that Israel will not put up with threats from Iran, which, in his words, was using Syrian territory for aggression, Interfax news agency reported. Both are holding a meeting at the Russian Black Sea...

 Future U.S. sanctions could target allies of Hezbollah in Lebanon, extending beyond direct affiliates of the Iran-backed group, a U.S. envoy said Thursday. "In the future we will designate, because we have to, individuals in Lebanon who are aiding and assisting Hezbollah, regardless...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 375 displaced, mostly women and children, have left the Kurdish-run al-Arisha camp in the northeastern province of Hasaka, heading their hometowns in Deir Ezzor province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Local sources confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that a convoy...

In August, some 3,000 Syrians returned to areas of their home country cleared of terrorist groups by cross-border Turkish military operations. Taking refuge in Turkey as civil war gripped Syria, they were able to return after applying to a voluntary return program. The Turkish migration...

Air strikes pounded the south of Syria's Idlib region Thursday, a rebel official and residents said, despite a ceasefire that had halted a fierce army offensive against the rebel stronghold two weeks ago. Regime warplanes bombed the south Idlib countryside for the first time since,...

An Algerian court on Thursday ordered a prominent opposition leader, Karim Tabou, to be held in custody on charges of “contributing to weakening the army’s morale”, a lawyer and activist close to Tabou said. Tabou’s detention follows months of weekly protests that forced veteran president...

American Muslim cleric Hamza Yusuf has caused outrage after a YouTube video in which he mocked the plight of Syrian refugees emerged this week. In a three and a half minute video posted on Monday  entitled "We Have Humiliated Ourselves", Yusuf mentioned one of the early slogans of...

The UN Security Council on Thursday unanimously adopted a resolution renewing its mission in Libya for another year and pledging to support struggling efforts to build a ceasefire in the war-torn country. Libya has been mired in chaos since an uprising toppled and killed dictator Moamer...

Italy said on Thursday it had done a deal with EU countries to share out migrants aboard a charity ship at sea in the Mediterranean, resolving the first of what may be repeated episodes that will test the new government in Rome. The Ocean Viking, run by French charities SOS Mediterranee and...

The United States has raised its concerns with Gulf allies over a possible security risk in using Huawei’s technology for their 5G mobile infrastructure, U.S. officials said on Thursday. Washington has been warning allies against using the Chinese company’s equipment, which it says presents...

French court Thursday handed a 10-month suspended sentence to a sister of the Saudi crown prince for ordering a bodyguard to beat a workman who came to do plumbing work at her luxury residence in Paris in 2016. Hassa bint Salman, a daughter of King Salman and sister of the powerful Crown...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The 10-year-old Shatha Sabra was able to master the Turkish language brilliantly, creating a YouTube channel to teach Syrian children in Turkey the language. Sabra fled Syria with her family to escape Assad's terror to Lebanon in 2014 and then to Turkey. After...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has selected long-time judiciary official Hamada al-Sawy as public prosecutor, judicial sources said on Thursday, the first such appointment since the constitution was amended earlier this year. Egyptians approved constitutional changes in April,...

Spanish football giants Real Madrid star Luka Modric sustained a thigh injury, the club said Thursday. "Los Blancos" (The Whites) medical team announced on official website that Modric "has been diagnosed with a muscular injury to the adductor in his right leg." Modric is under...

The Turkish and U.S. armed forces on Thursday started their fourth joint helicopter flight for a planned safe zone east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria. Two Turkish helicopters and two U.S. choppers took off from Akcakale in Sanliurfa, southeastern Turkey, where the two countries’...

Yemen's Houthi rebels say they have killed the man they hold responsible for the recent assassination of their leader's brother, adding that the man was a spy for archenemy Saudi Arabia. The rebel-run authorities in the capital, Sanaa, released a statement Wednesday evening, saying their...

An Afghan official says a Taliban suicide car bomber has targeted an Afghan special forces base on the outskirts of Kabul, killing at least four troops. Fawad Aman, deputy spokesperson for the Afghan Defense Ministry also says three other soldiers were wounded in Thursday's attack in the...

Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said Thursday a visiting senior U.S. treasury official assured him that sanctions against Iran would remain in full force. "I just finished an excellent working meeting with Sigal Mandelker, the under secretary of the treasury," he wrote on his Twitter...

Thousands of Sudanese have rallied on the streets of the capital, Khartoum, demanding the sacking of the judiciary chief and the general prosecutor over their alleged ties to ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir's government. The protesters waved Sudanese flags and marched to the presidential...

Barcelona captain Lionel Messi would be "thrilled" if Neymar returned to the Catalan side but insisted they could still win trophies without the Brazilian. In an interview with the Catalan newspaper Sport this week, Messi said the return of Neymar, who was at Barca from 2013 and 2017 when...