Sudan is witnessing a heated race between Gulf rivals, who are using their financial means to influence the country's future, according to analysts.  The race is manifested in financial aid and investments by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in one hand and Qatar on the...

 Pakistan's police say security forces have raided a militant hideout on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Quetta, triggering a gun battle that killed all six suspects, including a woman. A statement from the counter-terrorism department says five police officers were wounded...

President Hassan Rouhani said Iran will announce a new step in scaling back its nuclear commitments by Thursday despite a diplomatic push for relief from US sanctions. Iran and three European countries -- Britain, France and Germany -- have been engaged in talks to save a 2015 nuclear deal...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced on Wednesday the formal withdrawal of an extradition bill that triggered months of unrest and has thrown the Chinese-controlled city into its worst crisis in decades, Cable TV and other media said. The protests in the former British colony began in June...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A mass grave was exhumed Tuesday from a school in Raqqa city, the First Response Team of Raqqa Local Council said. Yaser al-Khamis, head of the team said thirteen bodies were recovered from a school in the Badu (Bedouins) neighborhood in Raqqa city, saying the grave is...

Seven crew members of a Swedish-owned tanker seized by Iran in July will be released, the chief executive of Stena Bulk that owns the tanker said Wednesday. "Seven crew members will be released according to the Iranian authorities... but we don't know when," Stena Bulk CEO Erik Hanell...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s first foldable smartphone, the Galaxy Fold, will go on sale on Friday in South Korea, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. The highly anticipated device from the world’s top smartphone maker was originally due to hit the U.S. market in...

The army in Indian Kashmir said Wednesday a teenager has died after being hit by stone-pelting protesters in the restive region that has been under lockdown for a month. Asrar Ahmed Khan died on Tuesday night after succumbing to wounds he received on August 6, senior army officer...

A senior Iranian official confirmed on Wednesday that Tehran would return to its nuclear deal commitment only if it got $15 billion for oil sales over four months, as stipulated in a draft French plan to salvage the accord, the Fars news agency said. France has proposed offering Iran about...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Militant Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group has arrested an orthopaedic surgeon after being chased, shot on his foot, beaten and insulted for hours, Free Doctors Syndicate in northern Idlib province said Wednesday.  Dr. Othman al-Hassan, who works in the Bab...

A senior Syrian Kurdish official says the creation of a so-called "safe zone" in northeastern Syria is off to good start, with U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces pulling back from an initial part of the border with Turkey. But she says calm can only prevail if Turkey also removes its troops....

Saudi Arabia is confronting the perils of its combative foreign policy as it slides further into a military quagmire in Yemen, one of a series of strategic missteps under the ambitious crown prince, analysts say. The Sunni kingdom, locked in a battle for regional supremacy with Shiite power...

The table running across Samya Khasro's living room wall is a shrine to the missing: flickering candles and fading photographs of her 26 Iraqi relatives who vanished 35 years ago. Khasro, who hails from a once-persecuted Shiite Kurdish minority, says her family was gutted by the...

Grigor Dimitrov had struggled through most of the past two seasons and battled with a shoulder injury early this season, but the payoff for his perseverence was sweet indeed. The 78th-ranked Bulgarian delivered a stunning upset of 20-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer in the US Open...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson braced for another showdown in parliament on Wednesday after a humiliating defeat over his Brexit strategy, with MPs set to vote on a law aimed at blocking a no-deal departure. Johnson has said he will seek an early general election if MPs vote against...

The value of the Syrian pound against the dollar has fallen sharply to its lowest rate in history, an economic publication said Tuesday. On the black market on Tuesday, the pound was trading at 650 against the dollar (715 to the euro). It's "the lowest in history", Jihad...

Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido on Tuesday backed the use of satellites to help locate guerrilla groups that have crossed into Venezuela from neighboring Colombia, days after dissident rebels launched a new offensive. Former FARC guerillas on Thursday announced a rearmament in a...

A Tunisian appeals court on Tuesday upheld the detention of media magnate Nabil Karoui, a candidate in this month’s presidential election, on suspicion of tax fraud and money laundering, his lawyer said. Karoui, who denies any wrongdoing, had sought to be freed, but the court rejected the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 38 troops from the coastal Tartus province killed in August by rebels and jihadist Tahrir al-Sham group in northwestern Syria, pro-regime activists said. The death toll included 8 officers. Most slain troops were killed in the northern countryside...

Explosions heard on Tuesday in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia were a result of anti-aircraft defenses intercepting drones launched toward Hmeimim air base, Syrian state TV and the state news agency (SANA) reported. State media said militants had launched the drones toward the air base...