Turkish authorities reported a seven-fold jump in the number of migrants attempting the dangerous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece in August. This month to Aug. 28, 7,834 migrants and refugees were intercepted at sea, according to the Turkish Coast Guard. That compares to 1,311...

Italy’s 5-Star Movement will only enter a coalition with the opposition Democratic Party (PD) if it agrees to a string of policy demands, the 5-Star leader said on Friday, setting an uncompromising tone for the negotiations. Luigi Di Maio’s hardline message dented growing optimism that a...

A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed six southern separatist fighters on the edge of the Yemeni city of Aden on Friday, witnesses said, part of a surge of violence that has complicated a near five-year-old war and undermined U.N. peace efforts. Islamic State claimed responsibility for...

Companies from the United Arab Emirates are taking part in the Damascus International Trade Fair, state media has said, months after their embassy reopened in the Syrian capital. On Wednesday, a delegation of around 40 businessmen from the UAE arrived in Damascus "to take part in the...

Iraq's government is preparing a complaint to the U.N. after finding Israel is "certainly" behind several attacks on Hashed al-Shaabi bases, a parliamentarian and leading member of the paramilitary force said. The Hashed has blamed both Israel and the U.S. for a string of blasts and...

Earlier this summer, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, submitted a report to Beijing that assessed protesters' five key demands and found that withdrawing a contentious extradition bill could help defuse the mounting political crisis in the territory. The Chinese central...

Three human rights groups are urging Egyptian authorities to immediately release an Egyptian-Palestinian activist who was arrested last month for alleged ties with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. The International Federation for Human Rights, The Cairo Institute for Human Rights...

Three separatist fighters were killed Friday in a suicide bombing in Aden, the first such attack since Yemeni government forces were expelled from the southern city on Aug. 10, security sources said. "A suicide bomber crashed his bomb-laden motorbike into a vehicle of the Southern...

The United Nations Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would call for a truce in northwestern Syria “to avoid a further deterioration of the already catastrophic humanitarian situation,” though diplomats said on Thursday that such a move is likely to face opposition from...

Syrian regime forces will unilaterally cease fire in the de-escalation zone in Syria's Idlib region Saturday morning, Russia's defense ministry was quoted by TASS news agency as saying on Friday. The ministry also urged armed militant groups in the region to join the ceasefire,...

Lebanon has not received any docking request from Iranian tanker Adrian Darya 1, whose seizure had been requested by the United States, the energy minister said on Friday. "The energy ministry does not buy crude oil from any country and Lebanon does not own a crude oil refinery. There...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he wants to "step up the tempo" in talks with the European Union to strike a new Brexit deal before the October 31 deadline. The comments came ahead of a court ruling Friday that could block Johnson's suspension of parliament just weeks before...

US teen sensation Coco Gauff and top-ranked defending champion Naomi Osaka will meet in a third-round showdown Saturday at the US Open, each curious to test her game against the other. Japanese 21-year-old Osaka dispatched Poland's Magda Linette 6-2, 6-4 while 15-year-old American...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime activists and relatives of the Syrian tycoon Rami Makhlouf said the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had held his cousin in custody over 'money discords'. This disagreement led to direct orders to take Makhlouf’s companies and investments into the custody of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four policemen were killed Thursday when an armed group opened fire on their vehicle in southern Daraa province, state-run media reported.  No rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack that took place near the town of Muzayrib. More than...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian student outperformed her Turkish peers after graduating from two universities with honors, the Turkish Sabah newspaper reported. Roba Abousaleh, who came to Mersin city with her family years ago fleeing the Syrian war, has graduated from two universities with...

Russian-backed regime forces seized several towns and villages in northwest Syria Thursday, as deadly air strikes hit the jihadist-held bastion, a monitor said. Seven civilians died in air strikes in the south of the bastion, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after regime...

The Swedish Migration Agency will no longer issue residence permits to all refugees coming from Syria, ending a generous policy which over the last six years has seen over 100,000 Syrians granted asylum in the country. In September 2013, Sweden was the first country in the world to open its...

 The United States on Thursday sanctioned Lebanon-based Jammal Trust Bank SAL and its subsidiaries for allegedly facilitating the financial activities of Hezbollah, according to the Treasury Department, which said the bank funnels money to the families of suicide bombers. Separately,...

An Iranian rocket exploded on its launch pad at Imam Khomeini Space Center in northern Iran before its scheduled launch on Thursday, an Iranian official said. The launch was due to have taken place despite U.S. warnings to Iran that it should avoid such activity. “It was due to some...