Manchester United drew 1-1 with Wolverhampton Wanderers late Monday in the English Premier League's last game of the second week at Wolves' Molineux Stadium. ManU's French forward Anthony Martial scored the opening goal in the 27th minute, making it 0-1. But Wolves' Portuguese...

A South African photojournalist being held captive in Darkoush, Syria made a desperate appeal to the South African government and international community late Monday to help secure his release from gunmen who are demanding $1.5 million in ransom.  Shiraaz Mohamed, who was kidnapped in...

 Russia accused the United States Tuesday of stoking military tensions by testing a ground-launched cruise missile, but said it would not be drawn into an arms race, TASS news agency reported. The Pentagon said on Monday it had tested a conventionally-configured cruise missile that hit...

The number of people wounded in multiple bomb blasts in the Afghan city of Jalalabad has risen to 123, officials said Tuesday, a day after 14 bombs exploded in public squares, markets and outside restaurants in the eastern city. No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attacks...

Huawei on Tuesday dismissed Washington's three-month delay to a ban on US firms selling to the Chinese tech giant and said the decision would not change the fact it had been "treated unjustly". The US Commerce Department effectively suspended for a second time tough rules stopping the sale...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she hoped a peaceful weekend anti-government protest was the start of an effort to restore peace and that dialogue with peaceful protesters would provide a "way out" for the Chinese-ruled city. Hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied...

India's Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft entered lunar orbit on Tuesday, executing one of the trickiest manoeuvres on its historic mission to the Moon. After four weeks of interstellar travel, the spacecraft completed its Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) as planned, the Indian Space Research...

Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he killed himself in the Manhattan federal jail, new court records show, opening a new legal front in what could be a yearslong battle over the financier's fortune. Court papers filed last week in the U.S. Virgin Islands list no details of...

American tech giants Amazon, Facebook and Google joined forces on Monday to decry the French digital tax as retroactive and discriminatory. President Donald Trump is considering retaliating against the tax -- approved July 11 -- with punitive tariffs on French wine imports, prompting an...

Jihadists and allied rebels withdrew from a key area of northwestern Syria Tuesday as President Bashar al-Assad's forces pressed an offensive against the jihadist-run Idlib region, a war monitor said. The fighters pulled back from the town of Khan Sheikun and the countryside to its south...

(EQTSAD)- The hollowing-out of the Syrian currency’s value has been continued as trading against the US dollar reached the highest rate in three years in blackmarket, according to exchange dealers. Trading at 47 Syrian liras to the US dollar in 2011, it's currently going for 622 Syrian...

 Saudi Arabia says a soldier was killed near the country's southern border with Yemen, where the kingdom has been at war against Houthi rebels for four and a half years. The state-run Saudi Press Agency reported the death on Monday, providing his name and his rank as a sergeant, but...

The Pentagon said on Monday that it had tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile with a range of more than 500 km (310 miles), the first such test since the US pulled out of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). The United States formally withdrew from...

Turkey said a regime airstrike on a Turkish military convoy in northwest Syria killed three civilians and wounded 12 Monday as Syrian troops advanced on rebels in a key town. The airstrikes hit near the convoy that was approaching frontlines in Idlib province, two Turkey-backed...

Democratic U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan plan to host a news conference Monday afternoon on travel restrictions to Israel and Palestine, after they were denied entry into Israel last week. At the urging of President Donald Trump, Israel denied entry to the...

An Egyptian court has sentenced six people to death on terror charges for carrying out attacks that killed at least three people, including a policeman, on the outskirts of the capital. Giza criminal court on Monday also sentenced 41 defendants, including 28 in absentia, to life in prison...

Some 3,500 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have been cleared to return home to Myanmar beginning this week, a top official said Monday, nearly two years after a military crackdown sparked their exodus. Some 740,000 Rohingya fled to Bangladesh in August 2017 from a military offensive in...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has fired all of his advisers, his office said Monday, amid a financial crisis in the occupied West Bank that has prompted deep salary cuts. Abbas's office did not provide further details on the number of advisers or the costs involved, pointing only to a...

Bahrain said Monday it would join US-led efforts to protect shipping in the Gulf amid tensions between Washington and Tehran after a series of attacks on tankers. Bahrain's King Hamad voiced his country's appreciation of the "US role in supporting regional security and stability" during a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The students’ moments of fun in a classroom belonging to the ruling party turned into a session of torture and abuse after the ball with which they played smashed the picture of the regime, “For Absurdism, Oh Vanguards” revolves around this image.  While the title...