(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese authorities have demolished the Rihanya camp north of Akkar province on Thursday, leaving about 1500 people stranded, few days before the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday Lebanon has been ordered to demolish about 4,000 hard shelters, which the authorities...

The Turkish Central Bank has dismissed its chief economist Hakan Kara and some department managers after a decision by the bank's assembly, a document seen by Reuters showed Friday. Among those dismissed were the bank's research and monetary policy general manager Pinar Ozlu and markets...

More than 2 million pilgrims have gathered in the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform initial rites of the hajj, an Islamic pilgrimage that takes the faithful along a path traversed by the Prophet Muhammad some 1,400 years ago. The hajj in Islam is meant to unify Muslims, with...

Pakistan's foreign minister is visiting China as part of efforts to pressure India to reverse its decision revoking the special status of the disputed region of Kashmir. Shah Mahmood Qureshi will meet with Chinese leaders Friday. Before leaving for Beijing, Qureshi said he will apprise...

Mother of five Zalina Gabibulayeva says she was "tricked" into joining the jihadists in Syria five years ago. Now, repentant and repatriated to Russia's Chechnya, she goes into schools to teach others of the dangers of extremism. Countries around the world are grappling with the question of...

A Syrian refugee who survived an arson attack on his home has filed a complaint against German police for their failure to consider xenophobic or far-right motives for the attack, but treating him as a suspect. Sebastian Scharmer, a lawyer representing Hussam Y., told local media Wednesday...

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri indicated that solutions to a political crisis that has paralyzed his government were almost within reach following a meeting on Thursday with President Michel Aoun. The crisis spiraled out of a deadly June 30 shooting in the Chouf mountains that...

British foreign minister Dominic Raab criticised Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for resuming military operations in a Russian-led campaign in northwest Syria, describing the situation there as "appalling." "Appalled by situation in Idlib and how Assad backed by Russia revoked a...

Turkey said Thursday the deal it has reached with Washington to set up a so-called safe zone in northeastern Syria is a good start but warned against delays in implementation. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu's comments came a day after the U.S. and Turkey announced they agreed to...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said no one is authorized to speak to Iran on behalf of the United States and he accused French President Emmanuel Macron of sending "mixed signals" to Tehran over possible talks. "I know Emmanuel means well, as do all others, but nobody speaks for...

Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer were voted back on to the ATP Player Council on Thursday where they are likely to find themselves at odds with president and current world number one Novak Djokovic. World number two Nadal and third-ranked Federer, who celebrated his 38th birthday on Thursday,...

Southern separatists and presidential guards fought for a second day Thursday in Aden, the seat of Yemen's government, with at least one person killed, residents said. That followed three deaths and nine injuries when gunfire erupted between the rivals Wednesday, complicating efforts to end...

India's Kashmir region was stripped of its autonomy to free it from "terrorism and separatism" which was encouraged by Pakistan, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday. In his first comments on the constitutional bombshell carried out while Kashmir was under a military lockdown, Modi...

The humanitarian adviser to U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen Thursday regretted the collapse of a ceasefire in the northwest, saying that fresh violence threatens the lives of millions after more than 500 civilians were killed since late April. Najat Rochdi, senior humanitarian...

At least two people were killed and seven injured in an explosion at a military base used for missile tests in the far north of Russia on Thursday, the defence ministry said in a statement. "During the test of a liquid propellant jet engine, an explosion occurred and the equipment caught...

Iran's defence minister said Thursday that the formation of a US-led flotilla in the Gulf would "increase insecurity" and any Israeli involvement would have "disastrous consequences" for the region. Tehran and Washington have been locked in a battle of nerves since US President Donald Trump...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Empty Stomachs hunger strike campaign has appealed to individuals, peoples, NGOs, trade unions, parliaments, international and human rights institutions to do their part to lift the veil of silence on the most horrible crime of the 21st century. Since the...

 Ali usually marks the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha with his family in the Gaza Strip by sacrificing a sheep, a customary annual ritual for those who can spare the cost. But this year the 49-year-old police officer says he cannot afford to buy an animal for the “feast of the...

An enormous fire raged across several wheat fields outside this town on July 6. It was a dry summer day and dark smoke towered over the countryside as the flames spread across the farmland. Some locals watched in awe at the inferno. Others tried to fight back with shovels and rakes. They had...

Iraq handed over Thursday the remains of 48 Kuwaiti citizens who disappeared during the 1991 Gulf War when dictator Saddam Hussein sent his troops into Kuwait and was forced out by a U.S.-led coalition. The handing over of remains, which were put in caskets wrapped in Kuwaiti flags, is the...