A senior official in Yemen's embattled government Thursday accused a southern separatist leader of "fomenting sedition" after his forces clashed with Yemeni troops near the presidential palace in Aden, as concerns rose about a new front in the country's devastating civil war. In a...

France is taking in a new group of Yazidi women and children and helping them settle in the country. France's interior and foreign ministries said 31 families arrived Thursday in the southern city of Toulouse from Irbil, Iraq. Previous groups of 16 and 28 families arrived in December and...

Turkey's state-run news agency says an operation by the Turkish military and its intelligence agency has killed two more suspects and alleged planners in last month's assassination of a Turkish diplomat in Iraq. Anadolu Agency said Thursday that Turkish forces targeted a vehicle carrying...

Security forces on Thursday arrested nine Syrian citizens in western Turkey for their suspected links to the Daesh terror group. The security forces learned that there were Daesh suspects in the Aegean province of Izmir after they examined the digital documents seized in operations in other...

In the Saudi city of Mecca, dotted with fast food eateries and stalls selling Chinese-made trinkets, vendors are ready to cash in on the annual hajj pilgrimage. "Business is going very well," said Faisal Addais from his stall close to the Grand Mosque -- Islam's holiest site. "The...

Regime forces captured two villages from jihadists and allied rebels in northwest Syria on Thursday following deadly clashes, days after ditching a ceasefire for the area, a war monitor said. The villages of Al-Sakhr and Al-Jaysat in Hama province came under regime control, the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Arabic mare was fitted with prosthetic limb by local veterinarians in the northern town of Atareb after being wounded in regime shelling three months ago. The leg of the 4-month-old 'Sham al-Agha' horse was amputated in the regime bombing on the western...

Apple is under investigation in Russia following a complaint from cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab and may be abusing its dominant position in smartphone apps, Russia’s anti-monopoly watchdog said on Thursday. Watchdog FAS said it was investigating why a new version of Kaspersky Lab’s...

Saudi Arabia will host the world’s richest horse race in Riyadh at the King Abdulaziz Racetrack next year, with a purse of $20 million up for grabs, the Jockey Club of Saudi Arabia said on Thursday. The Saudi Cup, which will be run over nine furlongs (1800 meters) on dirt on Feb. 29, will...

An Israeli soldier was found stabbed to death in the occupied West Bank on Thursday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was killed by a Palestinian attacker. In a statement, the Israeli military said the body with stab wounds was discovered near an Israeli settlement north of the...

Damascus said Thursday it rejects a U.S.-Turkish plan to establish a buffer zone in northern Syria, blaming Syria's Kurds for the proposal, state media said. "Syria categorically and blatantly rejects the agreement between the American and Turkish occupiers on the establishment of a...

Iran Thursday hit out at Bahrain for hosting a "provocative" conference on Gulf maritime security and for its "anti-Iran" rhetoric accusing Tehran of attacking tankers in sensitive waters. Bahrain said the July 31 meeting was to discuss the "current regional situation" and blasted "the...

Samsung on Wednesday unveiled a new-generation Galaxy Note large-screen handset starting at $950 and said it will work closer with Microsoft so that services function better across its array of devices. The Note 10 "phablet" which is set for release on August 23, comes in two sizes, with...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed maritime security, Iran and Yemen with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in a phone call on Wednesday. "The secretary discussed heightened tensions in the region and the need for stronger maritime security in order to promote freedom...

Ivan Rakitic's goal in the 79th minute lifted Barcelona to a 2-1 victory over Napoli in a lively pre-season encounter at Hard Rock Stadium. The Croatian midfielder struck a crisply driven effort after a first half own-goal from Samuel Umtiti had cancelled out Sergio Busquet's opener for the...

Venezuela's government will skip a round of Norway-brokered talks on Thursday and Friday to protest a new set of U.S. sanctions meant to force President Nicolas Maduro from power, the Venezuelan information ministry said on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday imposed a freeze...

Washington on Thursday warned US citizens to "exercise increased caution" when travelling to Hong Kong, as protesters announced three days of new demonstrations at the city's airport. The financial hub has been rocked by two months of unrest, initially triggered by opposition to a planned...

A top Syrian Kurdish official gave a guarded welcome Thursday to a US-Turkish agreement to establish a joint operations centre for the north but said the details remained unclear. "This deal may mark the start of a new approach but we still need more details," Aldar Khalil told AFP. "We...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security services arrested about 20 young men wanted for conscription and three former rebels in Douma town, northeast Damascus despite reaching a reconciliation deal, local news site said. The arrest of former Jaish al-Islam fighters has accompanied...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source revealed to Zaman Al-Wasl that the 3rd August explosion in Shayrat airbase was not due to from a private source that the explosion a “technical fault during the transport of expired ammunition” but during a training on new bomb to be used in the ongoing...