British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab praised U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, adding that he was looking forward to clinching a post-Brexit free trade deal with the United States. After meeting Trump and Vice President Mike Pence in Washington, Raab said: "We appreciate the...

Regime loyalists captured a town and a village from militants and allied rebels in northwest Syria Wednesday, after fierce clashes that killed nearly 30 combatants overnight, an activist group said. The town of Al-Zakat and the Al-Arbaeen village in Hama province came under regime control...

Gareth Bale's stand-off with Real Madrid continued on Wednesday after the forward was left out of Zinedine Zidane's squad to face Red Bull Salzburg in a friendly. Bale has only played in two of Real Madrid's five pre-season games so far, coming on as a substitute against Arsenal and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security services arrested three former rebels in Douma town, northeast Damascus despite reaching a reconciliation deal with regime in 2018, local activists said. The arrest of former Jaish al-Islam fighters has accompanied with a wide-scale raids tracking wanted...

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd and the owner of Hong Kong’s luxury Peninsula hotel became the latest companies to highlight the impact of recent protests on their business, as an escalating cycle of violence clouds the outlook for the city. Millions have taken to Hong Kong streets in...

A disorderly no-deal Brexit would be a disastrous outcome for the food industry that could lead to serious disruption lasting weeks or months, an executive at the Food and Drink Federation said on Wednesday. “The food sector is absolutely clear that a no-deal exit is a disastrous outcome...

 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country’s latest launch of tactical guided missiles was a warning to the United States and South Korea over their joint military drills that began this week, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday. Tuesday’s missile launch, the North’s fourth...

Iran asked U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday to push back against the United States after it imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, describing the move as a “a dangerous precedent.” In a letter to Guterres, Iran’s U.N. Ambassador Majid Takht...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper did not have any particular exchange on the U.S.-proposed maritime coalition in the Middle East, Japan’s top government spokesman said on Wednesday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said that the premier and...

Russian foreign ministry called new American sanctions against Venezuela “economic terror” in a statement Tuesday. "Such steps have no legal basis either in terms of international or domestic Venezuelan law,” said ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. “Obviously, the White House is driven...

Tunisia's biggest political party Ennahda named a candidate for presidential elections on Tuesday, the first time the moderate Islamist party has put up a nominee for the post since the country transitioned to democracy after the 2011 revolution. Party vice president Abdel Fattah Mourou,...

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker, is seeking alternatives to Japanese suppliers for some key materials, it said Wednesday with Seoul and Tokyo embroiled in a bitter trade dispute. The row has seen the Japanese government...

The UN's refugee agency voiced concern Tuesday over a law approved by Italy's parliament that imposes stiffer penalties on NGO migrant rescue boats in the Mediterranean, demanding that humanitarian work "not be criminalised or stigmatised". The text, adopted by Italian lawmakers in a...

A suicide car bomber targeted a police station in western Kabul on Wednesday, setting off a huge explosion that wounded at least 95 people, Afghan officials said. Violence is surging across Afghanistan even as the US and the Taliban negotiate a peace deal ahead of elections planned for...

The continued detention of British-flagged tanker Stena Impero is "unacceptable and unjustifiable" and there are concerns for the welfare of the crew after 19 days in confinement, the vessel's owner said Tuesday. Iran's Revolutionary Guards on July 19 seized the Stena Impero in the Strait...

 Libya's internationally recognized government has allocated 40 million Libyan dinars ($28.5 million) for its defense ministry, it said Tuesday, stepping up spending to fend off an eastern offensive as the war enters a fifth month. The government also granted each of its soldiers 3,000...

US President Donald Trump revived his criticism of Google on Tuesday, referencing a fired engineer who claimed the internet giant was working against his re-election. The latest diatribe from Trump was based on allegations voiced by a former Google engineer interviewed on Fox News. "I...

La Liga president Javier Tebas says Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain represent "a danger that football has not seen before" as he stepped up his attacks on the big-spending superpowers. Tebas, who has strongly criticised City before, said the money pumped into the Premier League...

Apple Inc and Goldman Sachs Group Inc rolled out a virtual credit card on Tuesday, which will help the iPhone maker diversify from device sales and also build out the Wall Street bank’s new consumer business. With the card, Apple aims to draw in iPhone owners with 2% cash back on purchases...

Venezuela’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said a new move by U.S. President Donald Trump to freeze all the country’s assets in the United States was an effort to “formalize a criminal economic, financial, and commercial blockade that has already started.” In a statement, the ministry said it...