(Zaman Al Wasl)- It has been three days since Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) stormed the house of Zaman al-Wasl reporter in the western countryside of Aleppo city and took him to an unknown destination.    Members of the former Syrian offshoot of al-Qaeda did not reveal the...

Juventus drew 3-3 in a friendly with a K League all-star team on Friday but 60,000 spectators couldn't hide their upset after Cristiano Ronaldo failed to play. Ronaldo remained on the bench throughout the game ignoring appeals from the crowd to lace up his boots. It was understandable...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday kept up his pressure on global tech giant Google days after his Treasury secretary ruled out any national security concerns over the company’s work in China. Trump, in a tweet, did not offer any evidence of a problem with Google’s business in China but...

Spain’s Socialists said on Friday that they would keep working with all parties to avoid a repeat election but were no longer prepared to offer a coalition government to far-left Podemos, which blocked their attempt to be confirmed in power. In a parliamentary election three months ago,...

Britain’s media regulator fined Russia’s RT 200,000 pounds ($248,740) for breaching broadcasting impartiality rules in its coverage of the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal, the policies of Ukraine and the conflict in Syria. Relations between London and Moscow sank to a post-Cold War...

Libya's UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) on Friday targeted Al-Jufra airbase, controlled by forces based in the east of the troubled country. GNA's forces announced in a statement that the airstrike resulted in destroying a hangar used for drones and a cargo plane of forces...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned of a full-scale armed conflict in the Middle East on Friday. Speaking at a BRICS foreign ministers meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Lavrov said the U.S. steps against Iran had led to a harsh escalation in the Persian Gulf region. "The situation...

A U.K. court has ruled in London's favor in a long-standing financial dispute with Iran that has wider political ramifications for Britain's increasingly strained relationship with the Islamic republic. The case revolves a payment of £650 million made by Iran in the 1970s to buy 1,500...

U.S. officials say Iran test-launched a medium-range ballistic missile, continuing a program criticized by the U.S. and other nations. The test was conducted on Wednesday within Iran's borders and posed no threat to U.S. forces, the officials said Friday. The officials spoke on condition of...

 Moroccan authorities say that 15 people have been killed in a landslide that buried their van under 20 meters of earth, leaving no survivors. The dead include a 6-year-old child, according to a local official at the scene of Thursday's tragedy. Heavy rainfall triggered multiple...

Tunisia is gearing up for snap elections as early as September following the death of president Beji Caid Essebsi, amid uncertainty over who could step forward to run the North African country. Essebsi, the country's first head of state elected in nationwide polls, died Thursday at the age...

A member of a recently-formed "dialogue committee" in Algeria said on Friday that the body's mission was to reach general consensus on holding presidential polls as soon as possible.  Earlier on Thursday, the Algerian interim presidency announced a six-member committee of "independent...

 More than 400,000 people have been displaced in northwestern Syria over the past three months, the UN said Friday, as the government presses an intensified bombardment of the rebel-held region. “More than 400,000 people have been displaced since the end of April,” said David...

Air strikes by the Syrian regime and its allies on schools, hospitals, markets and bakeries have killed at least 103 civilians in the past 10 days, including 26 children, U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said in a statement on Friday. "These are civilian objects, and it seems...

The U.N. human rights chief Friday condemned "international indifference" in the face of mounting deaths in Syria, warning that those responsible for air strikes targeting civilians could be charged with war crimes. Since late April, the Syrian regime and Russia have stepped up deadly raids...

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey is determined to destroy what he called a "terror corridor" in northern Syrian regardless of whether or not Turkey and the United States agree on the establishment of a safe zone. Turkish and U.S. officials have been holding talks for...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime military uncovered Thursday a mass grave containing the bodies of 13 soldiers in southern Daraa province. The corpses inside the mass grave were believed to be soldiers served in the Brigade 61 near the town of Nawa. Local activists said...

Somewhere on its journey from the waters off Iran, around Africa's southern tip and into the Mediterranean, the Grace 1 oil tanker lost the flag under which it sailed and ceased to be registered to Panama. Iran later claimed it as its own. The ship carrying 2 million barrels of Iranian...

French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss Brexit in the coming weeks with new U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and has invited Johnson to France for a visit in the next few weeks, said an official from Macron's Elysee office Friday. The official said the two leaders had spoken...

Protesters in Hong Kong have taken their cause to one of the busiest airports in the world. Demonstrators dressed in black filled the arrival hall Friday at Hong Kong International Airport, where they greeted international visitors with chants of "There are no riots, there's only tyranny!"...