Spain’s acting prime minister Pedro Sanchez looked all but certain to fail in a parliamentary confirmation vote later on Thursday after coalition talks with far-left Unidas Podemos collapsed, raising the risk of a repeat election. Sanchez, who won an April parliamentary poll but fell short...

North Korea test-fired two new short-range missiles on Thursday, South Korean officials said, the first such launch since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to revive stalled denuclearization talks last month. South Korea’s Defence Ministry urged the...

Turkish and U.S. officials will continue to discuss a planned safe zone in northern Syria, Turkish military officials said on Thursday after Ankara warned that it would launch a cross-border operation if a deal was not reached. Following a U.S. decision to withdraw from northern Syria, the...

 Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi has died at the age of 92, the presidency announced on Wednesday, following a number of health scares. "Tunisian President Mohammed Beji Essebsi has passed away on 25 July, 2019 at 10:25am in the military hospital in Tunisia, may he be...

Israeli forces detained 16 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the military on Thursday.  A military statement said the individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror activities", without elaborating...

President Donald Trump Wednesday vetoed a trio of congressional resolutions aimed at blocking his administration from bypassing Congress and selling billions of dollars in weapons and maintenance support to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last month...

Three bombs rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday, with one hitting a bus carrying government employees, killing a total of at least 12 people, officials said. Five employees of the ministry of mines and petroleum were killed and 10 wounded in the bus attack, the officials said,...

The Sudanese Army on Wednesday foiled a coup attempt plotted by Lt. General Hashim Abdul Motalib Ahmed, the country's head of the joint chiefs of staff.   Earlier on July 11, Sudan's ruling military council had announced that it thwarted a military coup, just days after the...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they launched a drone attack on King Khalid airbase in Saudi Arabia on Thursday. In a statement, rebel spokesman Yahya Sarei said the attack targeted aprons where fighter jets are located at the base in the southwestern city of Khamis Mushait. "The attack was...

Tunisia's president was brought to a military hospital Thursday in the capital, Tunis. Beji Caid Essebsi was hospitalized over health concerns, said a source on condition of anonymity. No other information was shared about Essebsi's health. The 92-year-old president was taken to a...

Maha al-Nasser queues in front of a crowded clinic in Syria's Al-Hol camp, her frail daughter squirmingin her arms under the stifling desert heat. "My daughter has suffered from convulsions and malnutrition," said 30-year-old Nasser, her face covered in a black veil. "When she...

Bombardment by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally killed 18 civilians including five children in northwest Syria Wednesday, a monitoring group said, in the latest violence to hit the opposition bastion. Among these, 10 civilians including three children, all from the same family,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Saudi Interior Ministry said the number of Syrians held over security charges by the kingdom’s General Investigation Directorate has reached a total of 259, according to statement issued Tuesday. The Syrian detainees occupy the second place in the list of foreigners...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) on Wednesday has arrested Zaman al-Wasl reporter Juma'a Haj Hamdo from his house in the western countryside of Aleppo.  According to the initial information, al-Hamdo had been taken to an unknown destination....

Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday designated Yousef Huneiti as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, the state-run media reported.  Maj. Gen. Huneiti -- former commander of Royal Jordanian Air Force -- replaced Lit. Gen. Mahmoud Friehat with a Royal...

A recent UN report on Venezuela paints a devastating portrait of the country’s economic, social, and political situation, but overlooks the U.S. role in the suffering, said an American expert. According to Gabriel Hetland of University at Albany, the UN report, released earlier in July, has...

The top military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Tehran would not negotiate with the United States under any circumstances, an apparent hardening of its position as the Gulf tanker crisis escalates. The Swedish operator of a British-flagged oil...

Sri Lanka's Easter attacks that killed 258 people were carried out by local Islamists who drew inspiration from but were not linked to the Islamic State group, a top investigator said Wednesday. Ravi Seneviratne, the head of the Criminal Investigations Department, said the suicide bombers...

Boris Johnson arrived at Buckingham Palace Wednesday to formally take up his duties as Britain's new prime minister after Theresa May tendered her resignation, AFP reporters saw. Johnson, who is the 14th British prime minister to serve under Queen Elizabeth II, was briefly delayed after...

Facebook Inc confirmed on Wednesday it will pay $5 billion to resolve a Federal Trade Commission investigation of its privacy practices and said it was ending access to friend data by Microsoft Corp and Sony Corp as a first step under the settlement. Facebook said the data was related to...