A Yemeni human rights group says civilians are paying the human cost of the country's five-year war. In a report Tuesday released in Paris, Mwatana for Human Rights says humanitarian aid has been blocked at a time of impending famine and civilians can no longer move around the country...

The United States looks set to break a promise not to hold military exercises with South Korea, putting talks aimed at getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons at risk, the North Korean Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The United States’ pattern of “unilaterally reneging on its...

Iran confirmed on Tuesday it had detained French-Iranian scholar Fariba Adelkhah but declined to give any more details, a day after Paris demanded information on her case. French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was worried by the arrest of the 60-year-old anthropologist, an...

Three medics were killed on Tuesday in an airstrike carried out by Eastern Libyan forces led by military  commander Khalifa Haftar, according to forces aligned with the Tripoli-based government.  The attack targeted a field hospital in southern Tripoli, the forces of the...

The Syrian regime is abusing a 2012 counter-terrorism law to punish the families of suspects by freezing their assets, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday, charging it amounted to "collective punishment". "By penalizing people solely on the basis of their family relationship with an accused...

Sudan's feared paramilitaries have beaten and tortured to death a civilian in a town in war-torn Darfur, a doctors committee linked to the protest movement said Tuesday. The civilian died on Monday in El-Daen, in East Darfur state, after members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) clashed...

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Tuesday Iran would continue to reduce its commitments under its nuclear deal, accusing European partners of not fulfilling their obligations. "According to our foreign minister, Europe made 11 commitments, none of which they abided by. We...

Regime airstrikes on Tuesday killed nine civilians in rebel-held northwest Syria, the target of months of regime and Russian bombardment, a war monitor said. Three children were among the 12 killed outside Maaret al-Numan, a town located in a southern strip of Idlib province, said the...

Saudi vice minister of defense Khalid bin Salman stressed Saudi support for a political solution in Yemen in a meeting with U.N. special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths on Monday. The vice minister said in a tweet that he met with the special envoy to “emphasize our commitment to the...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned Monday that the United States is "playing with fire," echoing remarks by President Donald Trump as the two sides are locked in a standoff over Tehran's nuclear program. The United States quit an international deal aimed at curbing Iran's...

European Union decisions to curb contacts and funding for Turkey over its drilling for gas and oil off Cyprus will not affect its determination to continue energy activities in the region, the Turkish foreign ministry said Tuesday. The ministry said the EU's failure to mention Turkish...

Scores of Sudanese demonstrators took to the streets in a Khartoum district on Monday night to protest against the killing of a civilian allegedly by paramilitaries the previous day. Riot police looked on as a crowd waved Sudanese flags and chanted revolutionary slogans in the capital's...

President Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks against four minority U.S. congresswomen on Monday and dismissed concerns that his comments were racist, prompting outrage from Democrats, who moved to condemn him in the House of Representatives. Speaking at the White House, Trump said...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The 13-year-old Siba al-Daddo has died of a heart attack due to the regime bombing on her rebel-held area in northern Aleppo province, local activists said Monday. The heavy aerial and ground bombardment on the town of al-Eys in the southern countryside of Aleppo...

The outbreak of Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Goma town has raised fears the deadly disease could spread to Rwanda. Goma shares border with Rwanda, with an estimated 100,000 people crossing the border from either country daily for various businesses, according to...

Expressing solidarity with the Turkish nation on the third anniversary of the failed 2016 July coup attempt, a Kashmiri lawmaker said in a statement that the people of Turkey set a "historic example of steadfastness". "[Turks] sacrificed [their lives] to uphold democracy and humanity,...

President Donald Trump defended Monday his tweets singling out four Democratic U.S. congresswomen of color, falsely claiming "these are people who hate our country." Trump issued the controversial tweets Sunday against "'Progressive' Democrat Congresswomen," whom he did not name, but...

A row over taxing tech giants is set to dominate a meeting of G-7 finance ministers near Paris this week, with the world’s leading industrialized nations already riven by disruptive U.S. trade policies. During the meetings Wednesday and Thursday in Chantilly, ministers are set to discuss making...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least  31 Civil Defense facilities were hit by the Syrian regime and allied Russian forces in the 2-month-old offensive on northwestern Syria,  according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). The London-based monitoring group said in a 26-page...

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Monday to extend its ceasefire observation mission in the Yemeni port city of Hodeida by six months, until January 15 2020. It also called on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to deploy a full contingent of observers "expeditiously" in the...