Around 1,000 people have gathered in central Moscow to demand that opposition candidates be included on ballots for an upcoming city parliament election in September. The rally was billed as a meeting between opposition leaders and their voters after signatures sponsoring several...

Last summer Rida, a 29-year-old father of three from Syria, decided it was time to cross the border from Lebanon and head back home. His native city of Homs had been devastated during Syria’s civil war, but seven years after he fled it was back under the control of forces loyal to President...

Syrian state-run media say a militant attack has shut down a gas pipeline in the country’s centre. The SANA news agency said Sunday that technical teams are working to fix the pipeline that runs through the central Homs province, linking the Shaer fields to the Ebla processing plant. It did...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Lebanese lawyer has uncovered a judicial scandal that took place in the palace of justice in Zahle town. The disappearance of the judicial file of the case of his client, the Syrian army defector Mohamed Nassif, in order to conceal the case in which five members of Hezbollah...

European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel joined French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday for the traditional Bastille Day military parade in Paris which this year honored European military cooperation. After riding down the iconic Champs Elysees boulevard in a military...

Iran’s breaching of caps on its uranium enrichment after the United States pulled out of world powers’ nuclear deal with Tehran was “a bad reaction to ... (a) bad decision”, raising fears of a stumble into war, France’s foreign minister said. Tensions have risen as Washington has blamed...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday warned the head of Hezbollah that "crushing" retaliation would follow any attack, after its leader said the group's rockets could reach Tel Aviv. "Over the weekend we heard [Hasan] Nasrallah's boasting about his attack plans," he said at the...

Since the Syrian civil war began, and as millions were internally displaced or fled the country, Lebanon has felt the effect. Approximately 1.5 million Syrians reside in Lebanon, which has a population of 6 million. The situation is the responsibility of Lebanon’s government, one it does...

 Britain's ambassador to Washington believed US President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal because it was associated with his predecessor Barack Obama, according to leaked documents published Saturday. "The administration is set upon an act of diplomatic vandalism,...

Hong Kong protesters are set to rally for a second day on Sunday in an area popular with mainland Chinese shoppers as anger over the government’s handling of an extradition bill revives other grievances, such as an influx of cross-border visitors. On Saturday, a largely peaceful...

China’s military recently carried out air and naval drills along its southeast coast, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday, following the latest arms sales from the United States to self-ruled Taiwan, which China claims as a renegade province. In a brief statement, and without giving an...

Kuwait’s navy and ports authority will prepare security plans to protect the key OPEC exporter’s ports, state news agency KUNA said on Saturday, amid heightened tensions between Iran and the West. A joint cooperation protocol was signed “at an important period which the region is passing...

Brainwashed and broken, the Islamic State group's youngest victims are struggling to recover from years of jihadist captivity as they return to their own traumatised minority communities in Iraq. Dozens of Yazidi and Turkmen children were rescued in recent months as IS's "caliphate",...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Russian Military Police patrol was rocked Saturday by an improvised explosive device (IED) in the southern province of Daraa, such an attack sparks fears of the revival of the armed opposition, activists said. The IED was set off near the town of Busra al-Sham east of...

Iran will continue its oil exports under any conditions, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told his British counterpart Jeremy Hunt in a telephone call on Saturday, according to a statement on the Iranian foreign ministry website. Zarif also said Britain should quickly release...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said that Turkey was preparing a series of policy changes regarding the country’s Syrian refugees, including the deportation of criminals and ending free healthcare services. “We are preparing to take new steps. We are going to...

Lewis Hamilton brushed off questions about his lifestyle and heaped praise on his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas after the Finn had beaten him Saturday to pole position for the British Grand Prix. The five-time world champion rejected suggestions that his regular trans-Atlantic...

Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators took to the streets in cities across the country on Saturday, witnesses said, to mark 40 days since security forces stormed a protest camp in the capital Khartoum, killing dozens. The protests were the first since the ruling military council and civilian...

The European Union's foreign policy chief says the EU is fully supportive of an Iraqi proposal to hold a regional conference amid rising tensions between the United States and Iran. Iraq is an ally of the two rival nations, which are on a collision course as the Iran nuclear deal threatens...

British foreign minister Jeremy Hunt told his Iranian counterpart Saturday that Britain would facilitate the release of the detained Grace 1 oil tanker if Tehran gave guarantees it would not go to Syria. The tanker was seized last week by British Royal Marines off the coast of the British...