Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif travelled to New York Saturday to a United Nations conference, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported, amid rising tension between Washington and Tehran. The United States and Iran are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear program and Washington...

Romanian tennis player Simona Halep beat her U.S. opponent Serena Williams 2-0 on Saturday to win the 2019 Wimbledon title in women's singles. Halep won against Williams in two sets with scores of 6-2, 6-2, an extraordinary performance in the final which was completed in 55 minutes....

 Syrian rescuers and activists say 11 civilians, including two families of four, have been killed in regime and Russian airstrikes inside Syria's last rebel stronghold. First responders known as White Helmets said airstrikes in Kfarya village Saturday killed a mother, her baby and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl has obtained the July's promotion list of 25 Brigadiers in the Syrian Air Force. Most of the top officers operate as military pilots who carried out deadly air strikes on the opposition areas during over the eight-year-old conflict that claimed the lives...

Hong Kong protesters clashed with police on Saturday in a town near the boundary with mainland China where thousands rallied against the presence of Chinese traders, seizing on another grievance following major unrest over an extradition bill. The demonstration in the Hong Kong territorial...

Two months of intensive airstrikes by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies, coupled with a fierce ground assault on rebel-controlled Idlib province, have killed hundreds of people and caused massive displacement while achieving little to no gain for President Bashar Assad....

Protests continued in at least three major cities of Myanmar, demanding justice for a three-year old girl, sexually assaulted in a private nursery school in the capital Nay Pyi Taw on May 16.    The incident has sparked a national outrage, with social media users launching an...

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's government is facing its first countrywide strike of traders on Saturday against a hike in taxes in current fiscal budget of 2019-20.   "We are observing a countrywide shutter down strike, all markets in major cities of the country are closed...

U.S. regulators have approved a $5 billion penalty to be levied on Facebook to settle a probe into the social network's privacy and data protection lapses, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The newspaper said the Federal Trade Commission approved the settlement in a 3-2 vote,...

Sudanese activists are urging people to join nationwide protests calling for justice for those who have been killed during the seven-month uprising. The Sudanese Professionals' Association, which has been spearheading the protests since December, says the "Justice First" marches mark 40...

The high-profile trial opened Saturday of a former Tehran mayor charged with murdering his wife, Iranian media reported. Prominent reformist Mohammad Ali Najafi appeared in a Tehran criminal court, accused of shooting his second wife Mitra Ostad at their home in the Iranian capital....

Iran-backed Hezbollah has reduced its forces in Syria as fighting died down though it still has fighters all over the country, its leader said on Friday. The heavily armed Lebanese Shi'ite movement has played a vital role in the war next door, helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia in July has finished the construction of a military settlement in coastal Latakia province, such a move to be followed by other settlements since the Russian military presence had been agreed for half a century in the war-torn country. A military...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seba al-Obeid, Syrian refugee girl lives in the Azraq camp is about to be deported as the Jordanian authorities give her one month notice to leave the kingdom with brother Abdullah. The decision came a few days after the Austrian government agreed for her family reunion...

The head of Lebanon's Tehran-backed Hezbollah said Friday that US ally Israel would not be "neutral" if a war broke out between the United States and Iran. And "Iran is able to bombard Israel with ferocity and force," Hassan Nasrallah said in an interview broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar...

Germany strongly condemned the Syrian regime and its allies on Friday for their recent airstrikes in the country's northwest that have killed and injured dozens of civilians.   A Foreign Ministry statement said at least three medical facilities funded by Germany were targeted in...

Roger Federer reached his 12th Wimbledon final on Friday, defeating old rival Rafael Nadal, 11 years after the Spaniard triumphed in their epic 2008 title showdown at the All England Club, a match widely regarded as the greatest ever played. The 37-year-old eight-time champion won 7-6...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said she will leave her job this month with a mixture of pride and disappointment after failing in her central pledge to lead the country out of the European Union and heal its divisions. May, who endured several crises in her failed effort to find a...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday to restrict President Donald Trump's ability to attack Iran, voicing fear that his hawkish policies are pushing toward a needless war. The Democratic-led House approved an amendment on a broad defense bill that would prohibit funding for...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said Friday discussions would "continue" over the composition of a body to draw up a post-war constitution for the country. Meeting with Russian envoy Alexander Lavrentiev, the president discussed ongoing efforts towards "creating a committee to discuss the...