(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists and opposition media have accused Iran-backed militias of looting antiquities of the historic cities of Aleppo and Palmyra. The SY24 news site said that an Iranian organization is excavating archaeological in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo...

Finland’s Nokia Oyj is not immune from the trade war between the United States and China which has caused economic uncertainty, the company’s Greater China president said on Tuesday. “The uncertainty has impacted the investor community and the economy at large. At Nokia we are not totally...

Mexico has deployed almost 15,000 soldiers and National Guard in the north of the country to stem the flow of illegal immigration across the border into the United States, the head of the Mexican Army said on Monday. Mexico has not traditionally used security forces to stop undocumented...

Hong Kong activists have raised more than HK$5 million ($640,500) in a crowdfunding campaign to take out newspaper ads in a bid to get a controversial extradition bill on the agenda at the G20 summit. Millions have taken to the streets of the former British colony this month to protest...

The Transitional Military Council (TMC) in Sudan has declared the release of all prisoners who took part in rebel movements in recent years, its deputy chair said Monday. Addressing crowds in the country's capital of Khartoum, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who is also chief of the country's Rapid...

Boris Johnson, the favourite to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May, has acknowledged that London would need cooperation from the European Union to cushion potential shocks in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Johnson has repeatedly insisted Britain should leave the bloc on the current...

Iran said on Tuesday that new US sanctions targeting the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials meant a “permanent closure” of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing the sanctions on Monday,...

Venezuela's former intelligence chief, Cristopher Figuera, who fled the country after backing a failed uprising against President Nicolas Maduro in April, has told the Washington Post the regime could still fall. "I'm proud of what I did," he said in an interview published online late...

Israel blocked fuel deliveries to the Gaza Strip Tuesday, citing new incendiary balloons from the Palestinian enclave. The move follows "the release of arson balloons from the Gaza Strip toward the State of Israel" which caused fires across the border, the Israeli defence ministry...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Behind the bars of Roumieh, the notorious Lebanese prison, and inside a cell Bock B, dwells Abdul Razzaq al-Adam, a Syrian disabled detainee, for more than two years without trial and without an attorney. Despite his disability, the Lebanese authorities have detained him, a...

The regime of Bashar Assad attacked Syria's opposition-held Idlib province on Sunday night, using banned white phosphorus bombs. Footage obtained by Daily Sabah allegedly shows the regime dropping 18 phosphorus bombs on the town of Khan Shaykhun in southern Idlib. The attacks were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A tribal clashe broke out two weeks ago after an attack by the US-backed forces and allied tribesmen on the Albufrio tribe in Khabur region north of Deir Ezzor province. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an attack on Al-Nimaliyah and Abu Al-Naitel villages,...

(Action Group For Palestinians Of Syria)- Palestinian ex-prisoner Ahmad Khamis who had been released from Israeli jails as part of an Israel-Russian swap deal was re-arrested by Syrian security forces. Informed sources told AGPS that Khamis has been subjected to exhaustive interrogation...

A U.S.-led peace conference on the Palestinian economy could present Washington with a new opportunity to push Gulf allies and Israel closer together as tensions with common foe Iran rise. The Palestinian Authority is boycotting the Peace to Prosperity conference that opens Tuesday in Bahrain,...

Iraq’s parliament approved on Monday three more ministers, including the defense and interior portfolios put forward by Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, lawmakers said. But the nominee for minister of education, the only remaining portfolio, failed to get enough votes. Najah...

Upcoming peace talks between the United States and the Taliban will focus on working out a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan and on a Taliban guarantee militants won’t plot attacks from Afghan soil, sources said on Monday. A seventh round of talks between the...

The new economic sanctions that the United States is preparing to impose on Iran will have no "impact," a spokesman for the Islamic republic's foreign ministry said Monday. "We really do not know what [the new sanctions] are and what they want to target anymore, and also do not consider...

U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to talk to Iran about a deal that would lift American sanctions but Tehran would need to curtain its nuclear and missile program, as well as its support for proxies, a senior U.S. official said Monday. U.S. Special Representative on Iran Brian Hook told...

Washington's deployment of land-based missile systems near Russia's borders could lead to a standoff comparable to the Cuban missile crisis, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying Monday. Russia has been fiercely critical of U.S. plans to deploy missile systems...

Saudi Arabia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs warned Iran there would be more sanctions if it continued its "aggressive polices," but said Riyadh wanted to avoid war. "Today, Iran is under severe economic sanctions," Adel al-Jubeir told Le Monde newspaper in an interview published...