The Islamic State group may have lost its "caliphate", but three months later, experts have warned the jihadists are still attacking fighters and fields in Syria to show they remain relevant. The Syrian Democratic Forces announced they had expelled the extremists from their last patch of...

The death toll from a brain disease that has stricken children in India's Bihar state rose above 150 on Monday as a court ordered an investigation into the crisis. The country's Supreme Court also demanded the government explain what measures it has taken to combat the spread of Acute...

US President Donald Trump will visit South Korea at the weekend after the G20 summit to discuss deadlocked nuclear talks with the North with President Moon Jae-in, Seoul's presidential office said Monday. Trump will fly to the South Korean capital on Saturday after attending the G20 summit...

The UN rights chief called Monday for countries to repatriate family members of suspected foreign fighters in Syria, including some 29,000 foreign children of Islamic State group jihadists. The situation of foreign fighters and their families topped a long line of concerns listed by...

Finance officials were flying into Bahrain on Monday for a US-led peace conference that holds out billions of dollars for the Palestinians, whose leaders pronounced the idea dead on arrival. Led by President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, the Peace to Prosperity...

Sudanese authorities must grant human rights monitors access to the country and end "repression" against protesters and the shutdown of the Internet, U.N. human rights boss Michelle Bachelet said Monday. Bachelet, in a speech opening a three-week session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in...

Iran said Monday that no cyber attack against the Islamic republic has ever succeeded, after American media reported the U.S. launched one last week amid a standoff between the two countries. "The media are asking about the veracity of the alleged cyber attack against Iran. No successful...

The trial against 16 people accused of terror charges and organizing anti-government protests in 2013 has begun in Turkey as rights groups say the allegations are baseless. The trial is taking place Monday and Tuesday in a prison complex on Istanbul's outskirts. The 657-page indictment...

If the United States wants Iran to offer concessions that go beyond the terms of its 2015 nuclear deal, Washington must offer incentives that also exceed those in the deal, an adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Monday. The comments were a rare indication from Tehran that it...

U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said Monday that 55,000 former Daesh (ISIS) fighters, including foreigners, and their families detained in Syria and Iraq should face fair prosecution or be freed. States "must assume responsibility for their nationals" and should not inflict...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived Monday in Saudi Arabia for talks on coordinating with the close ally amid mounting tensions with Iran. Pompeo is expected to meet in the Red Sea city of Jeddah with King Salman and the powerful crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, before flying for...

A Yemeni rebel attack on a civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia killed a Syrian national and wounded 21 other civilians Sunday, a Riyadh-led coalition said, in a new escalation following a series of strikes on the site. The attack on Abha airport, which the coalition said left a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The unstable security condition in southern Daraa province has been leading to critical events due to the regime’s revenge policy despite reconciliation deals. Local activists say the frustration is mounting due to the regime’s security policies of arbitrary arrest and...

Five underwater pipelines have been damaged and put out of order after a sabotage attack off the coastal town of Banias, Syria's oil ministry said Sunday. The damage was discovered after divers checked to see what was behind an oil leakage, the ministry said. The ministry gave no...

Lewis Hamilton extended his championship lead and continued his relentless run of success when he scorched to an emphatic victory ahead of Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas at the French Grand Prix Sunday. The defending five-time champion repeated his pole-to-flag triumph of 2018 with a...

In a blow to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an opposition candidate declared victory in the Istanbul mayor's race for a second time Sunday after the government-backed candidate conceded defeat in a high-stakes repeat election. Thank you, Istanbul," former businessman Ekrem...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Sunday he was confident a peace conference this week in Bahrain would fail. "We are certain that the workshop in Manama will not be successful," Abbas, who is boycotting the US-led conference focussed on the Palestinian economy, told journalists....

Sudan's protest movement accepted an Ethiopian roadmap for a civilian-led transitional government, a spokesman said Sunday, after a months-long standoff with the country's military rulers. Ethiopia has led diplomatic efforts to bring the protest and military leaders back to the negotiating...

The opposition candidate in the controversial replay of Istanbul's mayoral election was headed for a comfortable victory Sunday, dealing a blow to the ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan's candidate, Binali Yildirim, conceded defeat as initial results showed his opponent...

Any conflict in the Gulf region may spread uncontrollably and threaten the lives of U.S. troops, a senior Iranian military commander said Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would impose further sanctions on the Islamic Republic. While flagging more sanctions, Trump had also...