European Union foreign ministers are still looking for more information on who might be behind the attacks on two oil tankers traveling near the Strait of Hormuz and called for utmost restraint. At Monday's meeting of EU foreign ministers, Germany and others insisted they need a clearer...

Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday that countries need to cooperate on keeping shipping lanes open for oil and other energy supplies after last week's tanker attacks in the Middle East to ensure stable supplies. While he did not outline any concrete steps after the...

Sudan's protest leaders are calling for nighttime demonstrations and marches in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country, amid a tense standoff with the ruling military. The protest leaders said Monday they've begun a "revolutionary escalation" to pressure the country's generals...

A spokesman for Iran's atomic agency says the country will break the uranium stockpile limit set by Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers in the next 10 days. Behrouz Kamalvandi made the comment in a news conference carried live on Iranian state television Monday. He says that...

Ali Haddad, a key backer of Algeria's former leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika and one of the country's top businessmen, was jailed for six months Monday for holding two passports, state television reported. The former head of Algeria’s business confederation was arrested in late March on the...

Activist Joshua Wong, who has become the face of Hong Kong’s push for full democracy, walked free from prison on Monday and vowed to join a mass protest movement demanding that the city’s Beijing-backed leader, Carrie Lam, steps down. His release comes as a political crisis in the...

Yemen’s Houthi movement launched a new drone attack targeting the Abha regional airport in southern Saudi Arabia, the group’s Al-Masirah TV said on Monday. There was no immediate Saudi confirmation of the attack. The Houthis have launched several strikes targeting Abha since last week,...

While tens of thousands of Algerians have been gathering for four months in the capital to demand sweeping political reforms, former fighters who led the last confrontation with the establishment have been warning people not to rock the boat. In the 1990s, they drove an uprising against the...

Boris Johnson got a boost for his bid to replace British Prime Minister Theresa May when one of his former rivals backed his candidacy Monday and said he was almost certain to win the contest. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who dropped out of the race on Friday after winning just 20 votes...

Huawei's founder likened his company to a badly damaged plane Monday and said revenues will be $30 billion less than forecast over the next two years. The Chinese telecom giant will reduce capacity but U.S. moves to restrict its business "will not stop us," Ren Zhengfei, who is also the...

A rocket fire has killed 12 civilians in a regime-held village in northwestern Syria, state-run news agency SANA has said blaming former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham for the attack. SANA said 15 people were also wounded late Sunday in the attack on Al-Wadihi village south of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of Syrians refugees and residents in France did not find words more profound and truthful to immortalize Abdul Basset Sarout on Sunday than his own slogans and songs that once chanted in Syria’s demonstrations, asserting that his blood will be a beacon for them in the path...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- After a year in detention in the notorious Saydnaya prison, Mahmoud (pseudonym) was presented on the regime’s counter-terrorism court in the capital, handcuffed and clearly tortured.  At the time, he was charged with terrorism, with no chance of defending...

Israel approved in principle on Sunday a new community named after U.S. President Donald Trump on a contested frontier zone with Syria - but construction looked likely to lag given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's political stumbles. The "Trump Heights" project is intended to cement ties...

The Kremlin Sunday warned against "baseless accusations" over last week's attacks in the Gulf of Oman on two oil tankers, blamed by Washington and Riyadh on Iran. "Such incidents can undermine the foundations of the world economy. That's why it's hardly possible to accept baseless...

Israelis will attend a U.S-led conference in Bahrain next week on proposals for the Palestinian economy as part of a coming peace plan, Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Sunday. The United States has billed the gathering as a workshop to boost the Palestinian economy as part of a broader...

A top Sudanese general vowed Sunday to send to the "gallows" those who carried out a deadly crackdown on protesters earlier this month that killed dozens and left hundreds wounded. "We are working hard to take those who did this to the gallows," Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy chief of the...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologized on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of black-clad protesters maintained calls for her to resign over her handling of a bill that would have allowed people to be sent to mainland China for trial. The chief executive issued the rare apology one day after...

Sudan’s ex-president Omar al-Bashir appeared in public on Sunday for the first time since he was overthrown, as he was taken out of prison to the office of the anti-corruption prosecutor. Bashir, wearing traditional white robes and turban, was driven in a Toyota Land Cruiser to the...

Maurizio Sarri Sunday left Chelsea after one season to return to Italy to manage Juventus. The former Napoli coach joined Serie A champion Juventus on a three-year contract to replace Massimiliano Allegri. Sarri won the Europa League with Chelsea, beating Arsenal in his final game in...