Twelve suspected militants were killed Monday in police raids near Cairo, Egypt's interior ministry said, a day after a bomb blast injured 17 people including tourists near the Giza pyramids. Security forces "carried out a raid against an apartment in the 6th of October district used for...

The Palestinians have not been consulted about a U.S.-led conference in Bahrain next month designed to encourage international investment in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said Monday. "The cabinet wasn't consulted about the reported...

Tens of thousands of people in Indian Kashmir have been subjected to torture in the past three decades, according to a report released Monday by two prominent human rights groups which called for a UN investigation. The report said at least 40 people in 432 case studies researched died "as...

Air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia have killed 10 civilians including five children in a northwestern jihadist bastion, a monitor said Monday, hours after Moscow announced a ceasefire there. Clashes between regime forces and jihadists raged Monday on the edge of the region held by...

Sudan’s army rulers and protest leaders said more talks were planned for Monday on finalising the makeup of a new ruling body, after hours of negotiations through the night ended without agreement. Both sides have been at loggerheads over the new governing body that would rule Sudan for a...

Voting in India's election ended Sunday with the seventh and final phase of a grueling poll that lasted more than five weeks, as exit polls predicted a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party and its allies. Vote counting begins on Thursday, and the election...

Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday. The move is a blow to the Chinese technology...

President Donald Trump on Sunday told Iran not to threaten the United States, saying it will be Tehran's "official end".  "If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!" Trump tweeted. He did not elaborate on the nature of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria’s Prime Minister Emad Khamis gave his cabinet and mayors two months to remove the "violating and damaged" buildings in Damascus suburbs, such a decision reflects the regime’s thirst for controolly more prpotrtpers in ‘legal act’, local activists said. Al Watan, a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Representatives of the Syrian displaced offices in the border city of Afrin called to a protest against the Turkish decision to close their offices, saying Turkey seeks to force the displaced to settle in northern Syria and to bar them from the right to return....

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling alliance is likely to win a big majority in parliament after a mammoth general election that ended on Sunday, most exit polls showed, a far better showing than expected in recent weeks. Modi faced criticism early on in the campaign for failing to...

Saudi Arabian Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Sunday that recent attacks on Saudi energy assets had put security of oil supply at risk but not affected his country’s output. He also called on Saudi Arabia’s partners to condemn the attacks. Four commercial ships were sabotaged...

Venezuelan Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo said on Sunday his country’s economy and oil industry was under economic and financial siege by the U.S. government. “This therefore generates disturbances in the flow of oil supply to the world market as well as serious economic damage and suffering...

Sri Lanka's president marked the 10th anniversary of the end of a protracted war with Tamil rebels Sunday by vowing to crush Islamist militants responsible for Easter bombings that killed 258 people. Maithripala Sirisena said Sri Lankan security forces and intelligence units could use their...

Saudi Arabia announced Sunday it deposited $250 million in Sudan's central bank as part of a support package for the country following the overthrow of longtime leader Omar al-Bashir. "The ministry of finance has deposited 937.5 million Saudi riyals into the central bank of Sudan," it said...

The Arab League called Sunday on the German Parliament to rescind a resolution that condemned a boycott movement against Israel as "anti-Semitic." The call by the pan-Arab bloc comes after the Bundestag passed a motion Friday against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement,...

A win by Marine le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National party in next week’s European parliament elections could hurt the euro and damage the French economy and industries, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday. Opinion polls show Le Pen’s party, formerly known as the National...

An explosion targeting a tourist bus injured at least 12 people near a new museum being built close to the Giza pyramids in Egypt on Sunday, two security sources said. Most of those injured were foreign tourists, the sources said. One security source said they included South African...

Russia says Syrian regime forces have unilaterally ceased fire in the northern Idlib province, the last major rebel stronghold. Fighting erupted in Idlib late last month, effectively shattering a cease-fire negotiated by Russia and Turkey that had been in place since September. Russia has...

U.N. human rights investigators have told Italy that a proposed decree formalizing the closure of Italian ports to aid groups that rescue migrants at sea violates international law. In a letter to Italy's government, the investigators said the decree appears to be "yet another political...