The United Nations said Friday the potential of a full scale battle in Syria's Idlib province could result in the worst humanitarian catastrophe of the 21st century. Mark Lowcock, the UN's under-secretary-general and emergency relief coordinator, said any operation with full military force...

A recent New York Times article by Anne Barnard exposed Syria’s brutal system of torture prisons in horrific detail. While the exact number of Syrians who have passed through the system of arbitrary arrests and imprisonment is unknown, human rights groups estimate hundreds of thousands...

On the U.S. Caesar Act  that seeks turn up the financial pressure on Bashar Assad  and his regime ,  Zaman al-Wasl has interviewed Samir Seifan,  a  prominent Syrian Economist, to shed the light  on most controversial issues of the Syrian economy....

In the event of war with the United States, Iran “will not be alone.” That message was delivered by the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group to a mass rally in Beirut in February marking the 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. “If America launches war on Iran, it will not...

The Kremlin said on Friday it would respond in kind to a new round of U.S. sanctions on Russian nationals, saying its retaliation would be consistent with Russia’s national interest. The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on a Chechen group and five people, including at least three...

Egypt has deported 33 Sudanese migrants who were trying to reach Libya to head onward to Europe. Cairo airport officials said Friday the Sudanese were arrested earlier this month in the western coastal city of Marsa Matruh, not far from Libya's border, along with dozens of Egyptians and...

Dozens of international aid groups say conditions in Syria's northwest have reached "crisis point" and are calling for an immediate end to the fighting. The aid groups said, in an appeal issued Friday, violence has displaced an estimated 180,000 people in the last two weeks. The clashes...

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen carried out several air strikes on the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday after the Iranian-aligned movement claimed responsibility for drone attacks on Saudi oil installations. The Sanaa strikes targeted nine military sites in and around the...

Dejan Lovren believes Liverpool will be Premier League title contenders again next season, saying they are still improving under Jurgen Klopp. Liverpool were pipped to the title by Manchester City by a single point despite reaching 97 points -- the third-highest tally in Premier League...

Hundreds of demonstrators worked through the night into Friday clearing away bricks and debris, after military rulers demanded that roadblocks which have paralysed parts of Khartoum must be dismantled before talks on a new transitional body can resume. The ruling military council suspended...

Asian markets were mixed Friday as another rally on Wall Street and data indicating a strong US economy were offset by the increasingly tense trade and technology stand-off between China and the United States. The long-running Brexit saga also moved back into view, with the pound sinking to...

Oil prices rose again on Friday and were on track for the first weekly gains this month, as rising tensions in the Middle East stoked fears of supply disruptions. Brent crude futures were at $73.00 a barrel at 0303 GMT, up 38 cents, or 0.5%, from their last close, rising for a fourth...

A US federal court in New York on Thursday convicted a man of charges that he bought weapons and plotted attacks on behalf of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah. Ali Kourani, a 34-year-old American of Lebanese descent, was convicted of eight allegations including conspiracy to use weapons...

Attacks on Saudi and UAE oil assets built to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important waterway in the Gulf, have raised fears that alternative routes could be vulnerable. Four ships including two Saudi oil tankers were damaged in mysterious sabotage attacks Sunday off...

Families who fled Syrian government and Russian strikes in northwestern Syria are sleeping in an olive grove near the Turkish border without enough food and no place else to go. They are some of the 180,000 people who have escaped an upsurge in violence in the last major Syrian rebel...

The UN Security Council will meet Friday to discuss the surge of fighting in northwest Syria, the second meeting on the worsening violence in as many weeks, diplomats said. Syrian forces and their Russian allies have stepped up attacks on the jihadist-controlled Idlib region since late...

Iraq's national carrier is to resume flights to the capital of neighbouring Syria for the first time since the war there erupted in 2011, a spokesman said Thursday. Iraqi Airways will operate a weekly service from Baghdad to Damascus starting Saturday, spokesman Layth al-Rubaie told AFP....

Yemen's warring parties Thursday failed to agree on how to manage revenues from Hodeida port that could help relieve the urgent humanitarian needs of millions, delegates and U.N. sources at U.N.-facilitated discussions in Jordan said. Both sides differed in separate talks with U.N. teams on...

Russia on Thursday presented a draft resolution to the Security Council accusing the UN's chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, of politicization just weeks before a new probe begins of chemical attacks in Syria. The draft text, seen by AFP, states that the Council -- where Russia holds veto...

A US official said Thursday that Iranian missiles loaded on small boats in the Persian Gulf were among the "threats" that have triggered a beefed-up military deployment in the region. "The missiles on civilian boats are a concern," said the official, who asked not to be named. The...