Jared Kushner revealed new contours Thursday on the upcoming US peace plan for the Middle East, indicating that it will pull back from longstanding mentions of a two-state solution with the Palestinians and accept Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Kushner, the son-in-law and senior adviser to...

Talks between Turkey and the United States on Syria were "positive and constructive", a spokesperson for the U.S. embassy in Ankara said Thursday. RaeJean Stokes said U.S. Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey held a series of meetings Wednesday in Turkey’s capital with senior Turkish...

Turkey and the United States are getting closer to an agreement on the details of a planned safe zone in northeast Syria along the Turkish border, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday. Cavusoglu was responding to a question at a news conference about Turkish talks this...

Sudan’s public prosecutor has ordered the interrogation of ousted President Omar al-Bashir on suspicion of money laundering and financing terrorism, a judicial source told Reuters on Thursday. In April, the prosecutor began investigating Bashir over accusations of money laundering and...

A Moroccan court adjourned Thursday for two weeks the trial of two dozen suspects charged in connection with the murder of two Scandinavian hikers minutes after it opened. Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and 28-year-old Norwegian Maren Ueland had their throats slit before...

President Donald Trump appealed on Monday for a swift end to the "brutal repression" of the Venezuelan people, following an abortive military uprising in support of the US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido. "I'd like to begin by sending our prayers to the people of Venezuela in their...

Schools, health facilities and residential areas have been hit by the worst barrel bombing campaign in rebel-held northwestern Syria in 15 months, the United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator Panos Moumtzis told Reuters Thursday. Russian and Syrian forces intensified air strikes and...

 Venezuelan President Nicol?s Maduro has called for military unity in an appearance with soldiers, two days after security forces failed to respond to opposition leader Juan Guaid's call for an uprising. Flanked by commanders, Maduro said on national television Thursday that the...

At least eight Africa migrants have died in makeshift camps in war-hit Yemen, the U.N.'s migration agency said Thursday, warning thousands were living under "inhumane conditions". The International Organization for Migration said they had died of complications related to acute watery...

An Iranian tanker was forced to seek repairs at a Saudi port after suffering "engine failure and loss of control", the Iranian oil ministry's SHANA news agency reported Thursday. The rare docking in Iran's regional arch-foe, came as Washington was poised to end all remaining exemptions to...

Five civilians were killed in attacks by Assad regime forces on residential areas located inside northern Syria’s de-escalation zones, local sources said Thursday. Overnight airstrikes and artillery attacks targeted the villages of Kansafra, Termela, Bsekla Has and Abdin in Idlib province,...

The UAE said on Thursday that fighting "terrorism" was the priority in Libya, where it has backed a controversial military strongman against the UN-recognised government in Tripoli. The United Arab Emirates, and its allies Egypt and Saudi Arabia, regard Khalifa Haftar and his Libyan...

Hundreds of protesters in Benin manning burning barricades defied police and soldiers Thursday, after violence broke out following controversial parliamentary polls held without a single opposition candidate. A woman died on Thursday after being wounded the day before, medical sources said,...

The Syrin Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said Thursday it had documented more than 459 cases of arbitrary arrests in April, including 272 cases of enforced disappearance. Arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances have been amongst the most common and widespread violations since the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Archive activists managed to recover 150,000 videos deleted by YouTube in November 2017 after activating artificial intelligence.  The channel deleted hundreds of thousands of videos at the beginning of this year on the pretext of fighting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In the border town of Arsal, behind a Syrian factory that specializes in sewing and fashion design, named "Orchid Flower," stands Souad Kassem Shehada, a refugee from Homs countryside. The establishment was the culmination of a long period of hard work, made more difficult the...

The pencil minaret of the Ottoman Adliyeh mosque in Syria’s Aleppo lists to one side and is scored by an ugly gash running down its flank, the result of bombing in the war. The sorry state of Aleppo’s Old City, a labyrinthine World Heritage Site and a battlefield from 2012-16, is obvious...

 Algeria’s army chief of staff said on Wednesday the military will ensure the country does not descend into violence, state TV reported, as mass protests that prompted President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to quit on April 2 continue. Bouteflika’s exit has not quieted protesters, who are now...

A month after local elections which saw it lose control of Turkey's two largest cities, officials in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AK Party are questioning an alliance with nationalists which some blame for one of its biggest electoral setbacks. Under a deal between Erdogan's...

The Pentagon Wednesday appeared to downplay any active planning to directly intervene in Venezuela to topple President Nicolas Maduro, telling Congress it had not been given orders to prepare for war and stressing support for diplomacy. Asked whether the U.S. military had been given...