(Zaman Al Wasl)- “The country that violates its girls’ honour is not a homeland." This was the last thing said in an interview with Amal, 22, a girl who lost her virginity in Assad's prisons. Amal, who is from the town of Rastan in central Homs province, was a student at the Faculty of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Assad regime is striving to trim and confiscate lands of people revolted and demanded his departure. After forcibly displacing them, he moved to the stage of their expropriation of their property through seizing them or through controversial Law 10. Bashar al-Assad...

Monday saw a prisoner swap between the Assad regime and Syria’s armed opposition as part of the Astana process, according to Turkey’s Foreign Ministry. “Several persons detained by the opposition groups and the regime were mutually and simultaneously released on April 22, 2019 with the...

The United States on Monday offered a reward of up to $10 million for information that could help disrupt financing of Hezbollah, the armed Shi’ite group backed by Iran. The announcement by the U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program comes amid growing concerns by Washington...

Tehran is prepared for a U.S. decision to end waivers granted to buyers of Iranian crude, an Iranian oil ministry source said on Monday, as the Revolutionary Guards repeated their threat to close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reported. The United States will fail to cut...

A hospitalized Palestinian teen said Monday he was shot in his thighs by Israeli soldiers while he was handcuffed and blindfolded - the latest in what a leading rights group portrayed as a series of unjustified shootings of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers. The military said it was...

Sri Lanka's decision to block social media following deadly suicide attacks highlights a growing distrust of online platforms, but critics said the move is likely to restrict the flow of important news and information as well as abusive content. The move comes amid growing frustration by...

More help is urgently needed to encourage Christians to stay in Syria. That is the urgent message from an archbishop who has said that security problems, job instability and poor living conditions have left people “feeling like strangers in their own country.” Speaking with us during Holy...

Saudi authorities arrested 13 "terrorist" suspects Monday a day after an attack claimed by Daesh (ISIS) on a security services base north of the capital, state media said. Saudi Press Agency, quoting a state security spokesman, said the arrests were part of an investigation by authorities...

Turkey has arrested nine people, including a member of the ruling AK Party, after the country’s main opposition leader was punched and his car was stoned at a soldier’s funeral at the weekend, the interior minister said on Monday. Kilicdaroglu was attacked on Sunday as he attended a funeral...

Opponents of constitutional amendments that could see Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stay in power until 2030 urged people to vote “no” on Monday, the third and final day of a referendum on the proposal. The amendments would also bolster the role of the military and expand the...

The Paris prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into allegations that Yellow Vest protesters assailed police over the weekend with taunts urging officers to kill themselves. Yellow Vests took to the streets of Paris for a 23rd consecutive Saturday this weekend, facing off...

More than $60 million dollars in public funds were embezzled by Mosul officials close to the province's sacked governor in the wake of last month's ferry sinking, Iraqi officials said Monday. Iraq's anti-corruption Integrity Commission said officials from the Nineveh province, of which...

A civilian was killed while three others were injured on Monday when Syrian regime forces shelled opposition-held positions in northern Syria’s de-escalation zones, according to local sources. The sources, speaking anonymously for security reasons, told Anadolu Agency that the shelling had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S. is trying to avoid tension with Russia over Bashar al-Assad but it has adopted two ways to tighten noose on the Syrian dictator and his regime. The first way of dealing with the regime is to prevent the regime from getting U.S. Dollar through private and...

The US military is allegedly allowing members of the ISIS, which have suffered serious defeats in Syria and neighboring Iraq, to infiltrate Afghanistan even as US is engaged with peace talks with Taliban for sake of stability in the landlocked country.  There are allegations that...

An international rights group says the widespread use of land mines by Yemen's Houthi rebels not only kill civilians but block aid to the most needy, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. Human Rights Watch says in a new report Monday that at least 140 people, including children, have been...

Five Algerian billionaires have been arrested as part of an anti-graft investigation, Algerian state TV said Monday. The five are Issad Rebrab, considered the richest businessman in the energy-rich north African nation, and four brothers from the Kouninef family said to be close to...

Iran and Pakistan will form a joint quick reaction force to combat militant activity on their shared border, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday during a televised press conference with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan. Khan arrived in Iran on Sunday to discuss security and...

Thousands of people gathered at Jerusalem's Western Wall on Monday for a traditional Jewish blessing for the Passover holiday. The "priestly blessing" takes place twice a year at one of Judaism's holiest sites during the week-long holidays of Passover and Sukkot, which occurs in the autumn....