U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday stressed the need for diplomacy in getting U.S. nuclear talks with North Korea back on track after a failed summit between the U.S. and North Korean leaders in February. In Oval Office remarks, Trump was asked by...

 Iraq's elite counter-terrorism force targeted Daesh (ISIS) holdouts Thursday in the northern region of Hamreen, including a media center, more than a year after the country declared Daesh vanquished. Although they no longer hold territory, Daesh sleeper cells were believed to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Child Guard’s Network, local civil organization, launched a travelling library project, a first in its kind initiative in the liberated areas, in the town of Azaz in northern Aleppo province, seeking to establish a culture of reading and reading lovers as well as to expand...

Strongmen in the Middle East and North Africa will be eyeing warily popular protests, fed by frustration with living standards and an elite perceived as corrupt, that helped push veteran Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and now Sudan?s Omar al-Bashir from power. While recent events...

Germany on Thursday backed a UN call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Libya in order to prevent an escalation in the country towards a full-scale civil war.  “UN special envoy Salame has called for a humanitarian ceasefire, and we fully support this,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas...

The Bashar al-Assad regime forces on Thursday struck civilian settlements in Idlib de-escalation zone of Syria, killing two people and wounding seven others. The White Helmets civil defense agency told Anadolu Agency that the regime forces and Iranian-backed terror groups targeted Lahaya...

Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Thursday announced that 11 armed attackers were killed in the country's northeastern Sinai region. In a written statement, the ministry said clashes had erupted between security forces and an armed group in the Al-Arish city of North Sinai. Egyptian...

The Israeli army rounded up 19 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to a military statement released Thursday. In a statement, the army said that the individuals had been detained for “suspected involvement in popular hostile activities”....

 Syria's Kurds on Thursday announced a deal with Baghdad for 31,000 displaced Iraqis, mostly women and children, in camps in northeastern Syria to return home to Iraq. Tens of thousands of people live in the camps, which swelled enormously during the months-long battle that culminated...

They trekked through the Sahara in hope of crossing the Mediterranean to a better life in Europe - but instead ended up in squalid detention centers and are now engulfed by war. Thousands of African and Syrian migrants and refugees are trapped in Tripoli as a battle for the city draws...

Even when U.S. coalition air strikes and artillery paused for people to evacuate during lulls in fighting, the killing did not stop in Islamic State’s final enclave. Snipers in areas controlled by Syria’s government near the village of Baghouz picked off women and children fetching water...

President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan with an iron fist for 30 years, was on Thursday overthrown in a coup by the armed forces which announced a two-year period of military rule to be followed by elections. In an address on state television, Defense Minister Awad Mohammad Ahmad Ibn Auf...

In the US oil heartland on Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the signing of two executive orders to accelerate the construction of oil and gas pipelines, dismaying environmentalists. The latest measures are in line with others his administration has taken to ease regulation of the...

French President Emmanuel Macron has signed into law legislation giving security forces greater powers at demonstrations that opponents claim violates civil liberties, the official journal said Thursday. The bill, which was approved by lawmakers in February, aims to crack down on violence...

In a White House where no secret is safe for long, one development has remained stubbornly confidential – the contents of a Middle East peace plan authored by President Donald Trump's advisers Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt. With Trump having delighted Israelis and angered Palestinians...

A Tajik man who joined Islamic State said many foreigners who enlisted in its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria were jailed or killed for trying to leave. The 28-year-old, who once drove a taxi in Moscow, said he handed himself over to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a...

Fighting between eastern Libyan forces and Tripoli government troops killed 56 people and forced 6,000 to flee their homes in the capital in the last week, the United Nations said on Thursday, as France and Italy wrangled over how to respond to the renewed conflict. After sweeping up from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists were mourning the loss of Marie Christine Dubois, a Belgian advocate of the Syrian revolution. She has not been stopped by language, geography or religion to support the Syrians in their just revolution over the past eight years. Marie made great efforts to...

Tens of thousands of Sudanese were making their way to the center of the country's capital on Thursday, cheering and clapping in celebration as two senior officials said the military had forced longtime autocratic President Omar al-Bashir to step down after 30 years in power. The...

President Donald Trump called the probe into his campaign's Russia links an attempted "coup" Wednesday, while his attorney general promised to investigate FBI "spying" on the president. More than two weeks after the Mueller probe wrapped up, apparently putting him in the clear, Trump is far...