Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced an agreement Wednesday with the International Committee of the Red Cross to bring humanitarian aid into a once-rich country now enduring acute shortages of food, medicine and such basics as soap and toilet paper. As the economy of the...

The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and Iran-backed terror groups have attacked Idlib’s de-escalation zone 6,422 times in March, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency. Violating the agreement between Turkey and Russia signed on Sept. 17, 2018, regime forces continue to attack...

Akram Kanaan looked toward an Israeli military position on a snow-capped mountain that overlooks the village of Chebaa in southern Lebanon, pointing toward the scenic area captured by Israel more than five decades ago. No matter how long it takes, he says, it will eventually return to Lebanon's...

 Ajax weren’t rattled by a goal from Cristiano Ronaldo at the stroke of halftime, equalizing immediately after the break to secure a 1-1 draw against Juventus in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals Wednesday. Showing increasing confidence after eliminating three-time...

Indians turned out in big numbers to vote in the first phase of a mammoth general election on Thursday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a second term after campaigning on his national security record amid tensions with rival Pakistan. Reuters reporters saw long queues outside many...

Leaders of the European Union agreed late Wednesday to grant an extension to the U.K. on Brexit up to the end of October with a review in June. European Council President Donald Tusk said on Twitter that the EU’s 27 member states and the UK reached the agreement at an emergency Brexit...

Sudan's Omar al-Bashir has stepped down as president, Sudanese military sources claimed in an apparent military takeover Thursday. Al-Bashir has been placed under house arrest as his bodyguards have been detained, military sources said.  Military sources said Sudanese military...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian designer Tamer Turkmani continues his 4-year-old project in documenting the victims of the Syrian revolution by their names and pictures. Turkmani has focused on the photos of the unidentified victims, because they are not mere figures and they did...

Iraq has offered to put on trial hundreds of accused foreign jihadists in Baghdad in exchange for millions of dollars, potentially solving a legal conundrum for Western governments but sparking rights concerns. Western countries have been rocked by fierce public debate over whether to...

With the blast finally walls gone, some 16 years after the U.S.-led invasion, life in the Iraqi capital Baghdad is starting to look like any normal bustling city. Families and friends hang out in cafes and shopping malls, people hold birthday parties in public and traders ply their wares...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined on Wednesday to publicly say the Trump administration still backs a two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. “We are now working with many parties to share what our vision (is) as to how to solve this problem,”...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah raised the prospect of retaliation by Iran and its allies over U.S. sanctions, saying on Wednesday that all options were on the table were Washington to take steps that “threaten our nation”. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the heavily armed Iranian-backed Shi’ite...

Algeria will hold a presidential election on July 4, the interim presidency said on Wednesday after weeks of mass protests led to the resignation of long-serving leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika. No further details were immediately given. On Tuesday, interim president Abdelkader Bensalah had...

More than 40 Saudi military cadets have been receiving training in British military colleges amid human rights abuse reports against the Gulf state’s forces in Yemen, local media reported on Wednesday. According to the information received through freedom of information channels by The...

The U.K.’s exit from the EU could be delayed for several months beyond the April 12 deadline, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday.  Addressing lawmakers at the Bundestag before heading to Brussels for an emergency summit of EU leaders on Brexit, Merkel insisted that a...

The solution to the Syria crisis should be a political and not a military one, head of the EU Delegation to Turkey said. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Christian Berger said the crisis needs a solution that also includes Syrians in finding a political settlement of the problem....

Turkish, Russian and Iranian lawmakers on Wednesday discussed the Syrian peace process during their first meeting in Moscow, head of Russian parliamentary delegation said. Leonid Slutsky, head of the State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, said the members of parliaments from three...

 Syrian refugee Ahmad al-Khatib and his 16-year-old son both work as tuk-tuk drivers in Cairo, but it is not enough to pay the bills. Tough economic reforms and rising costs have hit refugees and migrants in Egypt particularly hard, aid groups say. Help from a charity is the only...

The family of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has denied any financial settlement with Saudi authorities.  “Currently, the trial is taking place and no settlement discussion had been or is discussed,” the family said in a statement on Twitter on Wednesday. ...

Algeria's Interior Ministry has issued licenses for 10 new political parties, private Ennahar TV said Wednesday, after a newly-appointed interim president vowed to organize free elections in the face of growing calls for democracy. Protesters in Algeria, a major oil and natural gas...