(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Danish Immigration Service has informed many Syrian refugees that their residency would not be renewed and better for them to accept the voluntary return to Syria, especially for people of Damascus. The decision comes after many decisions taken by the Danish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish PYD militia has launched new conscription campaign in northeastern Hasaka province, tracking hundreds of youth from Arabs and Kurds, local activist said Friday. The campaign comes as Russia encourages the young men in the Kurdish-dominated area to join the...

They climbed along a jagged pathway on the edge of Mount Baghouz, a monolithic cliff overlooking the last patch of land held by the Islamic State, carrying with them whatever they could hold. Men, women and children arrived by the thousands in recent weeks, surrendering to the Syrian...

A giant forest fire swept across swathes of South Korea Friday, as authorities declared a rare national disaster, deploying 900 fire engines and tens of thousands of personnel to bring it under control. Apocalyptic images on television and social media showed walls of flame lighting up...

Facebook will block election advertising from outside Australia ahead of polls next month, in the wake of growing criticism of the social media giant's role in the spread of disinformation. The restrictions -- already rolled out for polls in other countries such as Thailand and...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, finalized the biggest divorce settlement in history on Thursday, leaving him with 75 percent of their stock in the tech giant and giving her nearly $36 billion in shares. MacKenzie Bezos said she would give all of her stake in The...

One of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's signature policies has been protecting cows, but for Raghuvir Singh Meena -- a Hindu farmer struggling to protect his crop of chickpeas from roaming cattle -- it has gone too far. Farmers overwhelmingly supported Modi's nationalist party when...

Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn will remain in custody until at least April 14, a Japanese court ruled on Friday, as prosecutors quiz him over fresh allegations of financial misconduct. The Tokyo District Court said in a statement it had accepted a request from prosecutors to detain the...

A court in Germany has found a 29-year-old Syrian man guilty of war crimes for torturing members of pro-government forces in Syria. German news agency dpa reported Thursday that the Stuttgart regional court sentenced Mohamad K. to four years and six months in prison. K., whose...

Dozens of displaced families on Thursday left the Rukban camp in southeastern Syria and reached a crossing point in the Syrian Desert, state-run news agency SANA reported. The displaced Syrian families reached the Jlaighem crossing in the eastern countryside of Homs Province in central...

"Anything you can do I can do while bleeding," read one defiant poster at a recent women's march in Pakistan, while another demanded: "Keep your dick pics to yourself". Then came the backlash, including rape and death threats. The posters were just part of the colourful spectacle as...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that documented chemical attacks in Syria have amounted to nearly 221 attacks since 23 December 2012, the date of the first recorded use of chemical weapons in the country, until 4 April. This came in a report released on Thursday on the...

The Jordanian Foreign Ministry on Thursday summoned Ayman Alloush, Syria’s charge d'affaires in Amman, to demand the release of Jordanian nationals who it says have been unjustly detained by the Syrian authorities. “The Foreign Ministry is calling on the Syrian regime to immediately release...

In a joint operation with Russian forces, Israel recovered the remains of Sgt. First Class Zachary Baumel, a Brooklyn-born Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier missing in action in Lebanon for almost 37 years. Baumel was declared missing in action in June 1982 during the first week of the...

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution Thursday to end U.S. support for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in the war in Yemen, rebuffing President Donald Trump's policy toward the kingdom. As the resolution had already passed the Senate, where Trump's fellow Republicans have a...

Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar ordered his troops on Thursday to march on the capital Tripoli, taking his conflict with the internationally recognized government to a dangerous new level. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is in Tripoli trying to push an international...

France's Constitutional Council on Thursday struck down a measure that would have let authorities ban certain individuals from protesting, a key element of the government's plan to crack down on violence at "yellow vest" demonstrations. The council, which rules on the validity of laws, said...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned France to drop plans for a tax on digital giants such as Facebook and Apple, saying it would hurt American business. The top US diplomat raised his objections as he met French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in Washington during 70th...

Germany's industrial firms flourished in a world that couldn't get enough of their cars and machine tools, but a global trade slowdown combined with sluggish product upgrades and delays in modernising Europe's top economy are now taking their toll. Thursday saw federal statistics authority...

Saudi Arabia opened a consulate in the Iraqi capital on Thursday in a ceremony attended by Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali al-Hakim. “The foreign minister attended the opening ceremony for the kingdom’s new consulate in Baghdad,” the ministry said in a statement. Iraq-Saudi relations...