Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Wednesday held talks with Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar, with whom he discussed recent developments in the troubled North African country, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). The king received Haftar at Riyadh’s Al-Yamamah Royal Palace,...

Manchester United will play Premier League top-four rivals Tottenham in a pre-season glamour friendly in Shanghai, the Old Trafford club said on Wednesday. At least six major English clubs will visit China this summer, with Manchester City, Newcastle, West Ham and Wolves taking part in the...

India has shot down a satellite in space with an anti-satellite missile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday, hailing the test as a major breakthrough in its space program. Modi made the announcement in a television address to the nation. He said India would only be the fourth...

Algerians waited on Wednesday for a decision by the constitutional council on whether ailing President Bouteflika is fit for office, after the top army officer called for his removal in a bid to defuse mass protests. Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah, addressing officers in a speech...

Venezuelans reacted with despair and resourcefulness on Tuesday as nationwide power cuts closed schools and businesses, paralyzing a nation that was only starting to recover from its worst blackouts earlier this month. The new outages, which began Monday, forced people to follow...

The United States has no jurisdiction or right to "give" the Golan Heights to Israel, Turkey’s president said late Tuesday. Speaking at an election rally in Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said voters in Israel will go to the polls on April 9. Erdogan said U.S. President Donald Trump...

 It took a while, but finally and with the carefully curated help of Oprah, Big Bird and Goldman Sachs Apple has at last unveiled a new streaming TV service, its own branded credit card and a news subscription product. The moves have been largely expected and so far don’t appear to...

German carmaker Volkswagen and Amazon.com Inc have agreed on a strategic partnership to create a kind of “industry cloud”, for which details will soon be announced, Germany’s Sueddeutsche newspaper reported on Wednesday. It cited unnamed sources at Volkswagen as saying Amazon would play a...

An air strike killed seven people at a charity-supported hospital on Tuesday as Yemenis rallied to show support for the Houthi movement on the fourth anniversary of a war that has killed thousands and pushed the country to the brink of starvation. The Iran-aligned Houthis have controlled...

With the web of US sanctions tightening, Iran faces a host of challenges as it looks to an isolated port in the country's far southeast to maintain the flow of goods. The port in Chabahar, only about 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the Pakistan border and located on the Indian Ocean, is...

Syria is calling on the UN Security Council to hold an urgent meeting over the Golan Heights, according to some diplomatic sources. Syria’s call came after U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights. On Monday,...

On a long-disused film set outside Damascus featuring mud houses, palm trees, alleyways and camels, actors in flowing robes are making a television series that the producers say is part of a gradual revival of their industry. Like most other sectors of the economy in Syria, the film and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime on Tuesday has freed three detainees, two men and woman, after the former-al-Qaeda group agreed to unveil the army's mass graves in Idlib province, local activists said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) gave the regime the coordinates of mass graves for...

European Union lawmakers approved a copyright bill Tuesday to give writers and artists more protection of their creative rights and incomes, an intensely contentious measure that could have major trans-Atlantic implications for American technology companies. The European Parliament voted...

The Turkish Armed Forces and the Russian Armed Forces on Tuesday conducted the first independent but coordinated patrol in northern Syria, Turkish Defense Ministry said. “Within the framework of the previous agreement, the Turkish Armed Forces and the Russian Armed Forces carried out the...

The United States on Tuesday imposed fresh sanctions on a network of companies and people in Iran, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates it said was helping to raise billions of dollars to fund the operations of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards. The U.S. Treasury blacklisted 25 people and...

Demonstrations spread across Syria on Tuesday denouncing Washington's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in a show of unity in the war-torn country, state media said. US President Donald Trump on Monday signed a proclamation recognising Israeli sovereignty over the...

Cristiano Ronaldo's thigh injury picked up during Portugal's 1-1 Euro 2020 qualifier draw with Serbia has sparked alarm in Italy ahead of Juventus's Champions League quarter-final tie against Ajax in two weeks' time. The 34-year-old Juve attacker hobbled off 30 minutes into Monday's...

Four and a half years ago, French toddler Jana set off on a family holiday to Morocco -- but her jihadist father instead spirited her to Syria, where he joined the Islamic State group. Now devoted uncle Mustafa Tarbouni is on the ground and desperately trying to secure the seven-year-old's...

Hundreds of Palestinians on Tuesday demonstrated in the occupied West Bank to show solidarity with Palestinians languishing in Israeli prisons. Separate demonstrations were held simultaneously in the West Bank cities of Al-Bireh, Tulkarm, Jenin and Salfit. Some protesters held photos of...