Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Russia Monday the United States will not "stand idly by" as Moscow inserts military personnel into Venezuela to support the regime of President Nicolas Maduro. In a phone call with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Pompeo denounced the growing Russian...

Clashes in Yemen's Hodeida have left five fighters dead, medical and military sources said Monday, despite a ceasefire agreement between warring parties in the port city. Fighting between Yemen's armed rebels, known as the Huthis, and pro-government forces erupted late Sunday in the eastern...

Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov called "ungrounded" allegations about Kremlin's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Commenting on the findings of the U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation on the matter on Monday, Peskov said "the...

U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week that it was time for the U.S. to "fully recognize Israel’s sovereignty" over the Golan Heights. Although the announcement sparked huge condemnation and criticism from across the globe, including the UN Human Rights Council, EU, Turkey and many...

Israeli warplanes carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes across the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday, according to military sources. Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said the air raids had targeted Hamas positions across the blockaded enclave. An Anadolu Agency correspondent in Gaza...

U.S.-backed forces in Syria Monday called for the establishment of an international court in the country to try suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants. The announcement came two days after the group’s "caliphate" was declared defeated. "We call on the international community to establish a...

Prime Minister Theresa May battled on Monday to keep control of Britain’s exit from the European Union as some in her party called on her to quit and parliament plotted to wrest Brexit away from the government. At one of the most important junctures for the country in at least a generation,...

The EU's powerful competition authority Monday imposed a 12.5 million euro ($14 million) fine on US sports apparel giant Nike for restricting cross-border sales in Europe of jerseys and scarves of top football teams. According to the European Commission, Nike imposed illegal licensing deals...

More than 9,000 foreigners, mostly children, linked to the Islamic State group are present in a camp for the displaced in northeast Syria, a Kurdish spokesman said Monday. The total number of foreigners in Al-Hol camp includes more than 6,500 children, Luqman Ahmi, official spokesman for...

Hisham al-Zarzur, a Syrian survivor of the New Zealand's Christchurch mosque attacks that left 50 people dead in 15 March, has provided Zaman al-Wasl with more details over the terrorist attack. Al-Zarzur was able to recall with courage all the facts of the Massacre of Al-Nour Mosque,...

 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington Sunday, looking for an electoral boost from Donald Trump amid expectations the U.S. president will  formally recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Trump broke longstanding international consensus...

Apple looks to begin a fresh reinvention Monday as it rolls out Hollywood stars for its new streaming television service, part of a broad shift of direction for the California technology giant. Having seen a pullback in the once-sizzling smartphone market, Apple will seek to diversify by...

Four years after Saudi Arabia led a military intervention in Yemen to back the government against rebels, the only hope for peace in a country threatened by famine hangs on a fragile truce. Despite the Saudis entering the conflict on March 26, 2015, with a coalition composed of nine countries...

The elimination of Daesh’s (ISIS) physical “caliphate” closes a long chapter in the Syrian conflict, but the country’s 8-year-old war is far from over. What fronts or tensions look likely to flare up next? IS Daesh finally gone? U.S.-backed forces pronounced the death of the Daesh...

Daesh (ISIS) has lost all the territory it once controlled in Iraq and Syria, but its shadowy leader and self-proclaimed “caliph” is still at large. With a $25 million U.S. bounty on his head, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the world’s most wanted man, responsible for steering his chillingly violent...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey will take the issue of the Golan Heights to the United Nations. In an interview with broadcaster TGRT Haber, Erdogan said U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement on Golan Heights was a “gift” to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

A long-range rocket launched from the Gaza Strip struck a house in central Israel on Monday, wounding six people in the first such incident since a 2014 war in the Palestinian enclave, Israeli authorities said. The early morning attack on Mishmeret, an agricultural town north of Tel Aviv,...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday ordered an independent judicial inquiry into whether police and intelligence services could have prevented the Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15. Ardern said a royal commission -- the most powerful judicial probe available under...

Barefoot in a blue striped shirt, Ahmed al-Hamadi walks from school to a cemetery in the Yemeni capital where he works to help his family survive. The 13-year-old makes his way through the cemetery, where graves are cramped together and overgrown with weeds. Hauling gallons of water on...

Novak Djokovic remains on course for a record seventh Miami Open title, but the world number one was made to fight all the way to the last 16 in a 7-5, 4-6, 6-1 victory over spirited Federico Delbonis. Djokovic is hoping to eclipse Andre Agassi?s six ATP crowns in South Florida over the...