European Union leaders failed to do enough Friday to pursue a pledge to achieve zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 under the Paris climate agreement, French President Emmanuel Macron said. The leaders stressed the need for the EU to submit an "ambitious long-term strategy by 2020...

Two Palestinians were killed and dozens of others injured, including an Anadolu Agency photojournalist, during a Friday rally along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. In a statement, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra confirmed that two Palestinians -- aged 18...

Druze Arabs and Israeli settlers on opposite sides of the dispute over U.S. President Donald Trump’s support for Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights agree on one thing - it won’t change matters on the ground. The fertile hillsides of the Israeli-occupied Golan are scattered with...

Hungarian authorities detained a Syrian man on Friday accused of taking part in beheadings in Syria as a member of Islamic State, Budapest prosecutors and the European judicial co-operation agency Eurojust said. The 27-year-old man, identified by Hungarian authorities as F. Hassan, is...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that U.S.-backed forces had dislodged the Islamic State militant group from its last holdout in Syria. “Here’s ISIS on Election Day. And here’s ISIS right now,” Trump said, using the acronym for the group, as he displayed a before-and-after map to...

French security forces will be allowed to open fire if lives are threatened during the Yellow Vest protests to be held this weekend in Paris, according to media reports. Gen. Bruno Leray, military governor of Paris, told Franceinfo radio on Friday the army will assist 5,000 police officials...

Neymar was charged by UEFA on Friday for making "insulting" comments about the match officials following Paris Saint-Germain's shock Champions League loss to Manchester United. The Brazil forward missed the 3-1 second-leg defeat in the last 16 earlier this month through injury, but told...

Ten civilians were killed when Russian military aircraft conducted a number of airstrikes in opposition-held Idlib on Friday, according to the White Helmets civil-defense agency, Anadolu reports. Russian warplanes took off from the Khmeimim Airbase in Syria’s Latakia province, striking...

France does not recognise the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights and its recognition – as called for by US President Donald Trump – is contrary to international law, its foreign ministry said on Friday. Trump provocatively tweeted on Thursday that Washington should recognise...

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday condemned Israel’s “apparent intentional use of unlawful lethal and other excessive force” against civilian protesters in Gaza, and called for perpetrators of violations in the enclave to face justice. Protests at the border between Israel...

Lebanon’s parliament speaker told visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday that U.S. sanctions on the Hezbollah group were having a “negative impact on Lebanon and the Lebanese”. U.S. efforts to put pressure on the heavily armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah are high on the agenda...

Budget needs are forcing Saudi Arabia to push for oil prices of at least $70 per barrel this year, industry sources say, even though U.S. shale oil producers could benefit and Riyadh’s share of global crude markets might be further eroded. Riyadh, OPEC’s de facto leader, said it was...

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that soldiers will be deployed across the country to help maintain security during Yellow Vest protests planned this weekend. But the move has been met with fierce criticism. The troops will be redeployed from the "Sentinelle" anti-terror...

US-led warplanes bombed the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria early Friday to flush out holdout jihadists from the last sliver of their crumbling "caliphate". Friday's bombardment ended two days of relative calm on the front line in the remote village of Baghouz near the...

Signs of a weak first quarter for the eurozone mounted on Friday as a closely-watched survey pointed to March output being dragged further down by manufacturing weakness, especially in Germany, Europe's largest economy. Data company IHS Markit said in a first estimate for the month that...

The capsizing of a Tigris river ferry packed with Iraqi families celebrating Kurdish New Year in Mosul left at least 100 people dead, mostly women and children, the interior ministry said Friday, as grief and anger swept the Iraqi city. Residents of the northern city, scarred by years of...

Algerians staged fresh demonstrations in Algiers on Friday to demand the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.  Defying relatively cold weather and rain, protesters gathered in several parts of the capital singing patriotic anthems and shouting anti-Bouteflika slogans. The...

Germany on Friday opposed U.S. President Donald Trump’s move to recognize Israel's claim to sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights in Syria. Ulrike Demmer, the government’s deputy spokeswoman, told a news conference in Berlin that Germany’s stance on the status of Golan Heights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian refugee Radhwa Hassoun, 43, was able to open her treatment center for  Traditional Chinese medicine  in the Lebanese border town of Arsal. Hassoun says the center is the first of its kind in the Bekaa Valley and the second in Lebanon. “I...

U.S.-led warplanes bombed the north bank of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria on Friday to flush out holdout militants from the last sliver of their crumbling "caliphate." Friday's bombardment ended two days of relative calm on the front line in the remote village of Baghouz near the...