(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians, including a woman, were killed in regime artillery fire on a rebel-held area in the coastal Latakia province, activists said Thursday. Two more children were wounded due to the bombardment.  The artillery rounds have also...

Far-right and racist crime rose sharply last year in eastern Germany's ex-communist state of Saxony, new data showed on Thursday. Reported offences -- including mainly assaults but also threats and arson attacks -- increased by 38 percent to 317, with a total of 481 victims, said victim's...

North Korea on Thursday attacked ongoing joint military exercises between Seoul and Washington as an "all out challenge" to moves towards peace on the Korean peninsula. The US and South Korea agreed on Sunday to replace two major war games that take place every spring -- the Key Resolve and...

Israel’s election board has approved far-right Jewish candidates accused by rivals of racism for next month’s election while disqualifying an Arab party that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said supported terrorism. The Central Elections Committee’s decisions, taken late on Wednesday,...

Witnesses said that activists chose a women’s day theme for Thursday’s protests and many of the hundreds who turned out in Omdurman, across the Nile river from the center of the capital, and in eastern Khartoum, were female. They chanted “Peace, freedom and justice”, and “Revolution is the...

The 28 member states of the European Union all backed a decision on Thursday to reject a proposal from the EU executive to add Saudi Arabia to a blacklist of countries suspected of being lax on terrorist financing and money laundering. The decision comes after pressure from Riyadh and other...

 Lawyers representing Syrian refugees in Jordan have asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Syria for alleged crimes against humanity in what they hope will be a breakthrough after previous initiatives have failed. The case is being brought on behalf of 28...

Thousands of people could still be left inside Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said, as the waves of evacuations from the tiny area continued on Thursday. The SDF has said it wants to ensure all civilians have been evacuated...

Egyptian security forces killed seven suspected militants in two operations in Giza, across the Nile from central Cairo, the interior ministry said on Thursday. Three of the militants had disguised themselves as electricity workers to plant explosives, but were killed in an exchange of fire...

A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli fire during renewed protests along the Gaza border overnight Thursday, the enclave's health ministry said, with Israel striking a Hamas position in response to the violence. Health ministry spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said Saif al-Deen Abu Zeid,...

During a lull in regime bombardment, Abu Abdu al-Sarmani drove a pick-up hurtling into his wrecked hometown in Syria's Idlib province to grab his family's belongings a day after they fled. The northwestern town of Khan Sheikhun is supposed to be protected by an internationally brokered...

At least 36 countries, including all 28 EU members, have signed a statement criticizing Saudi Arabia’s human rights record at the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday, diplomats said. The statement is the first rebuke of the kingdom since the U.N. forum was set up in 2006....

North Korea has released a film on leader Kim Jong Un’s second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump last week in which talks broke down over how to dismantle Pyongyang’s nuclear program, but saw the two leaders engage in an amicable farewell. The 78-minute documentary, which followed...

Amazon.com Inc will close all of its U.S. pop-up stores and focus instead on opening more book stores, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. The company’s shares closed down 1.4 percent, while shares of bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc ended 8.9 percent lower. Amazon’s 87 pop-up...

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido urged Europe to tighten financial sanctions against the government of Nicolas Maduro after it expelled Germany's ambassador, a magazine quoted him as saying Thursday. It was the latest flashpoint in a global showdown over Venezuela, with Western...

An official with a mainly Shiite militia organization in Iraq says Daesh (ISIS) militants attacked a bus carrying the group's forces in northern Iraq, killing six militiamen and wounding 31 fighters. The official from the government-sanctioned Al-Hashd al-Shaabi told The Associated Press...

A Palestinian child succumbed to injuries sustained Wednesday while taking part in anti-occupation rallies east of Gaza. “Seyfeddin Abu Zeid, 15, has died of injuries suffered Wednesday at the hands of Israeli occupation forces,” Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement. More than 250...

Turkey is committed to defending Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, said Russia’s foreign minister on Wednesday  Restoring Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity in "full scale" is the ultimate goal of the Astana format for Syrian peace with Turkey and Iran, Sergey...

The Saudi- and United Arab Emirates-led coalition has killed more than 200 people, including women and children, using U.S. and British-made weapons in Yemen, said a report Wednesday. The report, "Day of Judgment: The Role of the US and Europe in Civilian Death, Destruction, and Trauma in...

Bank Hapoalim, one of Israel’s two largest lenders, said on Thursday it will set aside an additional $246 million to cover a potential settlement in a U.S. investigation of possible tax evasion by the bank’s clients. This provision, to be taken in the fourth quarter of 2018, will bring the...