Turkey will not turn back from its deal to buy S-400 missile systems from Russia, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Saturday, a day after an informal deadline Washington set for Ankara to respond to a rival offer passed. NATO member Turkey has repeatedly said it is committed to...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday suggested the mosque in Athens should open with minarets if the Greek premier wants to reopen a seminary in Istanbul. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was in Turkey this month and visited the disputed landmarks of Hagia Sophia and the...

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said Friday that President Donald Trump would ask European countries to send troops to establish a buffer zone in northeast Syria along Turkey’s southern border.  Graham's remarks came at the Munich Security Conference in Germany.  Emphasizing the...

Russia will respect international humanitarian law in Syria’s Idlib, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday. Addressing the annual Munich Security Conference, Lavrov said efforts are currently underway in Idlib, to implement the memorandum signed last year between Moscow and Ankara...

 Iran warned neighboring Pakistan on Saturday it would “pay a heavy price” for allegedly harboring militants who killed 27 of its elite Revolutionary Guards in a suicide bombing near the border earlier this week, state television reported. Revolutionary Guards chief Major General Mohammad...

China must be involved in international disarmament efforts, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday, amid rising concern about Beijing's missile arsenal and the suspension of a key US-Russia arms treaty. "Disarmament is something that concerns us all and where we would of course be...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Saturday that Washington's plan to swiftly pull its soldiers out of Syria risks allowing Russia and Iran to boost their role in the region. Islamic State group fighters have been boxed in to a scrap of land in the battle for their last remaining...

Seven militants were killed and 15 Egyptian military personnel were killed or wounded in a clash in North Sinai on Saturday, the Egyptian military said. The breakdown of military casualties was not immediately clear. However, two security sources told Reuters that the some of the injuries...

 U.S. Vice President Mike Pence pressed European countries on Saturday to withdraw from a nuclear deal between Iran and major powers, and urged them to be wary of using telecoms equipment supplied by Chinese provider Huawei. “The time has come for our European partners to stand with us...

The European Union must recognize Venezuelan congress leader Juan Guaido as the president of the South American country, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday, pressing not just individual European governments but the bloc as a whole. In a speech at the Munich Security Conference,...

 The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will capture Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria “in a very short time”, the battle commander said on Saturday. The victory will bring the jihadist group, whose self-proclaimed caliphate once stretched across swathes of Syria and...

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising Democratic star in the US Congress, spotlighted a report this week saying US tech behemoth Amazon paid no federal income tax for two years. The company also found itself in the headlines after suddenly pulling out of a planned New York City...

Demonstrators are to hit French city streets again Saturday, marking three months of "yellow vest" protests as a poll now suggests that most of the country wants them to stop. The number of those attending the weekly rallies has dropped since 287,000 turned out on November 17, the first...

"Large numbers" of civilians remain inside the last Islamic State group enclave in Syria prompting a fresh delay in a final advance, Kurdish-led forces said on Saturday. "There are still civilians inside in large numbers," US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman Adnan Afrin told AFP...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bombardment by militias loyal to Bashar al-Assad killed at least 9 civilians, mostly two children and women, in the northern town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, activists said Friday. The heavy artillery fire has targeted the town of Khan Sheikhoun for the second...

Zaman al-Wasl has received a new torture testimony against Colonel Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian Intelligence officer was arrested in Germany with one more ex-officer on Tuesday on charges of carrying out or aiding in crimes against humanity, including torture of anti-regime activists....

The great-grandson of Francisco Franco is leading opposition to Spain's bid to remove the dictator's remains from an opulent mausoleum where they have lain for more than four decades, calling it an attack on over half the country. The heirs of Franco, who ruled with an iron first from 1939...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl that the Syrian regime is preparing to issue one of the largest reservation lists on the movable and immovable funds of a very large number of ex-employees who left the country. Lists of 40,000 names are ready to be...

Nigeria's electoral commission delayed the presidential election until Feb. 23, making the announcement a mere five hours before polls were set to open Saturday. The commission cited unspecified "challenges" amid reports that voting materials had not been delivered to all parts of the...

- Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is likely to meet Afghan Taliban representatives during his visit to Pakistan starting on Sunday, Pakistani government sources said, part of efforts to broker an end to Afghanistan’s 17-year-old civil war. Pakistan has been playing an...