Afghanistan saw a bloody start to the new year with over 1,700 war-related casualties in January alone. Figures compiled by Anadolu Agency suggest more than 900 people were killed and at least 800 others were injured across Afghanistan in terrorist attacks and security operations. The...

Some 3,750 troops will be deployed to the U.S. border with Mexico, the Department of Defense said on Sunday. The troops will be sent to place barbed wire at key points of entry along the border in response to large migrant caravans that had been marching their way up from Central America to...

The wreckage of a plane that went off radar nearly two weeks ago near the Channel Islands while carrying Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala has been found by a private search boat Sunday. The boat hired by Sala’s family spotted the plane, British media reports said. The shipwreck...

Saudi Arabia should not be allowed to resume normal relations with the rest of the world until the kingdom "puts on more than a show of change" after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, The Washington Post's Editorial Board said in an opinion piece. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused the United States of maintaining a "silence" on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who killed by a Saudi hit team in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate. "I cannot understand America's silence... We want everything to be...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said his government maintained "low-level" contact through its spy agency with the Syrian regime despite being one of its most fervent critics Ankara fell out with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad following the 2011 crackdown on...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke Sunday with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido, praising the "courage and leadership" of the national assembly head whom Ottawa recognizes as interim president, according to a statement. The phone call comes a day before a meeting of the...

Australian banks admitted to failing customers and vowed to "reset" their industry, as they braced for the release of a crunch report Monday into financial abuses in the sector. Mired in scandals, the wealthy lenders have sought to regain favour with the public and politicians as the...

 Wirecard said that a law firm it appointed has made no conclusive findings of criminal misconduct by any employee of the German payments firm and that there are indications the allegations stemmed from a quarrel between employees. Shares in the German member of the blue-chip DAX...

A former mayor campaigning on an anti-corruption ticket swept to victory in El Salvador's presidential election on Sunday, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued Central American country for three decades. Nayib Bukele, the 37-year-old former...

Asian markets rose Monday as investors were cheered by a blockbuster US jobs report last week, while trade was thin owing to the three-day Lunar New Year break. Expectations that the Federal Reserve will take its foot off the gas in raising interest rates and optimism that China and the...

Tom Brady wrote his name into the record books here Sunday, winning the Super Bowl for a sixth time as the New England Patriots defeated the Los Angeles Rams 13-3 in the lowest scoring NFL championship game in history. Brady, 41, became the first player ever to win six Super Bowls, 17 years...

Do you miss your headphone jack on your expensive iPhone? Quit crying because at least it isn't the Meizu Zero phone, which has no buttons, no ports, and no speaker holes whatsoever. Announced earlier this month, the Zero phone takes minimalism to the extreme, leapfrogging even Apple's...

Google has removed dozens of popular fake photo apps meant to hurt its users. Security firm Trend Micro discovered 29 malicious apps that were listed on the official Google Play store, all advertised as “beauty camera” applications. The apps have since been removed by Google. The photo...

Netflix is famously coy about releasing viewership stats. But in light of the Super Bowl, the streaming service subtly dropped on Twitter that numbers are down because everyone's watching the big game. Netflix has previously released statistics on big performers such as Bird Box, which...

It's a question that keeps popping up for Jack Dorsey. In an interview with Joe Rogan over the weekend, the Twitter CEO floated how editable tweets, an oft-requested feature, would work on the platform.  "You could build it as such so maybe we introduce a 5-second to...

Ryanair reported on Monday a 20 million euro ($22.88 million) loss in the third quarter on weaker fares, which it expects to continue throughout the year. Weak fares had led the company two weeks ago to cut its full-year profit forecast for the second time in three months. Ryanair...

A college student is facing 10 years in prison for stealing millions in cryptocurrency using a method called “SIM swapping.” According to Motherboard, 20-year-old Joel Ortiz of Boston accepted a plea deal for stealing more than $5 million in cryptocurrency from around 40 victims. Ortiz...

  Zaman al-Wasl on Monday has streamed a documentary recording the torture memos of Syria’s women prisoners. ‘WHINING is a story of a nightmare has been squeezing of minds and shocking the souls of Syrian people. Gruesome atrocities in security chambers nad prisons cells have no...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has reinforced the coastal Hmeimim base with advanced fighter jets and attack helicopters, in a move contradicts with Mosco’s withdrawal claims, military source told Zaman al-Wasl. large number of Russian warplanes and helicopters have stationed at Hmeimim since...