A bipartisan group of lawmakers from both chambers of Congress reintroduced legislation Wednesday that could halt U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The war powers resolution already passed the Senate in December but failed to gain traction in the then-Republican-controlled House,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian pound (Lira) weakened against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday despite regime promises to revive the economy following the sign of  'strategic economy deals with Iran. The dollar was up 0.30 percent at 530 S.P in two weeks. Bashar al-Assad on...

A U.S. intelligence report has claimed challenges facing South Asia will grow in 2019 because of elections in India and Afghanistan and Pakistan’s “non-cooperation” in dealing with militant groups. World Threat Assessment report by the U.S. Directorate of National Intelligence noted...

An Israeli minister on Wednesday threatened to ban human rights group Amnesty International from the country for its criticism of some tourism companies. Gilad Erdan, the minister of public security, accused the rights group of promoting a boycott against Israelis. “I have instructed...

The governor of the Irish central bank, Philip Lane, is the only candidate to take over the highly influential role of chief economist of the ECB, a Eurogroup statement said Wednesday. Barring a major upset, Lane, who holds a PhD in economics, will take over from Belgian Peter Praet on May...

The French government is under growing pressure to follow other European countries in banning controversial rubber-ball launchers used by riot police amid a spate of serious injuries suffered by Yellow Vest protesters. France’s legal advisory body, the Council of State, was due to examine...

The U.S. issued a stern ultimatum to the international business community Wednesday, warning against commodity-based trade with the Venezuelan government, just two days after Washington blacklisted Venezuela's state-owned oil company. "My advice to bankers, brokers, traders, facilitators,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Schools of Ma'arret al-Nu'man town in northenr Idlib province has suspended education proccess for one day due to regime and Russian aerial campaign that left 11 civilians dead on Tuesday. Syrian regime forces have stepped up its aerial and ground bombardment on...

Russia is ready to participate in international efforts regarding the settlement of the Venezuelan crisis, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday. However, all initiatives for mediation must be impartial, Sergey Lavrov told a news conference following a meeting with his Iraqi...

Macedonian prime minister on Wednesday said his country did not have any alternative other than full membership of the European Union. In a joint press meeting with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, Zoran Zaev said that the name issue between his country and Greece has been settled....

One of the pioneer figures of France's Yellow Vest protests on Wednesday announced that he would leave France if the government didn't adopt new economic measures to ease problems of French people. In a statement issued on social media, Maxime Nicolle argued that the measures the French...

Security agents briefly detained a senior leader of Sudan's main opposition party Wednesday, her family said, as authorities pressed on with a crackdown on anti-government protests that have rocked the country. Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, deputy chief of the Umma party, had been taken away...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian General Conscription Department has sent new conscription calls for men in the eastern suburbs of Damasucs to perform the reserve service, activists said Wednesday. Most of the Syrian young men in the capital's Eastern Ghouta have rejected the regime’s...

Apple Inc plans to cut the price of some of its flagship iPhones for only the second time in the device’s 12-year history, pegging its retail value to past prices in local currencies outside the United States instead of the rising U.S. dollar. The move is an attempt to stem weak sales...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- On 29 January 2013, bodies of 110 men, killed by the Syrian regime, were washed up in the Queiq river running through Aleppo city, such a horrible scene still in memory in the sixth anniversary. Obaida Baaj, a media activist, told Zaman al-Wasl that he was at his office...

E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s quarterly revenue grew at its weakest pace since 2016, as the impact of a slowing Chinese economy and a crippling Sino-U.S. trade war kept buyers away during its top-sale season. The result is likely to add to investor worries as it...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has alleged that the U.S. and Colombian presidents have hatched a plot to murder him. In a no-holds-barred interview to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Maduro said: "Without a doubt, Donald Trump has given the order to kill me and has told the Colombian...

With competing claims of authority rocking the country, Greece does not want Venezuela to become a weak, divided state, said a top Greek diplomat on Wednesday. "We do not want Venezuela to become yet another Libya in South America," Giorgos Katrougalos, the alternate minister of foreign...

Recent clashes between two military forces aligned with Syria’s Assad regime have led to the death of at least 70 Syrian troops and numerous injuries, local sources said Wednesday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Russia-backed Tiger Forces and the Iran-backed...

Spain's Foreign Minister Josep Borrell Fontelles said Spain and the EU are "against every kind of military intervention on Venezuela." Borrell said "Spain does not want a change of regime" in Venezuela, but Venezuelans can freely express "who they want to govern them." Borrell's remarks...