(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two car bomb blasts rocked the in the northern city of Manbij, targeting Kurdish-led militias, a war monitor group reported Tuesday. One of the bombs ripped through a military car near the Martyrs Cemetery in the city of Manbij, which is controlled by...

Venezuela’s chief prosecutor asked the country’s top court Tuesday to launch an investigation against opposition leader Juan Guaido following recent violent clashes. Speaking to reporters, Attorney General Tarek Saab said he requested the Supreme Court to introduce preventive measures...

More than ninety-nine and a half percent of territory captured by the Daesh terrorist group in Syria has been returned to the Syrian people, Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said Tuesday. "Within a couple weeks it will be a hundred percent," Shanahan told reporters at the...

France has denied allegations that it asked Israel to refrain from attacking Lebanon before a new cabinet is unveiled in Beirut, according to a Tuesday statement released by France’s embassy in Lebanon. Earlier, media outlets had quoted French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian as saying...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad Tuesday hailed an economic deal with key ally Iran as a bulwark against what he described as an "economic war" waged by the West. Assad spoke the day after the allies signed a string of agreements including a long-term "economic cooperation" deal ahead of...

North Korea is not likely to give up all of its nuclear weapons even if President Donald Trump's efforts to negotiate a deal with Pyongyang bear fruit, US Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said Tuesday. "We continue to assess that North Korea is unlikely to give up all of its...

French MPs on Tuesday began debating a controversial anti-rioting bill which aims to crack down on the sort of street violence that has marred "yellow vest" anti-government protests since November. The bill notably aims to ban individuals identified as habitual hooligans from taking part in...

Iran is still abiding by the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal despite the US pullout from the multinational agreement, Central Intelligence chief Gina Haspel said Tuesday. "At the moment technically they are in compliance" with they Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Haspel told the...

Millions of children living in countries affected by conflict and disaster lack access to vital child protection services, putting their safety, well-being and futures at risk, UNICEF warned today as it appealed for $3.9 billion to support its work for children in humanitarian crises...

The United States on Tuesday urged its citizens to avoid all travel to crisis-torn Venezuela, citing risks of crime and arrest and the US embassy's limited ability to assist. "Do not travel to Venezuela due to crime, civil unrest, poor health infrastructure and arbitrary arrest and...

Qatar beat hosts United Arab Emirates 4-0 to reach the final of the 2019 AFC Asian Cup. The win, coming in front of a hostile Abu Dhabi crowd, sealed Qatar's progress to the title match for the first time where it will face Japan on Friday. Qatar opened the scoring with Boualem Khoukhi...

Venezuela's attorney general asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to bar Juan Guaido, the self-proclaimed acting president and opposition leader, from leaving the country and to freeze his assets. The move comes after the United States earlier said it has handed control of Venezuela's US...

China on Tuesday condemned the U.S. after Washington blacklisted Venezuela's state-owned oil and natural gas company. China opposes unilateral sanctions, Geng Shuang, Foreign Ministry spokesman, told a regular news conference in the capital Beijing. On Monday, the U.S. announced...

A Palestinian has succumbed to injuries he sustained last Friday while taking part in ongoing anti-occupation rallies east of Gaza’s Al-Bureij refugee camp, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. “Samir Gazi al-Nabahin, 47, has died of injuries suffered last Friday at the hands of Israeli...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will ask the EU to reopen the withdrawal agreement, her spokesperson said on Tuesday. In a news briefing, the spokesperson said May has told EU leaders that she intends to re-open Brexit negotiations to get her deal through parliament. The announcement...

The German military opened investigation into 270 suspected right-wing extremists in its ranks, a new report revealed on Tuesday. 18 soldiers were dismissed from the armed forces due to their extremist views, according to the annual report released by Parliamentary Commissioner for the...

Pierre Krahenbuhl, commissioner-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), has unveiled a proposed $1.2-billion agency budget for 2019. According to a UNRWA statement issued Monday, the funding is needed to continue providing assistance to some 5.4 million...

Eight civilians were killed and 25 others injured Tuesday in the Syrian regime’s shelling of northwestern Idlib province. Artillery shells targeted Maarat Al-Numan and the towns of Al-Tah and Hosh Al-Qasabiya, which fall within the de-escalation zone in Idlib province, Mustafa Haj Yusuf,...

The Israeli government on Tuesday announced plans to build a cable-car route over Jerusalem’s Old City, according to Israeli daily Israel Hayoum.  If the plan is approved, the 1,400-meter cable-car route will be operational within two years at a total cost of 200 million Israeli...

Apple is aiming to show it can do more than just make iPhones in a quarterly update Tuesday for investors who are skeptical over whether the culture-changing company can regain the momentum from its glory days. In recent weeks, Apple shares have been hammered on concerns that its best days...