The wife of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has undergone a "successful" operation as part of treatment for early-stage breast cancer, the presidency said on Sunday. "Asma al-Assad continues her treatment against the malignant tumour," it said on its Facebook page. "Breast...

Abu Dhabi's state oil firm said Sunday it had signed partnership deals worth $5.8 billion with Italian oil giant Eni and Austria's OMV, awarding them key stakes in its refining arm. Under the agreements, Eni will own 20 percent and OMV 15 percent of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co's ADNOC...

Berlin and Moscow announced on Sunday that Germany had provided 12 million euros to help Russian World War II veterans and siege survivors but Moscow said it was not enough. The announcement came as Russia marked the 75th anniversary of the end of a World War II siege of Leningrad that...

The number of Jews murdered in anti-Semitic attacks around the world in 2018 reached its "highest" level in decades after a mass shooting at a US synagogue, an Israeli government report said Sunday. A total of 13 Jews were killed in three separate attacks over the year, according to the...

Israel's prime minister warned the head of Lebanon's Hezbollah of his army's "lethal" power on Sunday, in reaction to Hassan Nasrallah cautioning the Jewish state against further strikes in Syria. "The lethal striking force of the IDF (Israeli army) stands facing Hezbollah," Israel's...

Driving towards the frontline of what remains of the Islamic State group's self-declared "caliphate" in eastern Syria, US-backed fighters pass huge craters from air strikes and buildings reduced to rubble. Backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

Eight civilians were killed and 30 others wounded in a "shocking" bomb attack against a centre for displaced people in Yemen, the UN said Sunday. The bombing hit the centre in the Haradh district in the northwestern province of Hajja on Saturday, according to the UN humanitarian coordinator...

South Africa is against any attempts at “undue or unconstitutional change” of government in Venezuela, the country’s envoy to the UN Security council said. “The Security Council should never be an instrument that validates unconstitutional changes of any Government,” Jerry Matjila said in a...

A number of militants were killed in an airstrike in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, according to the Egyptian military on Sunday. The airstrike targeted a “terrorist outpost” in the northern Sinai Peninsula, military spokesman Colonel Tamer Rifai said in a statement. He said a number...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- ‘One Day in Aleppo’, a documentary by a Syrian investigative journalist, tells the story of the resistance of Syrian people in the eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city before being fell to regime control after deadly offensive in 2017. Ali al-Ibrahim captured...

The new U.N. special envoy for Syria held talks Sunday with the head of the Arab League, whose members appear divided about whether to readmit the war-torn country. The League, which will hold its annual summit in Tunisia in March, suspended Syria's membership in November 2011 as the...

Iran says Arab separatists have killed two policemen who were on patrol in the country's oil-rich south. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted police official Ali Ghasempour on Sunday as saying the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, a "terrorist and separatist...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pledged a Houthi withdrawal from the coastal province of Al-Hudaydah, Yemeni Foreign Minister Khaled Al-Yamani said Sunday. "During a meeting on Saturday, the UN Secretary-General promised not to let the Yemeni people down," al-Yamani said on...

More than 50 mass graves have been identified in western Democratic Republic of Congo after a spate of killings in the region, a UN rights group has said. "There are more than 50 mass graves, as well as common and individual graves that we have identified" in Yumbi in western Mai-Ndombe...

With a month left in their truce, senior US and Chinese officials will meet in Washington this week, hoping to move toward a bargain to end their unprecedented trade war. Beijing's trade envoy, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, will lead a 30-person delegation at the invitation of US Treasury...

As Donald Trump seeks progress with North Korea at a second summit, the United States has a series of cards it can play including easing sanctions, signing a peace declaration or even pulling troops from South Korea. After the historic handshake between the US president and North Korean...

The US Federal Reserve will hold its fire this week, leaving interest rates untouched and letting markets calm down after a tumultuous end to 2018. Coming off Wall Street's worst December since the Great Depression and amid mounting fears about the global economy, Fed policymakers are now...

As the ECB takes the final step in phasing out the 500-euro note, few are expected to mourn a bill favoured by criminals but rarely seen in daily life. Except perhaps in cash-loving Germany. From Sunday, central banks in 17 of the 19 eurozone countries will stop issuing the...

Ever since the Brexit vote, Ireland has had the rest of the European Union behind it in insisting there can be no hard border with Northern Ireland when Britain leaves. But with a draft UK-EU deal that would guarantee an open border looking increasingly frail, and the growing risk that...

Cracks are opening in China's mighty economy: investors are backing away from deals, factories are moving abroad and companies are shedding jobs. The world's second-largest economy is losing steam, hitting its slowest growth in almost three decades last year, and flagging further in recent...