The Syrian government on Saturday condemned Turkey's military presence in northern Syria as a violation of a 1998 protocol between the two countries. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted the Adana Protocol gives his country the right to intervene militarily in the...

Venezuela will continue to sell oil to the U.S. despite cutting off diplomatic ties with Washington, President Nicolas Maduro said Friday. Speaking to reporters at Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Maduro said cutting diplomatic relations would not affect oil trade with the U.S....

India on Saturday celebrated its 70th Republic Day with ceremonies held in the capital New Delhi and other parts of the country. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is on his first state visit to India, was the chief guest at the main Republic Day event held in the capital....

Millions of Syrians living in Turkey will be able to return to their homeland after Ankara liberates Syria's Manbij, Tal Rifaat and the region East of the Euphrates River from terrorists, Turkish president said on Saturday. “We are determined to save our region from disaster in cooperation...

Spain on Saturday said it will recognize Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the president of the country if the South American country does not hold “fair” elections within eight days. “Spain’s position is clear and shared by the vast majority of the EU members: we don’t want to...

Hundreds of Palestinians on Saturday paid farewell to three people martyred by Israeli army fire in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Mourners attended the funeral of Ahmed Hamed, 16, who was shot dead by Israeli forces in Ramallah on Friday for allegedly hurling stones at soldiers....

Turkey's national flag carrier Turkish Airlines resumed its flights to the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah after the lifting of the ban that was imposed in Sept. 2017. Ali Khalil Ibrahim, an Iraqi civil aviation authority chief, said in a statement on Saturday that Turkish Airlines operated its...

Thousands of impoverished Gazans received $100 payments from Qatar on Saturday, AFP journalists said, after the Gulf emirate brought in over $9 million in aid funds for the Palestinian enclave. Hundreds of people queued at post offices in the Gaza Strip to each collect a $100 bill....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian women activists formed an independent body called The Syrian Feminist Movement in Germany. The Syrian Women's Political Movement was founded in Paris in October 2017 and led to immediate election of a general secretariat of seven women.  The...

Coalition missile strikes have killed 42 people including 13 civilians in what remains of the the last holdout of Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria, an activist group said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, backed by a U.S.-led coalition, are battling to expel the last militants from hamlets in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Friday blocked the crossing of 400 tribal figures from northeastern Syria to regime-held Hama province to participate in a conference denouncing Turkish intervention in Syria, local sources said.   The tribal figures...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-Activists surfaced online a video shows a camp owner, in the northern Lebanese town of Miniyeh expelling a Syrian refugee family for not paying $87 (125,000 LP) the rent of the tent. The distressing video shows the fire of Khadija al-Hussein and her three children ourt...

US President Donald Trump has yielded to pressure to end the longest government shutdown in US history, dropping his previous insistence on immediate funding to build a wall along the Mexican border. Friday's announcement on the bipartisan deal marked a retreat by Trump, suspending a political...

Russia and the US resisted on Friday efforts by the UN Security Council to take a tougher stand on climate change -- a day after UN chief Antonio Guterres warned of a lack of political will to fight global warming. More than 80 people including about 15 ministers -- a record according to...

A deal between Serbia and Kosovo is possible this year but cannot include border changes, Kosovo's premier Ramush Haradinaj told AFP in an interview, warning that territory swaps could revive old demons in the war-scarred Balkans. The idea that Serbia and Kosovo -- a former southern...

Thousands of Australians attended "Invasion Day" rallies across the country on Saturday calling for a rethink of national day celebrations they say are disrespectful to indigenous people. The annual January 26 Australia Day holiday commemorates the arrival of the first British settlers in...

The Pentagon said Friday it has received no orders to move any aircraft or ships to Venezuela after mass demonstrations over the country’s economic crisis led to opposition leader Juan Guaido declaring himself interim president. "A lot of people are getting spun off thinking that we're...

The 1998 Adana agreement between Turkey and Syria can help to eliminate Turkey's concerns about its security on their shared border, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. Speaking at a news conference in Rabat after meeting with his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita,...

Belgium’s foreign minister on Friday called for “credible” elections in Venezuela. Didier Reynders told the press at UN headquarters in New York that his country supports Venezuela's National Assembly, saying that a peaceful political process should precipitate elections. Opposition...

France’s Court of Cassation on Friday dismissed 500 complaints against the country’s interior minister for hindering the right to protest. Public prosecutor Francois Molins announced his decision not to prosecute Christophe Castaner for his remarks that participants in the Yellow Vest...