Long hailed as a beacon of success for the far-left after erupting in Spain five years ago, Podemos is now on the verge of a split that analysts say could hurt the ruling Socialists. Once inseparable, the two young political scientists who co-founded the party in 2014 -- Pablo Iglesias and...

Poles will gather on Saturday in the Baltic port city of Gdansk for the funeral of murdered liberal mayor Pawel Adamowicz, whose public stabbing has raised questions about hate speech in politics in the country. Around 3,500 people, including Polish President Andrzej Duda and EU Council...

The planned second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un needs to make tangible progress on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons if it is to avoid being dismissed as "reality TV", analysts say. Their summit in Singapore in June was undoubtedly historic, the...

Turkey has justifiable security interests in northeastern Syria, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Friday amid calls for a buffer zone the area. Guterres said any solution must take into account Syria's territorial integrity, the "legitimate security concerns" of Turkey, and...

The U.S. has legitimate reasons for deciding to withdraw its troops from Syria, a former brigadier general said Friday. Mark Kimmitt, who also served as a top defense official under former President George W. Bush, spoke at a panel discussion hosted by the Foundation for Political, Economic...

Hundreds of mourners returning from the funeral of a protester and crowds of worshippers launched spontaneous anti-government rallies in Sudan on Friday, witnesses said, a day after three demonstrators died in Khartoum. Deadly protests have rocked Sudan since December 19, when the...

The terrorist, who killed dozens of policemen in an attack in Colombia, is a member of an armed rebel left-wing organization in the country, officials said Friday. The latest information on Thursday's terror attack was shared at a press meeting at the Presidential Palace Casa de Narino,...

Syrians who have taken refuge in Turkey say they "feel human" in their host country and that they are hopeful about the future. Tens of thousands of refugees, whose humanitarian needs have been taken care of by the Turkish government and NGOs for years at modern facilities, pray for the end...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has canceled a congressional trip to Afghanistan to visit U.S. service members there after the Trump administration leaked plans of the visit to the war-ravished country, her office said Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump a day earlier barred Pelosi and a group...

The EU said Friday the meeting between the Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers sent "a positive signal for progress” in resolving the Upper Karabakh conflict. “[…] most recently in Paris on 16 January 2019, [FMs of both countries] send a positive signal for progress in the peaceful...

The German parliament's lower house approved on Friday a contentious law to limit asylum applications from Georgia and three Maghreb countries Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Some 509 German lawmakers, mostly from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative-left coalition government, voted in...

French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner proposed on Friday to allow police to use tear gas to ensure public order in the wake of Yellow Vest protests which have rocked the country since November. In a statement, he argued that more people will be injured when police does not use tear...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of Darayya’s residents are still waiting their home return, such a dream seems to be hard to come true as the Syrian regime prefers to keep the the original residents stranded throughout Syria. The western town of Damascus is still unsafe amid lack of public...

At least 30 Palestinian protesters were injured on Friday by Israeli army gunfire near the Gaza-Israel buffer zone, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. In a statement, the ministry said the protesters -- whose names were not given -- had been injured by live ammunition. According to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 civilians, including 14 children and 3 women, were killed Friday in a US-led airstrike hit eastern Deir Ezzor province as Kurdish-led forces backed by the International Coalition press to seize last pockets of the Daesh (ISIS), local sources said....

An explosion outside an office belonging to an al-Qaida-linked group in the country's northwestern on Friday killed at least 11 people and wounded several others, opposition activists said. The blast comes a week after members of the al-Qaida-linked Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Arabic for...

A top aide of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Washington for a meeting with U.S. secretary of state on Friday, media reports said. Kim Yong-chol and his team flew from Beijing directly to Washington for a three-day stay in the capital, Yonhap news agency reported. The...

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Friday called on Russia to destroy a controversial missile system Washington says breaches a key arms control treaty. "We believe Russia can save this treaty," Maas said after talks with Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov, referring to the...

Jean-Baptiste Moreau, a farmer who splits his time between parliament and his cow sheds, thought he would be part of the solution to France's political problems when he was elected. The 41-year-old won a seat in parliament in June 2017 in what some commentators termed a "velvet revolution"...

Russia on Friday said it has agreed for France and Germany to monitor shipping traffic in the Kerch Strait following a naval confrontation between Moscow and Kiev last year. Russian ships fired on and seized three Ukrainian navy vessels in the narrow strait -- shared between Russia and...