Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at Israel late Saturday, Israel's army said, prompting retaliatory strikes on the enclave's rulers Hamas as tensions rose after another day of border protests. "Earlier tonight, a rocket was launched from Gaza towards Israeli...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Amal Hospital is currently providing free medical services to more than 9,000 women and children per month in northern Aleppo province, such a number highlights the remarkable role of charity hospitals in opposition-held areas as most of people suffer and aftermath of...

Artillery shelling by regime forces pounded parts of the northwestern Idlib province Saturday, thwarting an infiltration attempt by militants as tension rises in the region following victories by Al-Qaeda-linked militants against Turkey-backed opposition fighters, Syria's state news agency...

Egypt's Interior Ministry said security forces have killed six Islamist militants in a raid on their desert hideout south of Cairo. It said the militants killed in the early Saturday raid were hiding in an area between the southern provinces of Sohag and Assiut. The militants were...

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei said on Saturday it had sacked an employee arrested in Poland on spying charges in a case that could intensify Western security concerns about the company.  Poland’s internal affairs minister, Joachim Brudzinski, called for the...

A fire at a refinery in Yemen’s southern port city of Aden spread to a second storage tank on Saturday, injuring six people, sources at the refinery said. They told Reuters that civil defense forces had failed to contain the fire sparked by an explosion on Friday. The cause of the blast...

The ongoing partial government shutdown became the longest closure in U.S. history Saturday as President Donald Trump continues to insist on funding for his border wall, a demand Democrats staunchly resist. Another pay-less pay day came and went Friday for the 800,000 federal workers...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to participate in an Iran-focused conference in Poland, according to Israeli media.  Israeli Channel 10 said Netanyahu received an invitation two weeks ago to attend the meeting, but he has not announced whether he is going...

Turkey’s foreign minister and his U.S. counterpart spoke over the phone, Turkish diplomatic sources said on Saturday. Mevlut Cavusoglu and Mike Pompeo discussed latest developments in Syria, said the sources, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media....

A new generation anti-ship Chinese missile, which Pakistan Navy is going to induct in 2021, will serve as a “deterrent” but simultaneously aggravate an already escalating arms race between the nuclear-armed neighbors, Pakistan and India, analysts said. The CM-302 -- capable of flying at...

Hungary will release a Syrian man serving prison time over his role in a border riot in 2015, a court spokesman said Friday. Ahmed H. was convicted for “complicity in an act of terror” and sentenced to seven years in prison. The Szeged Court of Appeals upheld the verdict but reduced his...

At least four people, including two firefighters, were killed after a gas explosion at a bakery in the French capital Paris on Saturday, the country’s interior minister said. In a statement, Paris police department said a fire broke out, followed by an explosion, in the bakery on Rue...

Hundreds of Palestinians gathered Saturday for the funeral of a woman killed by Israeli forces at a protest near the perimeter fence, this year's first fatality from the weekly mass demonstrations. Amal al-Taramsi, a 43-year-old activist who had regularly attended the protests, was shot...

In the National Museum of Damascus, archaeologist Muntajab Youssef works on an ancient stone bust from Palmyra, one of hundreds of artifacts his team is painstakingly restoring after they were damaged by Daesh (ISIS). Centuries-old statues and sculptures were wrecked by the extremists when they...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime ordered the residents of Tadamon neighborhood south of Damascus, who were forced to leave their homes to present a copy of a certified ‘title deed’ by the financial or the government’s Real Estate directorate to be allowed returning their...

Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, an Iraq war veteran who met dictator Bashar al-Assad in Syria during that country's devastating civil war, said Friday that she is launching a US presidential bid. "I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next...

Cristiano Ronaldo is “very calm” amid the latest developments in an alleged rape case involving an American woman, Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri said Friday. Ronaldo is being asked by police to provide a DNA sample in an investigation of the allegation by Kathryn Mayorga, a former model...

The Syrian regime-run news agency said Israeli warplanes fired a number of missiles toward the Damascus area on Friday, triggering Syrian air defense that shot down most of them. “The results of the aggression so far were limited to a strike on one of the warehouses at Damascus...

An 18-year-old Saudi woman’s flight from what she said was an abusive family has rallied opposition to the kingdom’s male guardianship system, still a major constraint on women despite the conservative Muslim country’s efforts to open up. Some freedoms have been granted under Crown Prince...

Egypt has arrested two German nationals on suspicion they tried to join a Daesh (ISIS) affiliate and deported one of them, Egyptian security sources said Friday. German media reported earlier this month that two Germans had gone missing after arriving separately in Egypt in December....