Civil defense forces in Yemen’s port city of Aden fought to extinguish a fire at an oil refinery on Friday, sparked hours earlier by an explosion, the cause of which was still unknown, the refinery company said. There were no reports of casualties. Separately, Saudi state...

President Donald Trump is edging closer to declaring a national emergency to fund his long-promised border wall, as pressure mounts to find an escape hatch from the three-week impasse that has closed parts of the government, leaving hundreds of thousands of workers without pay. Some...

The United States and United Nations voiced alarm Friday over the escalation of violence in Yemen and urged restraint after a rebel drone attack on the country's largest airbase killed six loyalist soldiers. The United States, which supports the Saudi-led coalition against the Houthi...

Turkey sent a convoy of commando units and armored vehicles to the Turkish province of Hatay on the Syrian border, state-owned Anadolu news agency said Friday. The convoy was being sent to reinforce a Turkish military presence on the border near the northern province of Idlib, the last...

An American military official says the U.S.-led military coalition has begun the process of withdrawing troops from Syria. Col. Sean Ryan, spokesman for the U.S.-coalition fighting Daesh (ISIS), says the U.S. started "the process of our deliberate withdrawal from Syria." In a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained a picture of a woman detainee Hana’a Abdulatif Khaled, who died under torture, and due to medical negligence in Damascus (Adra) Central Prison. The former detainee Luna al-Agha has revealed that Han’aa, who was born in 1987 in the town of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- َLeaked intelligence documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed that the Syrian officials and workers in sensitive positions were under a very tight scrutiny as the data collected about them includes even the silly details about their close life and inner circle....

Turkey's defense minister on Friday pledged to wage a campaign against a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militia, sharpening focus on a potential conflict the United States has sought to prevent. The comments from Hulusi Akar, on an unannounced visit to inspect troops stationed near the...

A car bomb blast killed at least one person and injured more than a dozen the Iraqi town of Al-Qaim on the Syrian border on Friday, a statement from Iraq's military said. The military said one person was killed, and 16 people were injured. A local senior police source put the number...

The United States plans to host a global summit focused on the Middle East, particularly Iran, next month in Poland, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News in a report published on Friday. In an interview with the news network, Pompeo said the international gathering would be...

Israeli forces have continued conducting raids in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, triggering clashes with local Palestinians. On Thursday evening, the fifth consecutive day of raids, dozens of soldiers and at least eight military vehicles raided Ramallah’s Al-Masyoon district,...

Britain’s Andy Murray announced on Friday that "daily pain" might keep him from Wimbledon this year, and floated the possibility of retiring from tennis. Three-time Grand Slam winner Murray told a news conference that his hip pain is becoming "unbearable," and the Australia Open may be...

Thousands of people marched in Argentina on Thursday to protest hikes in water, electricity and natural gas prices. Many joined the call to protest by workers’ and teachers' unions as well as political parties and non-governmental organizations. People gathered in the main...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it had the impression that the United States wanted to stay in Syria despite the announced withdrawal of U.S. troops, RIA news agency reported. U.S. President Donald Trump last month unexpectedly announced a U.S. troop withdrawal from Syria.

The partial shutdown of the US government could have serious consequences for air safety, according to unions representing aviation workers, which are calling for an immediate resolution to the budgetary stalemate. Some 800,000 federal employees, including those from the Department of...

Egyptian authorities say they have deported a German citizen of Egyptian origin who had been detained last month in Luxor airport carrying maps and a compass, raising suspicions he was plotting terrorism. Cairo airport officials said Friday that 18-year-old Isa El Sabbagh, from Giessen,...

Just one day after Cristiano Ronaldo’s ex-girlfriend Jasmine Lennard accused him of subjecting her to years of verbal and emotional abuse, there is a new development in the rape case against the Juventus star. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the Las Vegas Metropolitan...

  (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rebuked President Donald Trump for threatening to block disaster aid for California, a state recently ravaged by deadly, destructive wildfires whose mostly Democratic political leaders often spar with the...

You might assume a government shutdown that is about to set an unwelcome record, and is being battled over funding for a border wall most Americans oppose, just might leave President Donald Trump itching to make a deal. You would be wrong. In a combative exchange with reporters...

Air France will suspend its flights to Saudi Arabia from Feb. 1 due to the route's poor economic performance, the company said Thursday. Direct flights between Paris and the Saudi capital Riyadh will now be ensured by Saudi Arabian Airlines as part of a cooperation agreement between the...