Israeli settlers on Tuesday destroyed 30 olive groves in the town of Yatta in the southern West Bank, according to a local activist.  A group of settlers chopped down the trees east of Yatta, Ratib al-Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committees in the city of Hebron,...

Moroccan security forces have dismantled a suspected Daesh cell in the North African country, according to the Interior Ministry on Tuesday.  In a statement, the ministry said three suspects had been detained for links to the Daesh terrorist group.  The suspects, aged...

For nearly four months, a Russian-Turkish ceasefire deal has protected three million people in Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib from a major regime offensive. But could a recent jihadist advance inside the northwestern stronghold, or even an expected US troop pullout from the...

When an 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker arrived in Bangkok she faced immediate deportation -- but instead she is in the hands of the UN refugee agency, her social media savvy galvanising a global campaign that caught the Thai government flat-footed. Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun fled the...

Iran will boost trade with India as the European Union struggles to find a way to circumvent a fresh US embargo on Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Tuesday. Brussels is working on a payment mechanism to keep financial transactions flowing with Iran, after the US ditched...

Four-time champion David Ferrer cruised through the opening round of the Auckland Classic Tuesday but South Korea's Chung Hyeon suffered a stunning loss to local underdog Rubin "Jose" Statham. Ferrer, 36, has retired from Grand Slams but the former world number three is making a few...

Some of the 49 migrants stranded off the coast of Malta are refusing food, one of the groups running the boats that rescued them reported Monday. "On board of #SeaWatch we are reporting episodes of people refusing food," Sea-Watch International tweeted Monday. "We fear that...

  Amazon overtook Microsoft to become the biggest company by market capitalization. Amazon for the first time closed out Monday's session as the world's biggest company by market capitalization, overtaking Microsoft and other fellow tech behemoths. The online sales...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that Turkey had promised to protect Kurdish fighters in Syria as he left on a regional tour that follows President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to pull troops. Pompeo said the assurance came from Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe on Monday announced plans to ban participation in unauthorised demonstrations as the government scrambles to try to end weeks of violent “Yellow Vest” protests. Eight weeks into an anti-government rebellion marked by weekly clashes in Paris...

The Lebanese Red Cross rescued more than 500 people from Akkar’s Semmaqieh refugee settlement Monday after their tents filled with floodwater as storm Norma battered Lebanon with fierce winds, heavy snow and rainfall. Red Cross vehicles transferred the 100 Syrian families to other settlements...

 World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, who was at odds with the Trump administration's policies on climate change, will resign effective Feb. 1, more than three years ahead of his term's expiration, the multilateral lender said Monday. Kim, 59, a physician and public health...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will deliver a "dramatic announcement" set to coincide with the evening news broadcast. Netanyahu said in statement on Twitter Monday that he would broadcast a "special announcement to the press." The embattled prime minister's...

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) officials will return to Moscow on Jan. 9 to retrieve laboratory data it required, Russia's minister of sport Pavel Kolobkov said Monday. Access to the lab and data before the end of 2018 was a condition of WADA's September decision to reinstate the...

A Daesh (ISIS) suicide bomber attacked a center for Kurdish forces in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa Monday, killing four civilians and an anti-jihadist fighter, a monitor said. The attacker blew himself up after entering the center run by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG),...

President Donald Trump Monday sought to end fears of an abrupt U.S. pullout from Syria, saying the fight against Daesh (ISIS) was not over and that withdrawal would be done in a "prudent" manner. "We will be leaving at a proper pace while at the same time continuing to fight ISIS and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Danish Ascent foundation in the city of Gribskov seeks to connect the refugees, including Syrians, with the host community in order to facilitate their integration and the cultural exchange throughout diverse activities which involves dozens of newcomers of refugees to...

The Israeli army said Monday it had carried out further air raids against Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip in response to a rocket being fired over its border. The Israeli air defense system intercepted the rocket which was fired overnight from the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave, the army...

The Kurdish-led force battling the remnants of Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria said Monday it captured five foreign militants, including two U.S. citizens. The two Americans, two Pakistanis and an Irishman were part of a cell planning an attack on civilians fleeing the militant group's...

A Thai court rejected an attempt to block the deportation of a Saudi woman who made a desperate plea for asylum after arriving at Bangkok airport, a lawyer said Monday. "They dismissed the request... They said we do not have enough evidence," said human rights lawyer Nadthasiri Bergman,...