Iraqi warplanes hit a meeting of Daesh (ISIS) leaders near Deir al-Zor in Syria Monday, destroying the building they were gathered in, the military said in a statement, without giving further details about the militants targeted. The statement said F-16 fighter jets carried out the raid...

Iran's intelligence ministry said Monday it had arrested 11 "economic disruptors" who misappropriated some $400 million earmarked for essential goods and smuggled the money out of the country. Authorities have been cracking down on those seeking to exploit the collapsing rial, which has...

Russia said Monday its security services had detained a U.S. citizen in Moscow accused of spying, the latest in a series of espionage cases between Russia and the West. The FSB domestic security service said the American was arrested on Friday "while carrying out an act of espionage."...

A Turkish television station has broadcast CCTV footage showing men carrying cases and bags which it says contained slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's body parts.   The images shown on A-Haber television late Sunday feature three men carrying five suitcases and two large black...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia has transferred tens of detainees from the cities Manbij and Raqqa to northeastern Hasaka province as two threats rise by the imminent Turkish offensive and US troops shutdown, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The...

A United Arab Emirates appeals court upheld a 10-year jail sentence against prominent pro-democracy activist Ahmed Mansoor on charges of criticizing the Emirati government on social media, two sources familiar with the case said Monday. The court also confirmed a fine of 1 million...

A regional boss of Iran's state broadcaster IRIB has been fired after inadvertently letting a Jackie Chan sex scene slip through its tight censorship rules, local media reported Monday. Viewers on Iran's Kish Island were shocked when their local TV station showed the martial arts star...

An Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian to 18 years imprisonment Monday for stabbing to death a British woman in occupied Jerusalem last year, under a plea bargain acknowledging he is mentally ill. Jamil Tamimi, 59, killed 21-year-old exchange student Hannah Bladon on a tram as she was...

Day after day Nabil al-Hakimi, a humanitarian official in Taiz, one of Yemen's largest cities, went to work feeling he had a "mountain" on his shoulders. Billions of dollars in food and other foreign aid was coming into his war-ravaged homeland, but millions of Yemenis were still living a step...

A Philippine general says at least two people were killed and 21 others wounded when a bomb believed to be detonated remotely by suspected Muslim militants exploded near the entrance of a mall in the country's south. Maj. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana says the bomb went off Monday near the...

White flowers and flickering candles sat atop a low table inside the simple wooden home in remote, rural Guatemala. Nearby was a small pair of rubber boots, sized to fit an 8-year-old. Taped to the wall were three photos, alternately smiling and serious, bearing a simple epitaph for the...

Three confidants of President Donald Trump are indicating that the president's signature campaign pledge to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border won't be fulfilled as advertised. Trump sparked fervent chants of "Build that wall!" at rallies before and after his election and more...

President Donald Trump has ordered a slowdown to the withdrawal of U.S. forces in Syria, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday. "I think we're in a pause situation," the South Carolina Republican said outside the White House after lunch with the president. Trump announced...

Chinese firms are encouraging staff to buy Huawei smartphones following Canada’s arrest of a top Huawei executive on a US extradition request, which has triggered an outpouring of nationalist support. Several companies are offering employees subsidies for Huawei phone purchases, while...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- One pro-regime militant killed and four others wounded in rebels’ mortar fire in the coastal Latakia province, pro-regime media outlets reported Sunday. Rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl that militants of National Defense Units were infiltrating to rebels bastion...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The newly appointed Interior minister Mohammed Rahmoun has made a shake-up transfer within the powerful ministry included 40 brigadiers and 16 colonels, pro-regime media reported. Analysts say Bashar al-Assad has appointed Maj. Gen. Rahmoun to crush all opposition....

Syrian regime's tate news agency says President Bashar Assad has authorized Iraqi forces to attack Daesh (ISIS) inside Syria without waiting for permission from authorities in Damascus. Sunday's announcement highlights the close relations between the two neighboring Arab countries. On...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro told him that it was a matter of "when, not if" he moves his country's embassy in Israel to occupied Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The far-right Bolsonaro, who takes office Tuesday and is...

Thirty Russian children whose mothers are in Iraqi prison for belonging to Daesh (ISIS) left Baghdad Sunday to return home, a Russian diplomatic source said. The fathers of the children, young boys and girls between the ages of three and 10, are believed to have been killed in combat during...

Millions of voters in Bangladesh headed to the polls on Sunday in the country’s 11th parliamentary elections amid allegations of fraud and reports of violence. Today marked the country's first polls with full participation under the ruling party since the restoration of democracy in...