Israel has formally protested to Jordan after a government spokesperson stepped on an Israeli flag during a visit to a trade union in Amman.   Jumana Ghunaimat was seen stepping on a drawing of the Israeli flag as she entered the building of the Jordanian trade union on Thursday to...

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called for forming an international commission to investigate Israeli excavations in the occupied city of East Jerusalem and beneath the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.   In a statement on Saturday, the ministry warned that the Israeli...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Some moneychangers and jewelers in northern Idlib province have staged a strike over the killing of their fellow by gangsters, urging to local rebel factions to halt such crimes and to enhance security. Lutfi Tanari, jeweler, told Zaman al-Wasl that the thieves...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, a former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells new torture memo about Syrian journalist arrested in 2014 over her covering in Damascus suburbs and since then no reports confirm her release. General amnesty or a reconciliation deal is an...

The mother of a boy who died while in U.S. custody says her son was healthy when he left Guatemala with his father on their journey hoping to migrate to the United States. The mother of 8-year-old Felipe Gomez Alonzo, Catarina Alonzo, spoke Saturday with Associated Press journalists at...

Syrian refugee Mohammed surveys the fields of bright red strawberries visible beneath their protective plastic tunnels, which offer the promise of work, but soon they will all be gone. Since fleeing war in Syria three years ago, the 38-year-old and his family of eight have lived...

Voting was underway Sunday in Bangladesh’s contentious parliamentary elections, seen as a referendum on what critics call Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s increasingly authoritarian rule, amid complaints from both ruling party and opposition activists of attacks on supporters and candidates....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nora (pseudonym), who took shelter in a desert camp for displaced people along the Syria-Jordan border, was surprised by signs of labor last February, but due to the lack of any medical services, she soon died with her fetus, while waiting for any ambulance or any medical aid...

In a period lasting about three months, the allied U.S.-led coalition and YPG/PKK terrorists killed 165 civilians in one region of eastern Syria, a Syrian NGO said in a report on Saturday. Working to expel Daesh from the area, coalition forces attacks around Deir ez-Zor killed 153...

At least five people were detained in Yellow Vest protests in the Netherlands on Saturday. Responding to calls on social media, around 200 protesters gathered in front of the country's parliament and marched to the city center, and clashed with security forces. Police detained...

A rescue helicopter crashed in United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday, killing all of the crew, according to UAE official news agency WAM. The helicopter was conducting search and rescue operation in Jabal Jis area in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, the report said. The report...

A total of 118 irregular migrants were held across Turkey, according to security sources on Saturday. In Turkey's northwestern Edirne province, the security forces held seven irregular migrants after stopping a suspicious vehicle in the Havsa district. In another operation in...

President Donald Trump on Saturday blamed Democrats for the death of two migrant children in U.S. custody who crossed the border from Mexico. "Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people...

Following its surprise decision last week to withdraw its troops from Syria, the first U.S. military warehouse near the Iraqi border was evacuated on Friday. According to a reliable local source, the U.S. forces vacated a warehouse in Malikiya in the northeast Hassaka province....

Syrian forces have deployed around the city of Manbij at the request of the Kurds, but Abu Azeez Jaber still fears a U.S. military withdrawal will see Turkish troops enter. "People are terrified first of the Americans withdrawing, and second of the Turks entering," the 48-year-old cook...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As ‘2019’ knocks Christmas bells, the displacement of Syrian refugees in Lebanon have been continued for the eighth year as if they pay a price for their rebellious stand against the Syrian regime and its security arsenal. Arsal's border camps are one of the largest in...

The 2-year-old son of a Yemeni woman who sued the Trump administration to let her into the country to be with the ailing boy has died, the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced. Abdullah Hassan died in UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in Oakland, where his father Ali Hassan...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As an Austrian court began a lawsuit against the Brigadier-General Khalid Halabi, former head of the State Security in Raqqa, Zaman al-Wasl has obtained a testimony from defected intelligence asserting that Halabi did his best to lessen the security noose on detainees and...

Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saturday announced a deal with the government to reopen a road between Sanaa and the port city of Al-Hudaydah to allow access to relief aid.   “An initial agreement has been reached between Houthi and government representatives to reopen the main road...

A day ahead of parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, over a dozen international rights groups on Saturday expressed concern over an increasingly “restrictive” environment. Sixteen advocacy group for human rights and democracy decried “the restrictive electoral environment surrounding...