(Zaman Al Wasl) - Quarante-deux juges de Suweida ont engagé une action en justice contre un homme qui aurait révélé une corruption dans le système judiciaire et dans les services de sécurité de la province du sud dominée par les Druzes, l'accusant de "diffamation et atteinte à l'État"....

At least 168 people died, hundreds injured when a tsunami -- likely triggered by a volcanic eruption -- hit Indonesia's Sunda Strait Saturday night, according to the country’s national disaster agency.  Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the National Disaster Management Agency,...

Executions in Saudi Arabia rose significantly in the first eight months after Mohammed bin Salman became deputy crown prince, a London-based human rights organization said. According to Reprieve, 133 people were executed between June 2017 and March 2018, nearly twice as many as the 67...

The U.S. special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat Daesh has submitted his resignation, CBS News reported Saturday. Brett McGurk's resignation will take effect Dec. 31. He has served the post for three years. McGurk worked under the past three...

Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a member of the Saudi royal family, died on Saturday at the age of 88, according to Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya. His death was confirmed by his son Prince Abdulaziz bin Talal on Twitter adding that condolences will be received for three days starting Sunday....

The head of a UN mission tasked with monitoring Yemen’s ceasefire in the port city of Al-Hudaydah arrived in Aden on Saturday, according to a local source. Patrick Cammaert, a retired Dutch general, arrived aboard UN plane from the Jordanian capital Amman, a source at the Aden airport...

A driver was accidentally killed on Friday in the fifth week of the Yellow Vest protests in the southern French city of Perpignan, bringing the total number of people killed since the start of the protests to 10, local media reported. The 36-year-old driver died after his car crashed...

Nearly 300,000 Syrians returned to their homes after the Turkish military conducted successful operations in the region, the interior minister said Saturday "The number of Syrians who returned to their country after the Operations Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch is 291,790," Suleyman...

Demonstrations continued in Sudan for a fourth day on Saturday over the deteriorating economic conditions in the country.   Protests broke out in Aba Island and Er-Rahad in northern Sudan and in the southern town of Berber, according to local residents.   Eyewitnesses...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A ten-year-old boy was killed Saturday when militants of the former al-Qaeda branch opened fire on a van carrying civilians in northern Idlib province, local activists said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said its checkpoint in the town of Ma'arret Mesrin had...

At least six people were killed and others wounded when a suicide car bombing targeted a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Saturday morning, officials said. "What we know about the attack is that a suicide car bomb blast targeted one of our security...

Iran's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the U.S. military presence in Syria had been "illogical and a source of tension", Iranian state news agency IRNA reported. President Donald Trump has begun what will be a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, declaring Wednesday they have...

An 18-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli forces died of his wounds Saturday, the fourth fatality from protests along the Gaza border a day earlier, health officials in the Hamas-run enclave said. Ayman Shehr was shot in the stomach in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, health ministry...

Pope Francis vowed Friday that the Catholic Church will “never again” cover up clergy sex abuse and demanded that priests who have raped and molested children turn themselves in. Francis dedicated his annual Christmas speech to the Vatican bureaucracy to abuse - evidence that a year of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Some 110,000 Syrian refugees have returned from Lebanon to their home country in 2018, Lebanese General Security head Abbas Ibrahim told local news channel MTV Friday, The Daily Star reported. Such a number contracts with statement delivered by the Lebanese Caretaker...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is to ban flights in and out of the country by Iran’s Mahan Air, which is under U.S. sanctions over allegations it ferries troops and supplies into Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad, a newspaper reported on Friday. Bild said the German government...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The command of US Army in Syria has informed Jaish Maghawir al-Thawra that it will shut its base in the al-Taf border crossing with Iraq, following President Donald Trump's shock decision to withdraw from Syria on Thursday.  Muhannad Tula'a, Commander of The...

A U.S. aircraft carrier has sailed into the Arab Gulf, becoming the first in the region since President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal earlier this year. The December 21 arrival of the USS John C. Stennis came amid repeated threats by Iranian officials to...

French police arrested 14 Yellow Vest protesters late Thursday when a group of protesters blocked a car factory in the east of the country, local media reported. The protesters blocked the entrance and the exit of a car factory in the eastern city of Pfastatt. Police...

President Donald Trump made the decision to remove the U.S. troops from Syria during a telephone call with his Turkish counterpart, The Associated Press reported Friday. Trump made the decision without consulting his top national security officials and key U.S. allies, The AP reported,...