Turkey may start a new military operation in Syria at any moment, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday, adding that U.S. President Donald Trump had given a positive response to Turkey's plans for an operation east of the Euphrates. Erdogan made the comments during a speech in the...

Iran President Hassan Rouhani's son-in-law resigned Monday just two days after his appointment as head of Iran's geological survey sparked accusations of nepotism, official news agency IRNA reported. Kambiz Mehdizadeh, in his early thirties and reportedly married to Rouhani's daughter...

A senior military commander was killed in a mortar attack by Houthi rebels east of Yemeni capital Sanaa, according to a military spokesman on Monday.  Brigadier-General Taher Hamid al-Sharabi was killed when a shell struck Nahm district, east of Sanaa, Colonel Abdul Basset al-Bahar...

Qatari Foreign Minister Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has called for better engagement among Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members to solve regional crises.  "We are not encouraging the unilateral measures against any country. Sanctions are not the way forward to solve a...

Syria's Assad regime and its allies have forced approximately 130,000 people to migrate -- through fierce attacks and blockades -- from cities it captured this year.  On the occasion of International Migrants Day (Dec. 18), Anadolu Agency collected data from local sources that...

Scores of Palestinian women staged a rally in the Gaza Strip on Monday to demand the release of their relatives held in Israeli prisons.  Protesters waved banners calling for the release of hundreds of Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces.  "Prisoners suffer...

An Israeli Knesset committee approved on Monday a bill that would block early release of Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, according to the Knesset (Israel’s parliament). The draft law has been approved by the Constitution, Law and Justice Committee and will be put for vote in a...

At least 62 al-Shabaab militants were killed over the weekend in a series of airstrikes in Gandarshe, Somalia, the U.S military said in a statement on Monday. The first airstrikes on Saturday killed 34 militants followed by 28 others on Sunday. "All six airstrikes were conducted...

After washing up her family’s dishes over a plastic basin, 11-year-old Cedra sits on the floor of the dank basement in Syria to tackle her day’s studies.A dark staircase leads from a street in the town of Al-Bab to the gloomy space that the young girl, her blind father and some 40 other families...

Saudi Arabia says it rejects last week’s U.S. Senate resolution that put the blame for the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi squarely on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The statement from the kingdom is an unusually strong rebuke of the Senate. Saudi Arabia said the...

Sudan’s president on Sunday became the first Arab League leader to visit Syria since civil war erupted there nearly eight years ago. Omar al-Bashir was greeted at the Damascus airport by Bashar Assad before they both headed to the presidential palace, where they held talks on bilateral...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said head of the Air Intelligence, Major General Jamil Hassan, is in critical condition after a stroke. The war criminal, 65, was ambulanced from his office in Damascus to al-Shami Hospital in the upper-class suburb of al-Malki. This...

Georgia's first female president has been sworn in on Sunday after being elected with over 59 percent of the votes in late November. The oath-taking ceremony of the country’s first woman president Salome Zurabishvili was attended by Turkish Vice President Fuat Oktay. Armenian...

Pakistan on Sunday observed the fourth anniversary of a deadly attack on an army-run school in a northwestern city, which claimed lives of nearly 150 people, mostly schoolchildren.   The main observance was held at Peshawar’s Army Public School, which was attended by parents of...

Police in the Belgian capital Brussels on Sunday used teargas and anti-riot vehicles to disperse a large number of far-right and anti-migration protesters near the EU buildings. Around 1,000 protesters gathered at Schuman Square to demonstrate against the UN Migration Pact, signed in an...

A bomb blast in a northern Syrian town held by Turkish-backed opposition forces killed at least eight people Sunday, activists said, the latest in a series of attacks to hit areas along the border where Turkey has troops. The spike in attacks follows Turkish threats to expand its...

The German government anticipates a drop in asylum applications in 2018, even including the thousands of babies born to recent migrants. The Bild newspaper reported Sunday on a preliminary report it obtained showing about 166,000 asylum applications will have been filed by year's end,...

The appointment of President Hassan Rouhani's son-in-law as head of Iran's geological survey has renewed accusations of nepotism and led Sunday to the resignation of a senior official, according to conservative media. The appointment of Kambiz Mehdizadeh, in his early thirties and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- From her balcony on the third floor, the old woman with a yellow vest appeared, the protestors in the street chanted to her, a broad smile filling her face, as if she had just achieved a dream that had eluded her for a long time and soon burst into tears. She cried until her...

Turkey would consider working with Syrian President Bashar Assad if he won a democratic election, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told a conference in Qatar Sunday. Turkey backed the opposition to Assad in the Syrian civil war that broke out in 2011. Assad, whose...