Yemen’s warring parties have reached an agreement on cease-fire in the port city of Hudaydah, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres confirmed on Thursday. Guterres said that the agreement covered the deployment of the neutral forces, as well as the large-scale cease-fire in the...

The board of the French automaker Renault said Thursday it was keeping Carlos Ghosn as its chief executive, after an internal review of his pay package found that it had conformed with French law. Ghosn has been held under arrest in Japan since November 19 on charges of financial...

Up to 15,000 Syrian rebels are ready to join a Turkish military offensive against U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in northeast Syria, but no date has been set for the operation, a spokesman for the main Turkish-backed Syrian rebel group said Thursday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said...

Germany wants to avoid a hard Brexit, but the U.K. cannot "cherry-pick" the deal, Germany's foreign minister said ahead of a key EU summit on Thursday. “We must do everything possible to avoid a hard Brexit. But it should be clear: Withdrawal means withdrawal. There will be no...

Kurdish-led forces Thursday moved deep into Hajin, the main village in the last pocket still held by Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Syria, an opposition-aligned monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, with support from airstrikes conducted by the U.S.-led coalition, deployed across the...

Israeli forces rounded up 40 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian NGO on Thursday.  In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said ten people were arrested in raids in the towns of Kubar and Silwad near...

At least nine people were killed and 47 others injured when a high-speed train crashed into a pilot engine traveling along the same rails in the capital Ankara, transportation and infrastructure minister said Thursday. Nine people were killed, including three mechanics, while 47 others...

The small town of Abassan in the Gaza Strip is a tough place to infiltrate everyone knows everyone else and outsiders passing through quickly attract attention. So when strangers drove through town, suspicious Hamas security men stopped the van and questioned those inside.The answers didn’t add...

From the Central American caravans trekking desperately northward to the mass exodus from Venezuela, 2018 was the year the migration crisis swept the Americas and reached the doorstep of the United States. Scenes of Syrian and African refugees risking their lives to reach Europe's shores...

A high-speed train crashed into a locomotive in the Turkish capital on Thursday, killing four people and injuring 43, the Ankara governor said. Governor Vasip Sahin told reporters in televised remarks that "43 people were injured and unfortunately four of our citizens were found dead", as the...

The US Senate sent a fresh warning to President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia Wednesday by greenlighting a vote that could end US military support for Riyadh's war in Yemen. Anger at the human cost of the war, as well as outrage over the killing of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in...

US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen delivered a blistering attack on his ex-boss as he was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for multiple crimes. US District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan sentenced Cohen to 36 months for the payments, which violated...

     (Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian forces on Wednesday have recaptured the borderline with Iraq from Daesh (ISIS) as heavy clashes enter the third week in the jihadist group's last major foothold.  The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been attempting to take...

Prime Minister Theresa May won a confidence vote from her Conservative party on Wednesday, but 117 of her lawmakers said she was no longer the right leader to implement Britain's exit from the European Union. Britain's March 29 exit has been plunged into crisis by parliamentary...

An adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tendered his resignation following allegations of sexual assault. David Keyes, Netanyahu's spokesman with the foreign press, formally resigned Wednesday, nearly three months after taking a leave of absence after he was accused...

Yemeni government sources confirmed Wednesday that a mass prisoner swap with rebels included Saudi soldiers fighting alongside state troops, as U.N.-brokered peace talks neared their end. Two government officials, including one in the delegation at the talks in Sweden, told AFP that the...

Bangladesh's consul general in Istanbul on Wednesday praised bilateral ties with Turkey and Ankara’s support to the country over the Rohingya crisis.  Speaking at Uskudar University in Istanbul to mark the 47th Victory Day of Bangladesh, Mohammad Monirul Islam said: “Our relations...

An Iraqi court on Wednesday sentenced six people to death over a deadly car bombing that killed scores in the eastern Diyala province in 2015. The Daesh terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack that targeted a marketplace in the province, killing 115 people and injuring...

At least one person was killed and 21 others were injured in a car bombing in the opposition-held Azaz town in northern Syria on Wednesday, according to the White Helmets civil defense agency.  The explosion struck near a local hospital in the town, it said.  Rescuers...

Turkey will start an operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria in a "few days," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, a move that could further complicate relations with the United States. "We will start the operation to clear the east of the Euphrates from...