Anti-government protesters gained new allies Monday as French paramedics and students joined ongoing rallies while the prime minister met with political rivals in a bid to ease the anger following riots that rocked Paris. Dozens of ambulances blocked a bridge leading to the National Assembly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Monday have taken ground inside Hajin town, main Daesh stronghold in eastern Syria, local activists said. The Kurdish-led alliance, backed by US  airstrikes, has seized control of al-Hawama neighborhood and the National...

An Egyptian criminal court has ordered the conditional release of prominent blogger and journalist Wael Abbas, a judicial source said Monday, rejecting an appeal by state security prosecutors to keep him in detention. Abbas, an award-winning journalist and rights activist, was arrested in...

Around 28,000 Syrians have returned home from Jordan since the border between the two Arab countries was reopened in mid-October, a Jordanian security source said Monday. Amman estimates that it has taken in close to 1.3 million refugees from its war-torn neighbor since the war in Syria...

 (Zaman Al Wasl TV)- For ten years, the 16-year-old Moustafa and his sister Aseel have been suffering from Thalassemia.  They are in dire need of blood transfusion every month amid severe health and living conditions. Their father died under torture by...

U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Pakistan’s premier seeking his help in the peace process in Afghanistan, local media reported on Monday. "Today I have received a letter from President Trump in which he asked for assistance in the Afghan peace talks to end the...

Jordan will organize an international conference in support of East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al Aqsa mosque compound on Dec. 20, according to the country’s Islamic affairs minister.  “The Aqsa mosque is facing grave and daily violations and incursions that provoke the sentiments of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Monday have intensified its artillery shelling on rebel-held town of Jarjanaz in northern Idlib province amid mass exodus from the town, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. No casualties have been reported in the artillery fire at Jarjanaz,...

NATO foreign ministers will discuss security challenges this week, the head of the organization said on Monday. "NATO Foreign Ministers are meeting this week to address a wide range of security challenges, including Russia’s destabilising behaviour, violent extremism in the Middle East...

Israeli forces rounded up 13 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military on Monday.  The individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army said in a statement, without elaborating on...

A senior Hezbollah source said Monday neither the group nor Iranian positions in Syria had been struck last week during what Syrian state media had reported as an attack south of Damascus. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Israel carried out a missile attack in the area last...

Qatar will withdraw from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) as of January, the country’s energy minister announced on Monday.  Speaking at a press conference, Saad al-Kaabi said the decision comes after Qatar reviewed ways in which it could improve its global...

Yemeni officials say some 50 rebels wounded in fighting will be flown to neighboring Oman for treatment. Their planned evacuation Monday on an Ethiopian Airways flight from Sanaa would meet one of the conditions set by the Houthi rebels to participate in peace talks in Sweden later this...

 U.S.-led war planes targeted an Islamic State leader on Sunday in Syria responsible for killing hostages including an American, Washington’s envoy to the coalition fighting the jihadist group said. “Earlier today, coalition air forces conducted precision strikes against a number of...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that China had agreed to cut import tariffs on American-made cars, a potential boon for automakers including Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and BMW (BMWG.DE) who manufacture in the United States for export to China. Trump, fresh from agreeing a 90-day...

After a months-long investigation into the Myanmar government’s persecution against the Rohingya, a U.S.-based humanitarian rights law group has found that there is a reasonable basis to conclude that Rohingya are victims of genocide. The Washington-based Public International Law and...

Omani Energy Minister Mohammed bin Hamad al-Rumhy said on Sunday that he believed there was a consensus among OPEC oil producers that oil output should be cut. Asked if he thinks there is a consensus for a cut, he told reporters: “I think so, yes. We enjoyed the benefits of cuts.”...

Four Libyan oil export ports that were closed last week because of bad weather have reopened, a Libyan shipping source and port engineers said on Sunday. Tankers were docking at the eastern Ras Lanuf, Es Sider, Zueitina and Brega ports as well as the western Zawiya terminal linked to the El...

Iran has ended its seasonal ban on rice imports, allowing importers to register their orders, Iranian news agencies reported on Sunday. Deputy Agriculture Minister Ali Akbar Mehrfard announced the end of the annual ban in a letter dated Nov. 28, the ISNA semi-official news agency reported....

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had an "incredible relationship" with Chinese President Xi Jinping before the start of a meeting between the two leaders on Saturday. "The relationship is very special. The relationship that I have with President Xi, I think that's going to be a very...