A 54-year-old Argentinian woman who was lured into war-wracked Syria two years ago on a marriage promise was finally on her way home Saturday, a Syrian rebel official said. History teacher Nancy Roxana Papa had accepted the invitation of a Syrian man she had met online three years earlier...

  China and Argentina signed a $9 billion currency swap deal to boost the crisis-stricken South American country's foreign currency reserves, its central bank announced Sunday. Struggling to recover after a currency crisis earlier this year, Latin America's third largest economy sought...

Authorities in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital Sanaa are sterilizing water supplies at wells, distribution networks and houses to help stem the world’s worst outbreak of cholera. Nearly four years of war between a Saudi-led coalition and the Iranian-aligned Houthi group have crippled...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in new legal report that at least 15 people died due to torture in Syria last month.   The report notes that the international law completely prohibits torture and other forms of cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment. This being a...

The lawyer of a top Palestinian official in Jerusalem arrested for illegally collaborating with Palestinian security services says an Israeli court has released his client to house arrest. Lawyer Rami Othman says the court ruled Sunday the Palestinians' Jerusalem governor, Adnan Ghaith,...

The Israeli police have said their investigation has found sufficient evidence for bribery and fraud charges to be brought against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, in a third corruption case against the leader. Authorities on Sunday alleged Netanyahu awarded regulatory...

Russia has finished an advanced anti-access / area denial (A2AD) network that constrains U.S. freedom of maneuver in Syria and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. The zone integrates air defense and electronic warfare systems imported from Russia with modernized equipment formerly operated by Syria....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said Sunday it had thwarted  a car-bomb attack by Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Deir Ezzor province amid mass displacement for tens of families from battlefield areas. SDF fighters have been attempting to take Daesh's last Syrian...

US president on Saturday agreed to not raise the tariff rate on goods imported from China, the White House announced. According to a statement issued by the White House, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a "highly successful meeting" during the sidelines of...

Perpetrators of the violence in ongoing protests in Paris will be punished, said French president Saturday. Speaking during a press conference of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Emmanuel Macron said that those who are responsible for the attack on police officers and vandalization of a...

Iran said Sunday its missile program is defensive and not in breach of U.N. resolutions, the state news agency IRNA reported, without confirming a U.S. allegation Tehran had carried out a new missile test. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Saturday condemned what he described as...

The murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is not an issue of Turkey but the whole world, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday in Buenos Aires. Erdogan said Turkey never saw the killing of the journalists as a political issue, adding that the incident is and will...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Since more than 6 million Syrians have fled the war-torn country, 10 families have founded a refuge in Gaza where they share the suffering of two million Palestinians in the self-governing territory. "We are a group of Syrian families who faced Regime’s daily...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that the wave of violence and vandalism in Paris on Saturday could not be justified in any way and had nothing to do with a peaceful expression of legitimate anger. “No cause justifies that security forces are attacked, shops pillaged,...

Thousands of people waving Spanish flags rallied in Madrid on Saturday in support of national unity and against Catalonia’s ongoing campaign to secede from Spain. The Catalan secession crisis and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s decision to take a more conciliatory tone with...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday he should hold another summit to discuss the situation in Idlib province where the two countries are trying to create a sustainable demilitarised zone. Erdogan made the suggestion during a meeting with...

Yemen's central bank is awaiting deposits worth $3 billon from foreign sources, the state news agency SABA quoted its governor, Mohammed Zammam, as saying on Saturday. "There is a set of decisions the United Nations or some countries will take regarding the new deposits," Zammam said....

The CIA claims that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman may have ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in messages he sent to leader of killing squad, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.  "At least 11 messages to his closest adviser, who oversaw the team that...

Police used tear gas and water cannons on Saturday to disperse protests against a hike in fuel prices that turned violent. Thousands of "yellow vest" protesters have gathered in Paris for the last two weeks to protest President Emmanuel Macron's controversial fuel tax. During...

Violence killed 231 civilians in war-torn Syria in November, according to a Syrian NGO on Saturday.  In a statement, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said 89 children and 31 women were among those killed in the previous month.  The rights group said 79...