Palestinians have aborted U.S. attempts to exclude Palestine from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the foreign minister said Saturday.  Riyad al-Malki said the Palestinian delegation to the OPCW’s Fourth Review Conference has rejected “U.S. attempts...

In what appears to be statistical proof of evident upsurge in the Afghan war, the US announced to have dropped close to 6000 bombs in Afghanistan this year so far. According to the figures by the US Air Force Central Command (AFCENT), the US forces released 5,982 munitions in...

President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital has set off an increasingly visible battle in the city's eastern sector - with an emboldened Israel seeking to cement its control over the contested area and Palestinians pushing back to maintain their limited foothold. In...

Iran says it has launched a domestically built destroyer in the Arab Gulf capable of traveling some five months without refueling. State TV reported Saturday that it had taken six years to build the 1,300-ton vessel, named Sahand after a mountain in northern Iran. The Sahand has...

Zaman Al Wasl TV visited the refugee camp of the Cement Association in northern Aleppo province, one of the camps that was hastily set up to receive hundreds of displaced and since then it's still 'primitive'. The camp lacks the basic necessities of life, with a total absence...

George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94. The World War II hero, who also presided...

US President Donald Trump reaffirmed Friday in a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in that he wants a second summit with North Korea's leader, the White House said. Trump and Moon, meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, "reaffirmed their commitment...

Local officials in a Washington neighborhood have voted to rename a street outside Saudi Arabia's embassy in honor of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. If approved by the city council, the advisory commission's measure means a stretch of road going past the expansive embassy...

Pep Guardiola says FIFA proposals designed to limit the number of players allowed to be loaned out to rival clubs will seriously alter Manchester City's business model. City and Chelsea are among the Premier League teams who will be most seriously impacted by the proposals that, from...

In a nondescript brick building on the snowy edge of Estonia's second city Tartu, soldiers in camouflage tap silently at computers. They are troops manning the 21st century's front line. With its harsh lighting and partitioned desks, the room could be any soulless office. But this is...

Amal Clooney and two other lawyers say a group of Yazidi women victimized by Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria have applied to join a criminal case against French cement company Lafarge. In June, the multinational firm was handed preliminary charges in France that included financing a...

U.S.-backed fighters in Syria have captured a senior Daesh (ISIS) leader who served as an assistant to the group's self-declared "caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, they said Friday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia alliance that holds the quarter of Syria east of...

Six former and current White House staffers were reprimanded Friday for posting political tweets, such as the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" and "MAGA," on Twitter accounts they use for government business. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel sent warning letters to the six...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of rebel-held areas in northern Syria  came out to streets   to rally against the regime in spite of a fragile buffer zone deal and the heavy bombardment. As every Friday for the past 14 weeks, demonstrators held up the three-star flag of the Syrian...

The U.N. refugee agency appealed Friday for an urgent solution to the plight of 12 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean, as activists said they had evacuated one of them to Malta. Spanish aid group Proactiva Open Arms, which helped a Spanish fishing vessel rescue the migrants more...

The Vatican has made more progress in its path to greater financial transparency by securing approval to join the European banking system that harmonizes electronic payments across the continent. With the endorsement of the European Council, the Vatican City State and Holy See are now...

Authorities have arrested 12 suspected members of Daesh (ISIS) and seized bomb making materials since a suicide attack last month, the Interior Ministry said Friday. Authorities have also "dismantled four takfiri [Sunni extremist] sleeper cells in several parts of Tunisia", the ministry...

French President Emmanuel Macron told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Europeans will insist on international experts being part of the investigations into a Saudi journalist's murder, an Elysee official said Friday. In a 5-min exchange on the sidelines of the G20 summit in...

A Turkish court has ruled that the former leader of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition remain in prison, his lawyer said on Twitter Friday, after top EU officials last week called for the politician's swift release. Ten days ago the European Court of Human Rights urged Turkey to swiftly...

Iran said Friday the European Union must be given more time to set up a trade mechanism meant to circumvent reimposed U.S. sanctions on Tehran, but warned it could not "wait forever". Brussels is working on a payment system to continue trade and business ties with Iran after the U.S....