Ukraine's border service said Thursday it would only allow Ukrainian citizens to travel to Crimea following the imposition of martial law until Dec. 26. President Petro Poroshenko earlier accused Russia's President Vladimir Putin of wanting to annex all of Ukraine and called for NATO to...

Following initial investigations, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has announced that Hay’at Tahrir al Sham, which has almost complete control of Kafranbel town in northern Idlib province, is the party most probably responsible for the assassination of Raed Fares and Hamoud Jneed last...

U.N.-sponsored peace talks between Yemen's warring parties are expected to start next week in Sweden, Britain's envoy to Yemen said Thursday, as Western allies press for an end to the war that has pushed the country to the verge of starvation. The United Nations is trying to reconvene...

Russia, Turkey and Iran failed to make any tangible progress in setting up a Syrian constitutional committee at a meeting in the Kazakh capital Astana, the office of U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said in a statement Thursday. De Mistura, who announced his resignation last month, capped...

Nigerian chief of army staff on Wednesday confirmed 39 were killed by recent Boko Haram attacks in the country's northeast. Yusuf Buratai's remarks followed the calls of the local media -- which claimed over 100 soldiers had died -- for full disclosures on the incident. In a...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution Wednesday to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen, thwarting efforts by the Trump administration to convince lawmakers to vote against it. Senators voted 63-37 in favor of the resolution spearheaded by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Lebanese Army on Wednesday arrested  300 Syrian refugees in the border town of Arsal for not having the "Public Security Card" that allows them to be present on Lebanese territory, activists said.  The campaign took place in 25 camps were 20 refugee women...

The U.S. military says it has killed three al-Shabab extremists with an airstrike in central Somalia as it continues to attack a new base of operations for the al-Qaeda-linked fighters. The U.S. Africa Command statement says Tuesday's airstrike was carried out "in the vicinity of Quy...

Saudi Arabia will give Tunisia a $500 million loan at a favourable interest rate, a source told Reuters Wednesday, a day after a visit from the Saudi crown prince that drew Tunisian protests. Hundreds of Tunisians staged the first demonstrations in the Arab world against Saudi Arabia’s...

A Syrian refugee who had been stranded in a Malaysian airport for more than seven months landed in Vancouver on Monday, finally reaching the end of an ordeal that he had documented extensively on social media. Hassan al-Kontar, who was wanted in Syria for refusing to serve in the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Lebanese Public Prosecution in Baalbek city has accused Zaman al-Wasl reporter of inciting sectarian strife, following his latest report over 20 Syrian refugee women who were aborted due to polluted water in Arsal refugee camps. Abdul Hafiz a l-Houlani will...

While the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi goes against American values, Saudi Arabia is a force of stability in the Middle East, according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, Pompeo defended the U.S.-Saudi relationship by stressing...

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake that rattled Iran on Sunday has led to power outages in some parts of next-door Iraq, the Iraqi Electricity Ministry has reported. According to a Wednesday statement released by the ministry, local electricity production was affected after Sunday’s quake ruptured a...

A 16-year-old teenager will be charged with assault over a “recorded” attack on a Syrian refugee at a school in the U.K.'s Huddersfield town, British police said Wednesday. "Regarding the assault on a 15-year-old youth in Almondbury, which featured in a video posted on social media...

Israel’s Supreme Court has approved the ownership of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) of 522 dunums (1,000 square meters) of Palestinian land near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to Israeli media on Wednesday.  Israeli newspaper Hayom said court judges rejected an appeal...

Ivanka Trump defended her use of a private email account as she was moving into an adviser's position in her father's administration, saying that it cannot be compared to the flap over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email server and that "Lock her up!" doesn't apply to her....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, the former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells new torture memo. Behind the bars of the criminal Prisons of Bashar Assad, time stops, the minutes pass slowly and heavily and the days are all alike. The faces may differ, but the accumulated suffering...

Saudi Arabia pledged $50 million in aid Wednesday to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), which has been hit by the withdrawal of all U.S. funding. The announcement was made at a news conference in Riyadh by the director of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief...

U.N. war crimes investigators called on the Syria regime Wednesday to tell families what happened to their relatives who disappeared and provide the medical records and remains of those who died or were executed in custody. No progress can be made towards a lasting peace to end the...

Negotiators from Iran, Russia and Turkey met in Kazakhstan's capital Astana Wednesday, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said, for two days of talks aiming to preserve a fragile 10-week-old truce in northern Syria. Talks were underway between delegations from the three regional power-brokers...