Nearly 300 Rohingya Muslims, who attempted to flee Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state, were temporarily detained and returned to refugee camps this month, according to local media and local government officials. A boat carrying 93 Rohingya Muslims, who left camps in Rakhine state’s capital...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two prominent female activists who were detained by the Air Force intelligence in 2011 have been confirmed dead, according to the Civil Registry department in the town of Douma, northeast of Damascus. Faten Rajab, Physics Scientist, was arrested in 2011 for he...

This is the sickening moment a Syrian schoolboy is dragged to the floor by his neck, pinned down by his throat and 'waterboarded'. The violent video appears to involve pupils at Almondbury Community School and has been shared widely on social media. Jamal and his family escaped a...

The U.N. children’s fund warned Tuesday that a funding gap and the start of winter could leave nearly 1 million children “out in the cold” in the Middle East and North Africa. “Years of conflict, displacement and unemployment have reduced families’ financial resources to almost nothing. Staying...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime intelligence launched a wide-scale arrest campaign in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, trucking former rebel fighters despite reconciliation deals reached last April, local activists said Tuesday. The notorious Air Force Intelligence has arrested former...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- One of the most annoying campaigns against the Saudi Crown Prince's visit to Tunisia was led by the Tunisian journalists’ syndicate which mounted on its wall a vast banner depicting the prince holding a chainsaw, representing the gruesome dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi. ...

The Pentagon cautioned Russia Tuesday not to tamper with the site of an alleged gas attack in Syria's Aleppo and allow investigators to inspect the site. The global chemical weapons agency, known as the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), has said it will...

Russia has sharply increased its military presence on the border with Ukraine, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on television Tuesday, warning of the threat of "full-scale war." "The number of [Russian] tanks at bases located along our border has tripled," Poroshenko said in an...

The United States has spoken with Israel about possibly presenting a long-awaited Middle East peace plan at the start of next year, which could avoid interfering with the country's election, Israel's U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman arrived in Tunis Tuesday as part of his first regional tour since the murdering of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The prince was welcomed by Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi when he arrived at the airport in Tunis from Cairo, the presidency...

A British MP Tuesday claimed Facebook knew about potentially malicious Russian activity in 2014, long before such activity becomes public, during a parliamentary hearing where international lawmakers grilled the company. Damian Collins, head of a parliamentary inquiry into fake news and...

Iran's nuclear chief said Tuesday he was warning the European Union's top diplomat that Tehran's patience was running out on the bloc's pledges to keep up oil trade despite U.S. sanctions. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said the Islamic Republic could...

 A local official in Raqqa says more than 500 bodies have so far been exhumed from one of the largest mass graves discovered near the Syrian city, once the capital Daesh’s (ISIS) self-styled caliphate. Raqqa was liberated in a U.S.-backed campaign that ended more than a year ago,...

Operations at Yemen's lifeline port of Hodeida have nearly halved in two weeks, with shipping companies deterred by insecurity in the flashpoint Houthi-held city, the U.N.'s World Food Program said Tuesday. As 70 percent of imports come in through the vital Hodeida port, a drop in the...

Prominent Shia cleric and politician Muqtada al-Sadr, the leader of Iraq’s Sairoon movement, has called on Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi to finalize his cabinet lineup.  In a Tuesday statement released on social media, al-Sadr said Iraq should not be “governed from overseas” and...

The murder of Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi last month has soured the world’s politicians on the once-feted Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Private capital turned against him long before that. Ever since dozens of royals and business chiefs were detained in November 2017 as part of...

Tunisians took to the streets on Monday in protest of the planned visit of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince to their country. As part of his first overseas tour since the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Mohammad bin Salman arrived in Egypt on...

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To hear President Donald Trump tell it, he was made for a moment like this: A high-stakes face-off. A ticking clock. A cagey adversary. The man who calls himself a supreme dealmaker will have the opportunity this week to put himself to the test. The question is whether he can defuse a...

The United States on Monday called Russia's move to seize three Ukrainian vessels in the Sea of Azov near Crimea a "violation of international law." On Sunday, Russia said the vessels had ignored calls to stop, sparking military action, as they were relocating from Odessa to the Port of...