A NASA spacecraft tasked with exploring the interior of Mars touched down on the planet's surface after a dangerous six-minute descent into the red colored atmosphere. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, the successful landing was followed by cheers and applaud by the...

The UN migration agency reported on Monday that Yemen had repatriated over 100 Ethiopian migrants who wanted to go back home. Saba al-Muallami, Yemen director for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), told Anadolu Agency that the agency rented an airplane for 102 migrants...

The head of Iran's judicial authority Monday warned restive workers against creating "disorder," while calling on the government to address their problems. Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani spoke amid efforts to resolve a weeks-long strike at a major sugar factory in western Iran and popular...

In the German consulate general in Erbil Syrian refugees are to SPIEGEL information against money with manipulated visas to have been equipped. But a consistent investigation of the grievances was omitted long. For Jassem M. money sometime does not matter anymore. For years, the Syrian...

Iraq's parliament will vote in its next session scheduled Tuesday on whether to approve the remaining eight candidates for Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's cabinet, the speaker's office said Monday. Lawmakers last month only confirmed 14 out of the 22 ministers Abdul Mahdi initially...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Finnish-Syrian man who won global media fame for distributing toys to orphans in Syria revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that the Finnish government has subjected him to a rigid  follow-up since 2016, putting him through countless investigations and research...

At least eight people were killed, 15 others wounded in a car bomb blast in Somalia capital Mogadishu, officials said. Hassan Gulled, a police officer in Mogadishu, told Anadolu Agency via phone that the car bomb targeted a crowded marketplace in Kawo Godey area in Wadajir neighborhood....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People’s suffering, their pain and their diseases, which lead straight to death is partly due to the behavior of doctors in regime-held areas.   There is an attempt to throw the responsibility away from them, but the real cause for all these people’s suffering is...

The U.S. is trying to head off a possible Turkish operation east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria by placing observation posts in the area, said an independent Turkish parliamentarian on Monday. "The main aim of the [U.S.] move is to block Turkey's possible operation in the...

Tunisian lawyers have filed a lawsuit to prevent a scheduled visit by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to Tunisia, according to a spokesman on Monday.  "We filed a request to open an investigation into crimes committed by bin Salman,” Nizar Boujalal, a spokesman for a group...

Millions of Pakistanis in July's general elections voted for change that Prime Minister Imran Khan had promised to bring about in his first 100 days. The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) six-pronged agenda included: transforming governance, strengthening the federation,...

Turkish police has been searching a villa in northwestern Yalova province on Monday over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The police and and the gendarmerie took security measures around the two storey villa in Samanli village of Termal district, according to police...

Israeli police forces rounded up 32 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out in East Jerusalem, according to a police statement on Monday.  In a statement, police said the individuals have been arrested for “suspicion of recruitment and serving in the Palestinian security...

Terror attack in northern Somalia killed a prominent Muslim cleric and his 17 followers, police said on Monday. Ahmet Awale, of Galkayo police, said that an armed attack targeted the residence of the religious leader -- which was also used as a Sufi shrine. According to initial...

Iranian authorities said Monday that the number of injured in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake in western Iran the previous night has risen to 716. No fatalities were reported from the temblor. According to Iran's state television, most of the injured were immediately released from...

Russian warplanes attacked rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks Sunday, as Syrian officials said more than 100 people were treated at hospitals for a suspected poison gas attack in the northern city of Aleppo that Damascus and Moscow blamed on rebels. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 60 U.S.-backed fighters were killed by Daesh (ISIS) and 30 more were taken captive in the past two days  as clashes intensified in eastern Deir Ezzor province , Amaq news agency said Sunday. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pressed to uproot...

Hundreds of female protesters took to the streets of the Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli Sunday to call for an end to violence against women. Some banging large drums and others ululating, they marched through the streets, an AFP correspondent said. "Underage marriage...

A magnitude-6.4 temblor rocked western Iran near its border with Iraq, state media reported on Sunday. The epicenter of the quake was western Kermanshah province, Iran's state television said. There were no immediate reports of causalities or damage. The shake was also...

The death toll from flash floods in northern Iraq has climbed to 18, according to Iraqi Health Ministry on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the number of wounded people has reached 180. Meanwhile, local media reported that as many as 300 homes have been badly damaged by...