A high-ranking Houthi official has called for rebels to stop firing rockets and using attack drones in the conflict in Yemen, as a UN envoy prepares to travel to the country to prepare peace talks. Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, head of the Higher Revolutionary Committee and an influential...

Russia, Turkey and Iran will hold the next round of talks on Syria on Nov. 28-29 in Kazakhstan, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said Monday. Delegations from the Damascus government and the Syrian rebels are also set to attend, Abdrakhmanov told reporters....

Iran is still hopeful that its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers can be saved despite the withdrawal of the United States, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday. "There are some ambiguities on implementation of the EU's mechanism to protect trade with Iran from America's sanctions....

Turkey's coast guard says it rescued 40 migrants stuck on an island after they attempted the crossing to Greece. In a statement Monday, the coast guard said it dispatched two helicopters and one boat following a rescue request call by a migrant. Aerial footage showed groups of people on...

Dozens of Palestinians suffered a temporary asphyxiation from teargas canisters fired by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to a local Palestinian official. Israeli forces used teargas bombs and rubber bullets to disperse Palestinians, who gathered to prevent...

Turkish Coast Guard on Monday began an operation to rescue 40 irregular migrants stranded in Yumurta island in Aegean sea, sources said. At least 10 of the migrants were rescued during the operation in northern Aegean, off the coast of Turkey’s Balikesir, said the sources, who asked not to...

Clashes on Sunday between Turkish-backed rebel factions vying for influence in the northern Syrian town of Afrin left 25 fighters dead, a war monitor said. Turkish troops and allied rebel groups seized the Afrin region from Kurdish forces in March after a two-month air and ground offensive....

Iraqi officials said five people were killed in a car bomb blast in the city of Tikrit Sunday, the latest security breach to rattle the country in recent weeks. Sixteen others were wounded in the blast that set fires on both sides of a commercial street in the heart of the city, according to...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he would take on the defense minister portfolio, rejecting calls to dissolve his government even as early elections appeared increasingly likely. Netanyahu said heading to elections now, amid repeated violent confrontations...

Flash floods and landslides caused by a powerful typhoon have killed at least 12 people in central Vietnam, according to local media reports on Sunday. Inundating rainfall and landslide have battered the central Khanh Hoa province in the last few days since Typhoon Toraji, a tropical...

The Palestinian government on Sunday decried incursions by Israeli settlers and government ministers into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. In a statement, government spokesman Youssef al-Mahmoud described the incursions as “part of an Israeli scheme to inflame the...

Saudi King Salman welcomed Iraq's new President Barham Saleh Sunday on his first official visit to the kingdom, amid a warming of ties between the Arab neighbors after years of strain. The king hosted a lunch and "discussed regional developments" with Saleh, the official Saudi Press...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he has been fully briefed on an audio recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder but does not want to listen to it himself. "Because it's a suffering tape. It's a terrible tape," he said in an interview with "Fox News Sunday" that was conducted...

Jordan's Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz said Sunday the kingdom will pay a heavy price if Parliament fails to approve new IMF-backed tax legislation. Razzaz told deputies who were debating the legislation that failure to approve the bill would mean the kingdom would have to pay even...

Egyptian authorities have rounded up at least 40 rights workers, activists and lawyers since late October and detained them in "undisclosed locations," Human Rights Watch said Sunday. "Many of those arrested were people who provided humanitarian and legal support to families of...

President Donald Trump said Saturday he was not considering extraditing a U.S.-based Muslim cleric to Turkey as part of an effort to ease pressure on Saudi Arabia. "No, it's not under consideration," Trump told reporters when asked about potential extradition of Fethullah Gulen, who is...

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, both limping in the polls, are looking for common approaches to Donald Trump and fixing the flaws in the euro currency. Macron speaks in the German parliament Sunday on an annual day of remembrance for victims of war...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said Sunday the next seven days in the Brexit process would be critical for the country's future. "These next seven days are going to be critical, they are about the future of this country," May told Sky News.

The U.S.-led anti-militant coalition hit back Sunday at reports its airstrikes on a Daesh (ISIS) holdout in eastern Syria had killed civilians, appearing to blame their deaths on regime forces. More than seven years into the country's civil war, multiple offensives have whittled down...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As Turkey prepares for new offensive to uproot Kurdish militias near the border, the powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) is still trying to mobilize the Arab tribes to join the US-led militias in northeastern province of Hasaka. Most of the key Tribal figures...