Warring factions in Yemen have confirmed they will attend peace talks in Sweden, UN Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths said Friday. "This is a crucial moment for Yemen. I have received firm assurances from the leadership of the Yemeni parties," said Griffiths at a UN Security...

The special envoy of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an 8-nation Horn of Africa bloc, has warned that Al-Shabaab continues to pose a threat to peace in Somalia. “This is the first time in 30 years that Somalia has been registering progress in institutional...

 A funeral prayer in absentia for slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was held in Istanbul's Fatih Mosque on Friday.  The ceremony was widely attended by activists and political figures calling for unity and justice for the journalist. Khashoggi, a frequent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad has  directed calls for reserve military service in the province of Latakia. These calls for recruitment included a large number of people from Syrian areas who signed agreements of reconciliation. These requests coincided with large media campaigns...

At least two people were killed and several others injured in a bomb explosion in southern port city of Karachi on late Friday, police said. Initial investigations suggested that the bomb was planted underneath a handcart in a makeshift market in the eastern outskirt of Karachi, Irfan...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 23 regime troops were killed and wounded Friday in a surprise attack by rebels near the planned buffer zone in the northwestern province of Hama. The attack targeted three checkpoints for regime army forces near the village of Forrow in the Ghap Plain in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite fragile buffer zone deal and mounting skirmishes, thousands of people came out to the streets of rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces to rally against the Syria regime and the key ally Russia.   Demonstrators held up the three-star flag of the...

Beleaguered at home, belittled abroad, Emmanuel Macron of France and Germany's Angela Merkel will use a Berlin meeting on Sunday to bolster their alliance as champions of a united Europe fraught with resurgent nationalism. After weeks of stalemate on issues such as eurozone reforms and...

Dozens of migrants and refugees aboard a merchant vessel at a Libyan port are refusing to disembark for fear of "detention and torture", rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Friday. It said in a report that the group of at least 79 refugees and migrants, including several...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- With the start of winter and the crushing storm rains in the eastern province of Raqqa, emerged the urgent need for large bridges on the Euphrates River and its tributaries along with the small bridges on the irrigation channels and valleys of Sailiya. ...

The Russian military says nearly 270,000 Syrian refugees have returned home to their country in recent months. Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev of the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters Friday that nearly 6,000 people returned to Syria in the last week alone, according to data collected by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The considerable increase in the phenomenon of homelessness in the public gardens and streets of the city of Latakia was concurrent with the decrease in the exchange rate of the Syrian Pound since the end of 2011, which equally coincided with the acceleration of the...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen the testing of a "newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon", Pyongyang's state media reported Friday, a move seen by analysts as more of a political message than a serious provocation. It marked the first official report of a weapons test...

Iraq has restarted exports of Kirkuk oil, interrupted more than a year ago amid a standoff between the central government in Baghdad and Kurdistan's semi-autonomous region, industry sources said on Friday. The development is a win for the U.S. government which has been putting pressure...

Turkey has more evidence contradicting the Saudi version of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi including a second audio recording, a Turkish newspaper reported on Friday. The second voice recording -- said to be 15 minutes -- clearly reveals that the murder of the Washington Post...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 18 civilians, including 13 children and 4 women, have been killed by US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Daesh news agency said Thursday. Amaq reported that the US-led airstrikes on the villages of Baghouz and al-Sousa...

Inside the machine-crammed Mouhtarides factory near the Greek-Turkish border, Ioanna Pistola deftly spins a silk thread in a loom, ignoring the deafening noise around her. “I’ve been working in this hall for 20 years,” the middle-aged weaver shouts above the din. The dormant, isolated...

The Trump administration is exploring possible ways to remove U.S.-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, a foe of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to convince Turkey to ease pressure on Saudi Arabia over the killing of a Saudi journalist, NBC News reported Thursday. NBC, citing...

Over a thousand Israelis rallied in Tel Aviv on Thursday to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a cease-fire deal with Gaza-based Palestinian factions. According to Israeli media, around 1,500 protesters denounced Netanyahu’s decision to approve the Gaza...

The U.S. on Thursday sanctioned 17 people tied to the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, including the Saudi Consul General in Istanbul Mohammad al-Otaibi.  Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi diplomatic facility shortly after he entered the consulate Oct. 2. ...