(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of Syrian refugees are expected to return to their home country Thursday as part of the return trips being organized by Lebanese General Security, The Daily Star reported. About 55,000 Syrian refugees had returned since July, according to the Lebanese Caretaker...

Dozens of migrants have barricaded themselves in a container ship in the Libyan port city of Misrata for the past five days, after being picked up at sea, and refuse to disembark, saying Libya is too dangerous for them. Loaded with cars, the ship Nivin was already bound for Misrata when...

A senior Turkish official proposed Wednesday that suspects in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi be tried in a Turkish court observed by international human rights groups. Turkish authorities have prepared an extradition request for 18 suspects detained in Saudi Arabia,...

The death toll in wildfires in the state of California rose to 50, officials said Tuesday. The Camp Fire surpassed state records, becoming the most deadly and most destructive fire the state has ever seen. It has burned 130,000 acres, at least 8,800 structures and killed 48...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday called for creating a European Union army, stressing that Europeans can no longer merely rely on the U.S. for their security. “We Europeans now have to really take our faith fully into our own hands if we want to defend our union,” Merkel said...

The prime minister of China said Tuesday there are no winners in a trade war with the U.S. "There is no winner in the trade war," Li Keqiang said at the 33rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Singapore where he addressed the trade war, the South China Sea dispute...

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri on Tuesday blamed Hezbollah for continued delays in the formation of the country’s next government. “Hezbollah is responsible for what Lebanon is going through,” Hariri said at a Tuesday press conference. Hezbollah chief Hassan...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 35 people, including women and children, have been killed by US-led coalition airstrikes on Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, Daesh news agency said Tuesday. Amaq reported that the 25 airstrikes on the villages of al-Sha’fah and al-Kamsha near the Iraqi...

At least six people were wounded in a massive explosion in the regime-controlled city of Homs, state news agency SANA and activists reported Tuesday. "Six civilians were injured by a bomb explosion inside a bus in ... the al-Zahra neighborhood," SANA quoted the head of the Homs police...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Families of Hama prison detainees have protested in front of the notorious prison as their sons began hunger strike against arbitrary death sentences by the regime's Terror Court, activists said Tuesday. The sit-in that organized by mothers and wives of the detainees...

A senior Israeli official on Tuesday said that Israel’s defense establishment broadly supported the notion of reaching a ceasefire with Palestinian resistance factions in Gaza, Israeli media reported Tuesday.   “The entire [Israeli] defense establishment… agrees on the need to halt...

Kuwait and Bolivia requested an urgent meeting of UN Security Council to discuss the heightened violence in Gaza, according to diplomatic sources. The Security Council is expected to discuss the matter behind-closed doors on Tuesday. The request comes amid a ceasefire between...

The European Union and Britain have agreed a draft text of a Brexit withdrawal agreement and Prime Minister Theresa May will present it to her senior ministers Wednesday, after more than a year of tortuous negotiations. While officials choreograph the first withdrawal of a sovereign...

At this year's Baghdad International Fair, Iranian businessmen displayed thick, colorful Persian rugs to impressed onlookers while others showcased the latest in Iranian manufacturing in power generators and industrial tools. For Iranian companies, the annual Baghdad International Fair...

  Three people were killed Tuesday and three others injured when a zinc and lead mine collapsed in northeastern Morocco, authorities said, in a region shaken by protests over similar accidents. The accident occurred near the impoverished former mining town of Jerada a week after two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Lebanese Caretaker Minister of State for Refugee Affairs Mouin Merehbi said Tuesday that the Syrian regime must stop killing, detaining and conscripting returning Syrians refugees to encourage others to return from Lebanon, in a televised conference, according to...

Two coalition airstrikes hit the main entrance to the rebel-held port of Hodeida but the docks were still operating normally Tuesday, the port's deputy director told AFP. The vital docks, through which 80 percent of Yemen's commercial imports and nearly all U.N. supervised humanitarian...

A flurry of visits by senior Israeli officials to Arab Gulf states reflects a rush by Gulf countries to “befriend” with Israel, analysts believe.  “The peace rail link between Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf countries is an economic normalization at the expense of the...

Israel is making the visa process difficult in order to reduce the number of Turkish tourists visiting Jerusalem, according to Turkish tour operators. Mehmet Esmer, the owner of Turkish-based tour company Mihmandar, said on Tuesday that Israel’s Interior Ministry has aggravated the visa...

Global energy demand is predicted to grow by more than a quarter between 2017 and 2040, according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) World Energy Outlook 2018 on Tuesday. The IEA's report showed that population growth with an extra 1.7 billion people mostly in the urban areas of...