Uganda is carrying out anti-Ebola vaccination targeting 2,000 health and frontline workers in five districts neighboring the Democratic Republic of Congo. They include Kabarole, Bunyangabo, Kasese, Ntoroko and Bundibugyo. Uganda’s Ministry of Health estimates that every week over 20,000...

The number of Palestinians martyred increased to four Tuesday amid renewed Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, with strikes ongoing throughout the enclave. A Palestinian injured during an Israeli attack on the town of Rafah, south of Gaza, died, according to a statement by Palestinian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group is on alert amid concerns of imminent offensive on northern Idlib province following violations for the Russian -brokered buffer zone agreement, sources said. All the formations and units of Tharir al-Shall, an alliance led by Syria's former...

Israeli fighter jets on Monday evening struck positions across the blockaded Gaza Strip in response to the launch of scores of rockets from Gaza into southern Israel, according to the Israeli army. Along with the airstrikes, Israeli artillery units shelled positions across the Hamas-run...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent Syrian photojournalist, Amer al-Mawhebani, known as Amer al-Shami, was honoured on Monday by a French Varenne foundation for his work and courage. The Varenne Foundation presented him with its grand prize in the photojournalism category for his picture of a...

Iran has continued to implement the main nuclear restrictions set by its 2015 deal with major powers even as the United States reimposed sanctions against Tehran, a U.N. atomic watchdog report showed Monday. Iran has kept its stock of low-enriched uranium as well as the level to which...

At least three Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip, according to health officials, in the latest escalation less than 24 hours after a deadly covert Israeli operation in the besieged enclave. The air strikes on Monday followed a barrage of rocket fire...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg warned Europe against undermining transatlantic ties, following a defence spat between US President Donald Trump and French leader Emmanuel Macron. Trump had tweeted on Friday that Macron's call for a "real European army" was "insulting". The US leader's criticism...

Almost 2,000 minibus taxi drivers and conductors as well as passengers were arrested in Kenya on Monday, authorities said, as police began enforcing long-ignored road safety rules. The crackdown against the minibus taxis, known as "matatus", and buses resulted in long queues and unusually...

ber 2 ISTANBUL (AFP) -  Turkey on Monday lashed out at "unacceptable" comments by the French foreign minister accusing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of playing a "political game" over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey had shared recordings linked to...

Gaza-based political experts say Israel’s brazen incursion into Gaza on Sunday was meant to "disrupt and confuse" Palestinian resistance groups, especially Hamas, which has governed the strip since 2007. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least seven Palestinians, including a Hamas...

Jordanian rescuers on Monday found the body of a five-year-old girl killed in flash floods that have left a total of 13 people dead in the kingdom, the civil defense said. On Friday torrential rains swept the south of the country, forcing nearly 4,000 tourists to flee the famed desert...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian prisoners in Hama central prison on hunger strike against arbitrary death sentences by the regime's Terror Court, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The detainees in all sections and wings have decided to participate in the strike in order to push the regime to...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Residents of twenty three villages in northeastern Hasaka province are under health risks due to the spread of the primitive oil-burning machines to produce fuel. Dozen of children have been suffering from hypersensitivity and shortness of breath in the...

Iran's armed forces will protect Iranian oil tankers against any threats, an Iranian military official said on Monday, after the United States said the ships were a "floating liability" and warned ports operators not to allow them to dock. "Iran's armed forces ... are prepared today as...

Turkey's state-run news agency says the country's coast guard has launched a search-and-rescue mission to locate 10 migrants who are reported missing after their boat sank in the Aegean Sea. Anadolu Agency says the boat went down on Monday off the coast of Dikili, in Izmir province,...

Oil producing countries should cut output by one million barrels per day to re-balance the market, Saudi Arabia's energy minister said Monday, following a drop in crude prices. "The technical analysis we reviewed yesterday shows that we need a reduction approaching one million bpd to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Aida al-Haj Yousif, the former detainee by the Syrian regime, tells how a Moroccan belly dancer was highly welcomed in the prison. She was arrested in the town of Sayyidah Zaynab, southern Damascus, over links with Shiite militants who were entertaining themselves during...

Near the recently reopened border with Jordan, former Syrian rebel fighter Bahaa al-Masri sells date-filled pastries and sesame biscuits to Jordanians flocking across the frontier to snap up bargains. Syrian regime forces retook control of the Nassib border crossing from rebels in July,...

It is “unacceptable” that the full circumstances behind Jamal Khashoggi's murder still remain unclear, the British foreign secretary said. Speaking ahead of his visit to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Jeremy Hunt urged Saudi officials for a full co-operation with Turkey to...