A Palestinian man shot in clashes with Israeli forces in October has died of his wounds, the health ministry in the occupied West Bank said Saturday. Mohammad Shreyteh, 28, had been shot in the head during the clashes that took place on Oct. 26 in the West Bank. At the time,...

Abu Mohammed thought he could finally go home after jihadists were expelled from his Damascus suburb, but he says Syrian authorities have blocked his return by wrongly classifying his dwelling as unfit to live in. In May, regime forces turfed the Islamic State group out of a chunk of...

Militants have killed at least eight Syrian regime troops near a planned buffer zone around the country's last major rebel bastion, an activist group said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack took place late Friday in the north of Hama province near the...

(Zaman al Wasl)- Pro-regime activists called on army officials  to reveal the fate of 10,000 army troops who disappeared or detained by rebel factions throughout Syria during the almost eight-year-ol war.   The call followed the liberation of 19 women and children held by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The suffering of people in rebel-held areas in northern Syria has increased due to the recent rise in fuel prices, which put low income people in front of hard choices, in light of the low temperatures and the flash floods which unleashed by heavy rains. Mohammed Ba’aj,...

Airstrikes by Turkish warplanes have "neutralized" 15 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in northern Iraq, the military said on Twitter Saturday, destroying hideouts and armories belonging to the group. The Turkish army uses the phrase to neutralize when it has killed, captured or...

Pro-government forces fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have taken the main hospital in the strategic Red Sea port city of Hodeida, government military officials said Saturday. The May 22 Hospital lies in the east of the rebel-held city, a key aid conduit that is the target of...

Libya's key political players are set to meet global leaders in Italy next week, in the latest bid by major powers to kick-start a long-stalled political process and trigger elections. A summit in Paris in May had seen the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA) and eastern...

Official media reports say that the death toll from flash floods unleashed by heavy rains in Jordan has risen to 11, and that searches for missing people continue. Saturday's reports came a day after floods struck in several areas of Jordan, including Petra, an ancient trading hub...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday that U.S. sanctions announced last week have had no effect on Iran's economy, because Washington had already practically reimposed them earlier. "The sanctions have had no impact on our economy, because America had already used all the...

Dissident Chinese author Ma Jian hit out at threats to freedom of speech Saturday saying it was the "basis of civilisation" after a struggle to find a venue to host his talks at Hong Kong's literary festival. The venue battle fuelled growing concerns that semi-autonomous Hong Kong's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition air strikes killed 26 civilians including 14 children Friday in a holdout of the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said. "Twenty-six IS family members including 14 children and 9 women were killed in coalition air...

Russian foreign minister on Friday said he was "unpleasantly surprised" by Austria's recent arrest of a suspect in espionage in favour of Russia. Austria had to contact Russia officially for their concerns regarding possible threats to its national security, Sergey Lavrov said at a news...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Friday denying migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally the ability to seek asylum in America. The move is in reaction to the caravans of migrants headed north to the southern border of the U.S., who planned to seek asylum once...

An Istanbul conference under the aegis of Nobel laureate Tawakkol Karman Friday called for concrete measures to end the war in her native Yemen and an international court to judge those charged with crimes during the conflict. The conference, which was organized by Karman's foundation,...

The Northern Irish party that props up Prime Minister Theresa May's government Friday cast her Brexit negotiation as a betrayal and cautioned it could not support a deal that divided the United Kingdom. The warning underscores the travails that May faces in getting any Brexit divorce...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of people on Friday came out to the streets of rebel-held areas in Idlib, Hama and Aleppo provinces to rally against the Syrian regime and to denounce the fragile buffer zone deal.   Demonstrators held up the three-star flag of the Syrian revolution and...

The second round of U.S. sanctions targeting Iran’s energy sector -- the country's main source of income -- came into force this week, which could have the effect of reducing Iran's crude oil exports. Some observers fear the move could lead to rising living costs and push a significant...

Daesh (ISIS) militants shot and killed two children during an operation to liberate a group of hostages from southern Syria that were being held by the extremist group since July, a father and activists said Friday. Nashaat Abu Ammar, a resident of Swaida whose wife, two sons and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Friday have thwarted regime’s surprise attack on the northern countryside of Hama province, local reporter said. The regime forces pushed into the stronghold of Jaish al-Izaa near the town of al-Latameh.  The overnight clashes left 23...