Education institutions, roads and markets reopened on Saturday across the country after the government reached an agreement with religious groups last night, an official said. "The protest has been called off after government accepted our demands and signed an agreement with our party"...

State TV says Iran has inaugurated the production line of its domestically produced fighter jet a day after President Donald Trump’s administration announced the reimposition of remaining U.S. sanctions on Tehran to ramp up economic pressure on the Islamic Republic. Defense Minister...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese General Security announced in a statement Friday that 87,670 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country since July, The Daily Star reported.  Dozens of Syrian refugees on Thursday began to return to Syria after gathering in different areas, in the...

By Recep Tayyip Erdogan The story is all too familiar: Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and a family man, entered Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 for marriage formalities. No one – not even his fiancee, who was waiting outside the compound — has ever seen him again....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least five Russian soldiers were killed Friday in landmine explosion in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl.  The explosion that rocked a joint base for regime army and the key ally has also left casualties from pro-regime militia,...

A senior Palestinian official Friday condemned Brazilian far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s announcement that he would move his country’s Israel embassy to occupied Jerusalem. The move announced Thursday comes six months after the United States controversially transferred its embassy,...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said the order for journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing came from the top levels of the Saudi government. In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, Erdogan said Turkey knows the perpetrators are among the 18 suspects detained...

A recent move by the U.S. to lift sanctions on two Turkish ministers is an important step for normalizing strained ties between the two countries, Turkey's ruling party spokesman said. Speaking after a Justice and Development (AK) Party meeting, Omer Celik said the U.S. decision to lift...

The U.S. announced Friday it is reimposing all sanctions lifted under a 2015 nuclear pact world powers struck with Iran.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made the announcement during a telephone call with reporters.  The new wave of...

Islamist militants Friday ambushed a bus carrying Christian pilgrims on their way to a remote desert monastery south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, killing at least seven and wounding 12, the Interior Ministry said. Coptic Orthodox Church spokesman Bouls Halim said the death toll in...

The United States said Friday it will temporarily allow eight jurisdictions to keep importing Iranian oil when U.S. sanctions come back into force Monday, sparing them for now from the threat of U.S. economic penalties. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who announced the decision in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A tribal leader was assassinated by Daesh militant in eastern Raqqa city over links with Kurdish militias, local activists said Friday. Sheikh Bashir Faisal al-Huwaidi, one of al-Afa’adleh tribe leaders, was killed by a silenced pistol early morning....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite bombing, thousands of people came out to the streets of rebel-held areas in Idlib and Aleppo provinces to rally against the Assad regime.   Demonstrators held up the three-star flag of the Syrian revolution and placards recalling the first days of the Syrian...

At least ten people were killed by Syrian regime shelling of the rebel-held Idlib province on Friday, according to a monitoring group — the highest daily toll since a Russian-Turkish demilitarization zone was set up around the region. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the...

Greek authorities say they have broken a criminal organization that smuggled migrants from Greece to Italy by yacht, and have arrested eight suspected members. A coast guard statement says the ring had been about to smuggle 119 people to Italy on the yacht when they were arrested early...

The Arab coalition fighting in Yemen said it attacked Sanaa International Airport and an adjoining airbase being used by Houthi insurgents, as the two warring sides also clashed further west in the country's main port city. The violence broke out days after renewed U.S. calls for a...

Iran said Friday that a report that eight countries had been granted waivers to U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil showed that Iran's crude was needed and could not be withdrawn from the market. "The waivers granted to these eight countries shows that the market needs Iran's oil and it cannot be...

An Israeli official on Friday called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul "despicable" but said that cementing ties with Gulf states in the struggle against Iran was Israel's overriding concern. In his remarks to radio station 102 FM, Energy...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Black Light film for Syrian director Ward al-Demashqi tries to shed the light on the Syrians' pains, hopes and exhausted dreams. The 20-minute film put the monitor on media machine and its role in igniting conflicts and fueling its fire, and how the image can divert...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- The local council in the northern village of al-Ghadafa has appealed via Zaman TV to the humanitarian organizations to help the displaced amid lack of aid and funds. About 1200 families live in al-Qadafa, including 700 families live in random primitive camps east of...