The UN rights chief called Tuesday for "international experts" to help investigate the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and called on Riyadh to reveal the whereabouts of his body. "For an investigation to be carried out free of any appearance of political...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists on Tuesday have mourned Mohamed al-Nuaimi, the prominent relief worker and director of the Human Association for Refugee Rights, who died of a heart attack in Turkey. Al-Nuaimi devoted his all efforts to provide relief to those in need in the...

Turkey has completed preparations for a new operation in northern Syria to "destroy" a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia that Ankara considers a terrorist group, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) holds territory east of the Euphrates...

U.S. sanctions against Iran will have "severe consequences" for the world order, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Tuesday, days before new sanctions on Tehran's oil exports take effect. Washington reintroduced sanctions against Iran's currency trade, metals and auto...

Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have arrived in eastern Syria to help a U.S.-backed alliance fight Daesh (ISIS) after a major setback last week, an activist group said Tuesday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by the U.S.-led coalition, launched an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad soldiers are not only exercising their criminality against the Syrian people for over seven years, but it has even extended to innocent animals, a gruesome video showed. One of the army troops inside his military base has burned a dog alive.  The...

The Turkish fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called on U.S. President Donald Trump and other leaders to ensure that his death in Istanbul is not covered up, while Saudi Arabia’s top prosecutor on Tuesday visited the Saudi Consulate where officials from his government killed the...

Three Shiite Muslim pilgrims were killed by a roadside bomb as they walked to a holy site near the northeastern Iraqi city of Khanaqin Tuesday, police said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the three women. But Daesh (ISIS) militants are active in the area...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Funding of water supplies in the Syrian refugee camps in Latakia province will be suspended by the beginning of November, such a decision will cause catastrophic suffering for 40,000 displaced near the Turkish border, camps principals said. Abdul Jabbar Khalil,...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV meets the eighty-year-old Mohamed El-Nesr who never missed any peaceful demonstration in his northern town of Khan Sheikhoun since the revolution erupted in 2011. The old man is very proud of his family for its sacrifices where many have been killed and forcibly...

 Hundreds of Druze Arabs, some carrying Syrian flags, gathered outside the gates of a polling station on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Tuesday, trying to block their townspeople from voting in municipal elections. Israeli police wearing helmets and carrying tear gas launchers...

Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor held a second round of talks with Turkish officials Tuesday and visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed four weeks ago. Khashoggi's killing has escalated into a crisis for the world's top oil exporter, which...

Turkey is doing its best to fulfill difficult obligations on establishing a demilitarized zone in Idlib, and Russia does not see a threat the agreement would fail, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. "We don't see a threat so far... Unfortunately, not everything is going as it...

Israel has carried out attacks in Syria since the accidental shooting down of a Russian surveillance plane last month, a senior Israeli official said Monday. The Sept. 17 downing by Syrian anti-aircraft fire, after Israeli jets attacked a suspected Iranian arms shipment to Syria, caused...

Pakistan released two key Afghan Taliban leaders last week reportedly at Washington’s request in an apparent attempt to revive a stalled peace process. The development follows a meeting earlier this month between U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Pakistani and...

The U.S. military is planning to deploy 5,000 troops to the southwestern border as a migrant caravan makes its way north, according to multiple reports published Monday. The figure would be larger than the amount of U.S. troops in Syria and would be more than half the number of troops...

Istanbul Airport, the “world's new hub,” officially opened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic. Speaking at the massive new airport’s inauguration ceremony, President Erdogan said it would be a model to the...

According to Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih, no one has any idea how much oil Iran will be able to export after new U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic kick in on Nov. 4. But more precisely, Iran’s shipment figures crucial to oil markets are already a mystery. Iran’s oil...

On April 22, 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium, choking to death some 5,000 French soldiers and heralding a new type of terror on the Western Front. World War I saw the first widespread combat use of modern chemical weapons, starting with the 168 tons...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese army on Monday raided Syrian refugee camps in the border town of Arsal, in a major security campaign tracking people claimed they have links with the jihadist groups, activists said. At least 15 camps in the Arnab Valley were raided where about 10,000...