A Yemeni hospital official says the death toll from an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition near the flash-point Red Sea port of Hudaida has climbed to 19. The director of the Bayt el-Faqih Hospital, Abdullah Shahawi, says all the victims are civilians. The airstrike, which hit an...

Germany has warned citizens visiting Turkey to be extra cautious about their social media feeds in response to a spate of cases of Germans arrested for online criticism of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. The updated travel advice, published by the Foreign Ministry...

Atrocities tantamount to genocide against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority continue to take place, the chair of the UN's fact-finding mission in that country said Wednesday. Marzuki Darusman told reporters at the UN's New York headquarters that Myanmar officials are destined to...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that threats of political violence have no place in the United States, promising a full investigation into suspicious packages that were mailed to prominent Democrats and others. "The full weight of our government is being deployed to conduct...

Syrian regime media and a war monitor say an airstrike on a pocket held by Daesh (ISIS) in the country's east has killed several people. The State-run news agency SANA said Wednesday's airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition killed several people without giving a breakdown. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime president Bashar al-Assad has appointed two generals to head most important branches in the Military Intelligence, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Brigadier General Asif al-Deker was appointed as the head of the Branch of Officers Affairs (293), and Major...

At least 10 people were killed Wednesday in an air strike that hit a group of farmers in a vegetable market in Yemen's Hodeidah province, medical workers and residents said. A Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen’s war in 2015 has conducted frequent air strikes targeting the...

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman promised Wednesday that the killers of Jamal Khashoggi would be brought to justice, in his first public comments since the journalist's murder sparked international condemnation. Prince Mohammad told a major investment conference in Riyadh...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia would not have murdered prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi without American protection, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Saudi authorities staged the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Liberation Front (NLF) and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group have reached an agreement on Wednesday to end the infighting in northern Idlib province. According to the handwritten agreement, the key armed groups agreed to halt clashes which erupted on...

 Outgoing UN envoy Staffan de Mistura met with Syria's top diplomat in Damascus on Wednesday, the UN and state media said, to try to make progress on a post-war constitution. De Mistura announced last week he would step down at the end of November, but said he would first travel to...

The only European interest is to reveal all the details of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the EU Council president said on Wednesday. Addressing the European Parliament’s plenary session in the eastern French city of Strasbourg, Donald Tusk said the killing of Khashoggi...

Israel allowed the entry of fuel shipments, including Qatar-funded fuel, into the blockaded Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to a Palestinian official. “Qatar-funded fuel trucks began to enter Gaza today,” the official, who works on the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At a time when government agencies were honoring and hailing the medical achievements of the Mouwasat hospital in Damascus for carrying a successful operation or holding a medical conference, a number of accusations against the hospital came to the fore.  The last...

The two houses of the Ethiopian parliament would convene their second special meeting on Thursday to decide on the resignation submitted by President Mulatu Teshome Wirtu. According to local broadcaster FANA, the House of Peoples’ Representatives and the House of the Federation would...

Jordanian authorities have arrested a man suspected in the killing of a former intelligence official this week, according to the country’s public security directorate. A Hibis al-Hanayneh, a former official in the Jordanian intelligence service, was shot dead outside his home in Amman...

Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday rejected a secret vote in parliament on the new cabinet lineup. “The people want to reform the system through an honest government with independent technocrats supervised by the prime minister-designate without pressure from...

Israeli forces rounded up 16 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military on Wednesday. The individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army said in a statement, without elaborating on the...

Japan's government says it has received information that a man believed to be a Japanese freelance journalist captured three years ago in war-torn Syria has been freed and is now in Turkey.  Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a hastily arranged news conference late on...

The U.S. is revoking the visas of some Saudi officials who have been implicated in the slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday. The officials work for a variety of Saudi offices, including the royal court, the intelligence...