Turkish investigators searched the Saudi consulate in Istanbul overnight as part of a probe into Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance, while U.S. President Donald Trump said he did not want to abandon his Saudi ally over the missing journalist. The crime scene team left the Saudi consulate...

The United Nations envoy for Syria announced on Wednesday he will step down at the end of November after more than four years in the key post as UN efforts to end the seven-year war show no sign of a breakthrough. "I will myself be moving on as of the last week of November," Staffan de...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Family of Owaish Buzzan has appealed to the powerful Kurdish PYD militia to release the16-year-old year daughter who fell a victim for forced recruitment by the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces. Buzzan, like thousands of teenagers and children, was forcibly...

Washington on Wednesday again declined to call China a currency manipulator but said the yuan's fall and Beijing's exchange practices were of "particular concern." In putting Beijing and five other US trading partners on notice, the US Treasury once more refrained from escalating a...

US senators on Wednesday urged Donald Trump and his company to publicly disclose any financial ties to Saudi Arabia, as speculation grows over possible "conflicts of interest" amid a probe into the disappearance of a prominent Saudi journalist. The US president has been on the defensive...

US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will decide on Thursday whether he will attend an investment conference in Riyadh that has been boycotted by global business leaders concerned about the fate of Saudi critic Jamal Khashoggi. Two weeks after The Washington Post contributor disappeared...

Scores of members of Syria’s White Helmets civil defense agency have left Jordan to western countries, according to the Jordanian Foreign Ministry. “A total of 279 civil defense volunteers have left the kingdom,” the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The statement,...

Hundreds of extra police in southern India were on high alert Wednesday for the scheduled opening to women of all ages of one of the country's most sacred Hindu temples. Thousands of people, many of them women, have marched in recent days against females being allowed to pray in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 18 regime forces from coastal Latakia province have been killed since mid September, pro-regime news feeds reported. The death toll included 5 army officers. Most of them were killed in the clashes with Daesh in the southern province of Sweida and eastern...

 The academic year began on Wednesday for Syrian orphans at residential complex in southern Hatay province of Turkey. The complex, which was jointly built by Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and Yetim Vakfi (Orphan Foundation), includes newly-constructed primary...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says America takes the disappearance of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi "seriously." Pompeo made the comments to journalists after leaving Turkey on Wednesday during a quick visit that included a talk with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Pompeo...

The U.S. has requested audio and video evidence concerning Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance "if it exists," U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday.  “We have asked for it. If it exists we have asked for it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding it...

An Egyptian security delegation has managed to reach a de-escalation deal between Israel and Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, according to a Palestinian source. “The Egyptian mediation succeeded in halting the escalation that broke out early today in Gaza,” the source told...

Turkish police have arrived at the residence of the Saudi consul in Istanbul to conduct a search over the disappearance and alleged slaying of writer Jamal Khashoggi. The police arrived Wednesday at the home. They had wanted to search Tuesday night but did not have permission...

A U.S. student barred from Israel over past support for a pro-Palestinian boycott campaign appeared before the Jewish state's top court Wednesday in a final appeal against the state's decision. Lara Alqasem, 22, landed at Ben Gurion Airport on Oct. 2, for master's degree studies at...

Iran called new US sanctions against its paramilitary Basij group an act of "blind vindictiveness" on Wednesday. "America's new sanctions are a clear insult to international and legal mechanisms and a result of the American government's blind vindictiveness against the Iranian nation,"...

A bomb placed under a sofa killed an Afghan election candidate on Wednesday, officials said, as deadly violence escalates ahead of the October 20 parliamentary ballot. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, which takes the number of candidates killed so far during...

French prosecutors on Wednesday announced they were investigating leftist firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon after he shoved a prosecutor in a fit of rage over having his apartment and party headquarters raided by police. The leader of the France Unbowed party has drawn criticism over...

Iran has been playing it cool as it watches the furore over the disappearance of writer Jamal Khashoggi create a crisis for its regional rival Saudi Arabia. As of Wednesday, the government had yet to make any official comment on the alleged murder of Khashoggi who vanished after...

Former president Barack Obama had vowed to close the US military-run prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but now it will stay open for at least 25 years, the officer in charge of the facility said Tuesday. Rear Admiral John Ring said the prison, which holds several alleged plotters of the...