Israeli forces rounded up 22 Palestinians in overnight raids across the occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military on Monday. The individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army said in a statement, without elaborating on the...

A deadline passed Monday without militants leaving a planned buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion of Idlib as set out under a Russian-Turkish deal. The radical fighters were supposed to withdraw from the buffer as a final condition to implementing a Russian-Turkish deal...

Gareth Bale will miss Wales' Nations League clash against the Republic of Ireland after the Real Madrid star returned to Spain to continue his recovery from a groin injury. Bale was sidelined for Wales' 4-1 friendly defeat against Spain in Cardiff on Thursday after aggravating the groin...

A Russian-Turkish deal to set up a buffer zone around Syria's last major rebel bastion hung by a thread Sunday, as jihadists showed no sign of withdrawing hours before a deadline. The accord also provides for the clearance of heavy weapons from a U-shaped zone around the northwestern...

Germany's 3-0 defeat to the Netherlands on Saturday left them bottom of their Nations League group ahead of Tuesday's away match against world champions France. Three months after the World Cup debacle, head coach Joachim Loew is desperate for a win at the Stade de France to ease the...

Saudi stocks dived 7.0 percent in early trading on Sunday as the oil-rich kingdom comes under increasing international pressure over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The Tadawul All-Shares Index (TASI) quickly lost more than 500 points on the first trading day of the...

The border crossing between Jordan and Syria will reopen on Monday after being closed for years, a Jordanian government spokeswoman and Syrian state television said Sunday after weeks of talks. "This was a crucial artery of trade between Jordan and Syria and transit to other countries,"...

Jordan's King Abdullah II Sunday vowed authorities would crack down on corruption in the country, following mass protests against graft and price rises earlier this year. "All Jordanians have an equal right to justice, and corruption will not be left unaddressed to become a chronic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The story of Factory 793 for  small and light weapons  is evidently very telling of the Syrian regime’s failure to acquire the minimum scientific sophistication and progress like its supporters claim it does.  A well-informed source attributed this to a...

A year after a car bomb killed Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, those who ordered the murder remain free while others continuing her work in the EU's smallest state are branded traitors. The windswept field where the mother-of-three's burnt-out car ended up on...

Ukrainian teenager Dayana Yastremska said Sunday she was dreaming of a Grand Slam after she crushed Chinese number one Wang Qiang 6-2, 6-1 at the Hong Kong Open to claim her first ever title. The 18-year-old comprehensively outplayed the world number 24 to win the tournament without...

Nineteen people, including children, died on Sunday when a vehicle carrying migrants reportedly heading for EU member Greece plunged off the highway into a waterway in western Turkey, state media said. The vehicle, believed to be a lorry, was travelling on a highway in the Izmir region...

Saudi Arabia warned Sunday it would retaliate against any sanctions imposed on the oil-rich kingdom over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as the Riyadh stock market suffered its worst plunge in years. From tech tycoons to media giants, a host of Western companies are now...

Israel's government Sunday approved the construction of 31 settler homes in Hebron, the first such green light for the flashpoint West Bank city since 2002, a cabinet minister said. Construction permits were agreed in October last year but needed the government's approval, according to...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has signed into law a new bill expanding the powers of a government ministry overseeing religious affairs and limiting the term of the country’s top Muslim cleric. The draft, which state media reported Assad had signed into law Friday, had been amended...

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday threatened to inflict "very strong blows" on Hamas after fresh violence along the border with the Gaza Strip controlled by the group. "Hamas has apparently not understood the message – if these attacks do not stop, they will be stopped in...

Rebels have fired mortar shells from a planned buffer zone in northwest Syria, an activist group said Sunday, days after they were meant to have withdrawn such weapons from the area. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said rebels in the zone fired several "mortar shells at an army...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday that his country was eager to work with Egypt to boost airline security, three years after a bomb attack downed a Russian plane, killing more than 200 holidaymakers. In a column published in the Egyptian state newspaper al-Ahram...

Hundreds of people were taken by Daesh (ISIS) fighters from a displacement camp in east Syria during a militant counterattack against advancing U.S.-backed forces, an activist group said Saturday. The militants raided the camp Friday, taking "more than 100 families" including relatives of...

 U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Riyadh Saturday with "severe punishment" if a journalist was killed inside its Istanbul consulate, as Saudi officials were to hold talks in Turkey about his fate. With the mystery over Jamal Khashoggi unresolved 11 days after he walked into the...