Mohammad Al Arabi's borrowed ute arrives before dawn at Beirut's Burg Hammoud sports stadium. His wife and three boys sit in the low-slung tray of the white Toyota, wedged between a tall load of suitcases, plastic bags stuffed full with clothes, a microwave, a rug and even a giant pink...

Tunisia's presidency Friday announced the extension of the country's state of emergency, imposed in 2015 following a series of deadly jihadist attacks. The decision to prolong the state of emergency until November 6 comes amid a tense political climate ahead of legislative and...

A German state official apologized Friday for an incident of mistaken identity that left a Syrian man imprisoned and then dead. In July, the 26-year-old man was arrested for failing to pay a fine for theft. But police officers did not thoroughly check his identity, said Herbert Reul,...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said that oil giant Aramco's initial public offering will go ahead by early 2021 after reports emerged the plan had been scrapped, Bloomberg reported. "I believe late 2020, early 2021," Prince Mohammed told Bloomberg in an interview published late...

Indian and Russia leaders on Friday signed the deal for five Russian S-400 Triumf missile shield systems, according to media reports, with an official statement expected later in the day. After arriving in New Delhi on Thursday for a two-day visit, Russian President Vladimir Putin met...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh militants launched counter attack on the US-backed forces in eastern Deir Ezzor province Friday, leaving 8 fighters killed, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl. The surprise attack began with a car bomb near the town of al-Hajeen. Three fighters from the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- For the fifth consecutive Friday, thousands of Syrians came out to the streets of rebel-held areas to rally against the regime and key ally Russia. The demonstration took place in Idlib province and the northern countryside of Aleppo. Demonstrators held up the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Almost every famous street or main metro station in the French capital, Paris contains beggars holding signs reading "A Syrian family in need of help", benefiting from the French people’s sympathy with the Syrian tragedy. That’s how they devoted themselves, individually and...

US sportswear giant Nike says it is "deeply concerned" by rape allegations against star client Cristiano Ronaldo while shares in his club Juventus fell almost 10 percent on the Italian stock exchange on Friday. Ronaldo's coach at Juventus, Massimiliano Allegri, said the striker is...

Dutch agents decided not to arrest four Russians accused of plotting a cyber-attack on the world's chemical weapons watchdog because it was "not a criminal inquiry", Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Friday. The Netherlands said Thursday it had immediately expelled the agents from GRU...

Russia's shadowy military intelligence has found itself thrust into an unwelcome spotlight over glaring errors that exposed its agents' alleged role in the poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and an attempt to hack into the global chemical weapons watchdog. - Salisbury...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Friday threatened to escalate against Gaza-based Palestinian resistance group Hamas now that last month’s Jewish holidays have ended. "The holiday month has gone exactly as we planned -- without any confrontations or heavy losses among the...

Israel’s Jerusalem municipality has announced plans to remove the UN’s relief agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from occupied East Jerusalem, the Israeli press has reported.  According to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has accused the agency of...

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced in Oslo early Friday. Mukwege, a Congolese doctor, and Murad, an Ezidi campaigner from Iraq, were awarded "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A very significant development has taken place in the last few hours where the congressional council approved one of the laws before it concerning the amendment of the Federal Aviation Administration Act and the development of its items, promising to achieve the...

The International Monetary Fund has called on Pakistan?s new government to act fast to stabilise its teetering economy, warning growth will likely slow and inflation rise, but made no mention of a new bailout deal. Former cricketer Imran Khan?s new administration had vowed to decide by...

At least 14 people have been killed in the escalating ethnic tensions in central Nigeria’s central Plateau state, an army spokesman said late Thursday. Adam Umar, an army spokesman, told reporters that the latest killings took place in the Jol community, where 13 people -- including...

One person was killed and three others injured on Thursday when an explosion tore through a fuel depot north of capital Cairo, according to local media reports. Flagship state daily Al-Ahram reported that a fire broke out after a fuel tank exploded at an oil-pumping warehouse in the...

A top Israeli official has said that Iran’s military presence in Syria would still be vulnerable even after Russia provides Damascus with its more advanced S-300 air-defense system. “We have made it clear to the Russians at the highest levels in recent days that we have no interest in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people wounded Thursday by an improvised explosive device in opposition-held city of Jarablus, local activists said. The local police said it had arrested the perpetrator hours after the attack that rocked a petrol station, with no further details....