The Assad regime and its allies have continued their low-intensity attacks on Idlib’s de-escalation zone despite a ceasefire agreement, local sources told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday.  Regime forces and Iranian-backed terrorist groups have continued to shell villages in rural areas of...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will try to discourage Russia from providing Syria with an S-300 air-defense system during his upcoming visit to the U.S., according to Israeli media reports. Netanyahu is scheduled to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, which is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two major relief organizations, pledged to provide "full clarification" about the rumors that has been recently circulated about their officials' meeting with representatives of the regime. The Syrian-American Medical Association (SAMS) and the Union of Medical...

Beijing authorities who shut down a Christian church after its pastor criticised new curbs on religion have now ordered it to pay 1.2 million yuan ($170,000) in back rent and removal costs. The Zion Church had been one of China's biggest unofficial Protestant churches until it was...

Pope Francis called Wednesday for all Chinese Catholics to reconcile, while admitting that a historic deal with Beijing on nominating bishops may have caused "confusion". "I now invite all Chinese Catholics to work towards reconciliation," the pope wrote in a message to Roman Catholics...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday called for a "comprehensive United Nations reform process" in an article he penned for the Foreign Policy magazine. Speaking about the ongoing humanitarian crises across the world, Erdogan said: "The list goes on, but it is clear that the...

Nigeria appears to have taken a softer stance on Africa's leading mobile operator MTN, assuring stakeholders that a dispute over the repatriation of $8.13 in dividends will be "resolved". Talking to reporters in Abuja following a monetary policy committee meeting on Tuesday, Nigeria's...

Six months after President Donald Trump said he wants US troops out of Syria, his top officials are hammering home what has become increasingly obvious: the US isn't going anywhere. Trump administration members say there can be no troop pull-out until the Islamic State is permanently...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said the Syrian Air Force formed commission of Inquiry to investigae the downing of the downed Russian Ilyushin-20 with 15 troops on board was shot down by a Syrian air defense missile on September 17. M. General Ahmed Balloul, head of the...

Bill Cosby was marched out of court in handcuffs on Tuesday after being sentenced to between three and 10 years in prison for sexual assault, capping the downfall of the once-beloved comedian known as "America's Dad." Cosby, 81, was found guilty in April of three counts of aggravated...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused his US counterpart Donald Trump of trying to topple his government Tuesday as he poured cold water on the idea of resuming talks with Washington after its pullout from an international nuclear accord. "It is ironic that the US government does not even...

Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday pleaded for urgent aid for Palestinian refugees to curb the appeal of radicalism after the United States ended all support. Addressing the UN General Assembly, the Jordanian leader sought a revival of the Middle East peace process and voiced worries...

 The intensity of a Russia-backed assault on a former rebel stronghold in Syria using suspected chemical weapons and cluster bombs has been laid bare in a new report. The population of eastern Ghouta, an area on the outskirts of Damascus, endured years under a siege enforced by the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian forces took a village from Islamic State militant group in eastern Deir Ezzor province after heavy clashes Tuesday, local activists said.  The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have seized control of al-Shajlah near the strategic Bagouz area,...

The US Federal Reserve is due to begin a two-day policy meeting later Tuesday, and markets overwhelmingly expected the third rate hike of the year as inflation mounts and the economy grows. Central bankers are gathering under a long shadow cast by President Donald Trump, who has...

A German court said Tuesday it could not enforce a Chilean prison sentence for a German former member of a Nazi paedophile sect for complicity in child sex abuse. It ruled that Hartmut Hopp, 74, could not be jailed because the evidence the Chilean court had provided against him fell...

The United States on Tuesday urged Hong Kong to allow freedom of expression as it voiced concern over a ban on the pro-independence party. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a statement said the United States was "concerned" by the ban on the Hong Kong National Party, a first since...

Pope Francis on Tuesday admitted the clerical sex abuse scandals have put off some young people who believe the Catholic Church has not expressed enough condemnation. "We know -- and you have told us -- that many young people do not turn to us for anything because they don't feel we...

A key figure in Britain's main opposition Labour party said Tuesday that remaining in the European Union should not be ruled out if there is a second Brexit referendum. Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer told the left-wing party's annual conference that campaigning for another vote on...

Iran's intelligence ministry said Tuesday that investigators had found last week's deadly attack on a military parade in the mainly ethnic-Arab southwestern city of Ahvaz was mounted by "jihadist separatists". "The five members of a terrorist squad affiliated to jihadist separatist...