A Jordanian court has sentenced an alleged Daesh (ISIS) member to 20 years of hard labor for a 2016 attack on security forces, an AFP correspondent at the trial said. The 25-year-old was charged with acquiring automatic weapons along with his two brothers and turning their house in...

Iraqi security forces sprayed tear gas and fired into the air to try to disperse thousands of protesters on Wednesday in the southern city of Basra, in some of the worst unrest in the region for months. The deaths of five protesters in clashes with security forces on Tuesday added to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime intelligence has arrested a former rebel commander who signed a recolcination deal with the Syrian regime in southern Daraa province two months ago, activists said Tuesday. Ayham al-Jahmani was the commander of al-Mansour Brigade before laying down...

A large number of Americans are stepping back from Facebook in the wake of recent scandals over the social network's handling of private user data, a study showed Wednesday. The Pew Research Center report found 42 percent of US Facebook users said they had "taken a break" from the...

Share prices on the Saudi stock exchange dived on Wednesday after a panic selloff on concerns a downturn in emerging markets could hit the oil-rich Gulf kingdom. The Tadawul All-Shares Index (TASI) dipped 3.1 percent to a five-month low of 7,719.10 points, partly recovering early losses...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A drug toxicity at a camp for displaced people near the northern city of Hasaka has sickened 16 people, including 13 children, medics told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. The displaced people from the camp of al-Sad south of Hasaka city took ill on Tuesday after taking wrong...

Yemen's government will demand the release of the body of ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, killed by rebels last year, at upcoming peace talks in Geneva, a minister said Wednesday. Saleh, for decades the most powerful politician in troubled Yemen, had sided with the Huthi rebels for three...

 Israel has carried out more than 200 attacks against Iranian targets in Syria in the last two years, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday, in a rare summary of its campaign. According to regional sources, Israel began carrying out military strikes in Syria in 2013 against...

Heavy rains triggered a landslide in southern Ethiopia Tuesday, killing 12 people and "severely injuring" another four, state-affiliated media said. The victims were killed when the landslide crushed three houses in the Dawro Zone of the Horn of Africa country's SNNP province, Fana...

Indonesian high school students fled to higher ground as tsunami warning sirens blared Wednesday, launching an evacuation exercise across a region devastated by a 2004 disaster which killed over 200,000 people. The drill simulated a magnitude 9.3 earthquake off the west coast of...

 Air raids have pounded areas in Syria's last rebel-held province of Idlib, killing at least 14 civilians and raising further concerns that an all-out regime offensive is only a matter of time. The strikes on Tuesday came as the United Nations urged Russia, key Bashar al-Assad...

Ninety elephant carcasses have been discovered in Botswana with their tusks hacked off, a charity said Tuesday, in what is believed to be one of Africa’s worst mass poaching sprees. Most of the animals killed were large bulls carrying heavy tusks, Elephants Without Borders said. The grim...

Syria's Kurdish-led northeast will not be given special treatment and will be dealt with in the same way as other parts of Syria, a regime minister said on Tuesday. "We cannot give any Syrian province something which differentiates it from other provinces or ethnicities, or (allow it)...

A group of Latin American countries signed a resolution on Tuesday urging Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro to accept humanitarian aid to "alleviate" the country's migration crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled an economic collapse in Venezuela that has resulted in food...

More than 1.4 billion adults are putting themselves at heightened risk of deadly diseases by not getting enough exercise, doctors are warning, with global activity levels virtually unchanged in nearly two decades. With richer nations enjoying an increasingly comfortable, sedentary...

  Still riding the wave of their historic World Cup run, Croatia are heading for a potential reality check as their new season starts with a friendly against Portugal in Faro on Thursday. It will be the tiny Balkan nation's first match since the side led by star midfielder Luka...

On the eve of the resumption of talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces a dilemma. He can either push back against US demands and risk being cut out of a continental trade deal, or give in and be accused by opposition parties...

Syrian state media and an independent monitoring group are reporting an Israeli air raid targeting regime-held areas in the center and west of the country. Syria's SANA news agency says Israeli jets flying at high altitude above Lebanon fired several missiles on the area of Wadi Ayoun...

Turkey's Red Crescent is stepping up preparations inside Syria to shelter people displaced by an expected military offensive against the rebel-held region of Idlib, the organization's head said on Tuesday. Turkey, which already hosts more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees, has warned...

Qatar has approved legislation to scrap controversial exit visas which require all foreign workers to obtain their employers' permission to leave the country, according to official statements published Tuesday. There are some two million foreign workers in Qatar, many employed directly...