(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's fighter jets pounded rebel-held areas in Idlib on Tuesday, ignoring Donald Trump's warning against launching an attack on the northern province that will create a new humanitarian crisis. Tuesday's airstrikes hit the Jisr al-Shughour region and array of towns...

The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is facing growing calls to be put under state surveillance over mounting evidence of its links to neo-Nazi groups, following far-right demonstrations in the eastern city of Chemnitz. A representative poll has showed that a majority of Germans...

Egyptian security officials say they are investigating a suspected explosive device near the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy in the heart of Cairo, Egypt's capital. They say the device was spotted Tuesday outside the concrete barriers that encircle the embassy and the ambassador's...

Talks between major powers this month on setting up a committee to lead constitutional reform in Syria will be a "moment of truth" for a credible political process, U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura told reporters Tuesday. De Mistura will hold separate sets of talks next week, one involving...

USA Gymnastics chief executive Kerry Perry has resigned after just nine months, a statement said Tuesday, dealing another blow to the embattled governing body as it struggles to rebuild after the Larry Nassar sexual abuse scandal. "USA Gymnastics President and CEO Kerry Perry last...

US President Donald Trump has warned the Syrian government against launching an attack on rebel-held Idlib province amid concerns that the planned offensive will create a new humanitarian crisis. "President Bashar al-Assad of Syria must not recklessly attack Idlib Province. The Russians...

  Roger Federer revealed he struggled to breathe during his shock 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (9/7), 7-6 (7/3) defeat to world number 55 John Millman at the US Open on Monday. The 37-year-old five-time champion laboured to his earliest loss at the tournament in five years with his challenge...

The founder of the Haqqani network, one of Afghanistan's most effective and feared militant groups, has died after a long illness, their affiliates the Afghan Taliban announced Tuesday. Jalaluddin Haqqani, whose son Sirajuddin Haqqani now heads the brutal group and is also the Taliban's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 regime forces  from coastal Tartus province were killed in August, pro-regime news feeds reported. Most of slain soldiers have been killed by Daesh and rebels in eastern and southern Syria. The death toll included 4 army officers, one of them...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said the Israeli missile attack on Mezzeh airbase in Damascus has  demolished a five story building used by Air Force Intelligence and pro-regime militias. The regime denies that Israel is responsible for Sunday's attack, saying loud...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Russian military personnel have been killed by a pro-regime militia in the northwestern province of Hama, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. Fighting erupted after the local militants refused to lay down their arms to the Russian military police in the Ghab...

France is partly to blame for the crisis in Libya, Italy's Defence Minister Elisabetta Trenta said Monday, ruling out Italian military intervention there. "France, from my point of view, has a responsibility," the minister wrote on Facebook, evoking the military intervention in 2011 by...

Kei Nishikori and Naomi Osaka carved out a little bit of history at the US Open on Monday when they became the first Japanese players in 23 years to reach the quarter-finals of the same Grand Slam. Nishikori, the 2014 runner-up, downed German veteran Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-3, 6-2, 7-5...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 4 Daesh militants were killed on Monday in eastern Deir Ezzor province as clashes renewed with the US-backed forces, local activists said. Daesh launched a surprise attack on bastions affiliated to the Syrian Democratic Forces north of Deir Ezzor...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has arrested two men said they had links with Daesh in northern Idlib province, such a move follows  after a series of assassinations targeted commanders of the former al-Qaeda branch in Syria. Two senior Daesh commanders were arrested in...

It is the stuff of movie industry legend. The director of the best film ever made leaves behind an unfinished movie destined never to be seen – until now. Orson Welles’ “The Other Side of the Wind,” which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, was shot in the early 1970s. By the time he died in...

Former president Cristina Kirchner appeared in court on Monday for the second time in relation to a corruption case that has rocked Argentina's political and business elites. Two weeks after the Senate voted to partially lift senator Kirchner's congressional immunity so that investigators...

Cyprus police say they have intercepted 36 Syrian migrants, including 11 women and 14 children, after their boat was located off the Mediterranean island nation's southeastern coast. Police said a patrol boat located the migrants' vessel around noon Monday off the island's Cape Greco area....

The death toll from an explosion at a South African munitions depot in Somerset West, near Cape Town, on Monday has risen to eight, Theo Layne, a fire and rescue spokesman said. "I can confirm that eight people are dead," he said, adding that the cause of the blast was not known.

Israel's defense minister said Monday that negotiations with Palestinians on the situation in both Gaza and the occupied West Bank were pointless and that the country should act unilaterally. Avigdor Lieberman's remarks came as Egypt and the United Nations were working to forge a...