An explosion rocked the rebel-held Afrin enclave in northern Syria on Wednesday, killing two and wounding 18 others, activists reported. The explosion was caused by a roadside bomb left on a sidewalk in a popular marketplace in Afrin in the northern countryside of Aleppo province,...

A deal on an overhaul of the North American Free Trade Agreement appears to be within reach, as Canada and the United States were set to continue negotiations Thursday aimed at getting the pact done by the end of the week. The two sides will resume their talks with a face-to-face...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday held previously unannounced talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish presidency said, with the situation in Syria likely to have dominated the agenda. With expectation growing of an offensive by Tehran ally President...

Images of far-right protestors delivering Nazi salutes in Germany this week were "really shocking", the UN rights chief said Wednesday, warning against growing "amnesia" for the horrors of past European wars. A knife killing Sunday in Germany's ex-communist eastern region of Saxony,...

South Korea's Son Heung-min moved just 90 minutes away from the gold medal that would spare him military service on Wednesday as Bahrain's Edidiong Odiong completed a rare sprint double at the Asian Games. Tottenham Hotspur forward Son played a captain's role as Korea beat Vietnam 3-1...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran for more than two years on sedition charges, was taken to the prison clinic after blacking out on Wednesday, her husband said. Richard Ratcliffe said she had suffered a series of panic attacks and Iranian authorities...

Leftwing firebrand actress Vanessa Redgrave revealed Wednesday that she is something of a royalist as she picked up a lifetime's achievement award at the Venice film festival. The British actress, who turned down a damehood in 1999 from Tony Blair's Labour government, told reporters...

Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said Wednesday reaching a deal with the EU ahead of an October summit "is within our sights" but there is "leeway" to miss the deadline. Raab, who only took up his role in July, insisted 80 percent of an agreement on Britain's future relationship with the...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday that his government should be ready to "set aside" the 2015 nuclear deal if it is no longer in the country's national interests. "The JCPOA (nuclear deal) is not the objective, it is only a means," he said in a meeting with the...

The Turkish lira showed no sign of recovery as it slid further against the US dollar on Wednesday, hours after Moody's downgraded its credit ratings on 20 Turkish financial institutions. The currency has been hit by concerns over monetary policy under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan but...

Aston Martin on Wednesday said it plans to float one quarter of the British company on the London stock market, as demand rises worldwide for the luxury brand's cars favoured by fictional spy James Bond. Full details of the initial public offering will be published on September 20,...

A U.S. delegation including security and intelligence officials visited Damascus in June and met Syria’s security chief, an official in the regional alliance backing Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday the pro-Hezbollah Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar reported that the U.S....

The Venice film festival was slammed for its "toxic masculinity" as it opens Wednesday with just one female director represented among its most mouth-watering line-up in decades. With Hollywood effectively turning the festival into its launchpad for the Oscars with new films by Damien...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmed Zabadani is an ambitious young man from the province of Daraa, who has been deficient in oxygen, when a child, and has been unable to walk since then. However Ahmad did not surrender. He carried out his studies, until he arrived to Jordan with his family, where he...

Cristiano Ronaldo's stunning overhead bicycle kick for Real Madrid against current club Juventus has been voted UEFA's goal of the season. The former Real Madrid striker beat competition from 11 nominees for the award in honour of his goal in last season's Champions League quarter-final...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al well-informed source, close to the regime, has revealed the existence of a secret prison, that was established during the early years of Bashar al-Assad's reign in 2000, in the vicinity of the presidential palace, “The People’s Place”, which is the regime's largest and most...

Several UN Security Council ambassadors on Tuesday voiced concern over the fate of civilians in the rebel-held Syrian province of Idlib, as Damascus appears ready to militarily re-take the region. Following a council meeting on the humanitarian situation in Syria, Western nations warned of...

Iraq will send a delegation to the United States seeking an agreement on financial transactions with Iran following Washington's reimposition of sanctions on Tehran, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday. "We are not with economic sanctions against any country and that is our...

A bomb blast tore through a crowd at a festival in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding dozens more in the second deadly attack in under a month in the region, authorities said. The powerful bomb in the town of Isulan went off near a night market that was...

 U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has invited the United States and six other countries for talks in Geneva next month, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Tuesday, as the United Nations continues its push for a new Syrian constitution. He plans to meet senior representatives from the...