(Zaman Al Wasl)- Social media activists surfaced footage for Lebanese police beating a Syrian refugee in detention center. According to Lebanese news feeds the refugee was subjected to a severe torture by the police of  of Armon town in the Aley district.  The video...

Iraq has stopped trading with Iran in the U.S. dollar after Washington imposed economic sanctions on Tehran, according to the country’s central bank on Saturday.   The Central Bank of Iraq has notified to all banks in the country that using dollars with Iranian banks has been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 Daesh militants and their families have surrendered to to the US-backed Kurdish forces in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Saturday. The militants have agreed to lay down their arms, in a rare move by the harlinder militants. Ten...

Romania's capital Bucharest was bracing for another big demonstration Saturday, only a day after more than 450 people were hurt and around 30 arrested in a huge anti-corruption protest. Hundreds of people - some carrying Romanian flags - started gathering around a central square in...

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is to visit top trading partners Turkey and Iran next week, an official said Saturday, days after Washington slapped new sanctions on Tehran and piled economic pressure on Ankara. Abadi "will head to Turkey on Tuesday and Iran on Wednesday to...

The leaders of Spain and Germany agreed Saturday to push for greater EU help for countries such as Morocco, a major point of departure for migrants and refugees trying to reach Europe. "Fourteen kilometres separate the coast of Spain - and therefore Europe - from those of North Africa...

The United States has started cutting scores of Pakistani military officers from the education and training program, Pakistani media reported on Saturday.  The U.S. military institutions are “struggling” to fill the 66 slots, which they had kept aside for Pakistani officers, for next...

China's business and energy ties with Iran do not harm the interests of any other country, the country's Foreign Ministry said, after U.S. President Donald Trump said companies doing business with Iran would be barred from the United States. China has already defended its commercial...

Talks between Yemen's warring parties next month will focus on a transitional governance deal and disarmament, the U.N. special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, said in remarks published Saturday. Griffiths is trying to negotiate an end to the three-year conflict that has killed more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by allied militias have launched major offeiensive to uproot rebels from last stronghold in Latakia province, local activists said Saturday. The offensive seeks to take full control of Jabal al-Turkman, a de-escalation zone controlled by...

Syrian air defenses engaged an "enemy target" near the border with Lebanon west of Damascus overnight, state news agency SANA reported Saturday. "Our air defenses confronted an enemy target that penetrated airspace above the area of Deir al-Ashair in the Damascus countryside," SANA...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Saturday they had killed 10 militants overnight in a security operation conducted in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the official news agency IRNA reported. "A well-equipped terrorist group ... intending to infiltrate the country from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Main hospitals and schools in northern Idlib province have suspended work due to heavy aerial bombing by the Syrian regime and Russia that left about 100 killed and wounded, activists said Saturday. Central Idlib Hospital and Maarret al-Numan hospitals expressed fears...

The rice farmer doesn't know how it happened. Abdul Mannan just knows a mistake was made somewhere. But what can you say when the authorities suddenly insist one of your five children isn't an Indian? What do you do when your wife and daughter-in-law are suddenly viewed as illegal immigrants?...

Former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in a new book that there are tapes of President Donald Trump using racial slurs and that she saw him behaving "like a dog off the leash" at numerous events he attended without his wife, first lady Melania Trump. The accusations...

A "suicidal" airline employee stole an empty Horizon Air turboprop plane, took off from Sea-Tac International Airport and was chased by military jets before crashing into a small island in the Puget Sound on Friday night, officials said. Preliminary information suggests the crash occurred...

BeIN Sports announced Friday it will extend its contract by three years to exclusively broadcast English Premier League football matches in the Middle East and North Africa region. The contract means the Qatari broadcaster will show matches from the English top tier from next year to the end...

Teams of whale experts Thursday were racing out to sea to help an ailing young killer whale, but they don’t plan to intervene to help a mother orca in the same critically endangered pod that has been pushing the body of her dead calf for more than two weeks. The young orca J50 was spotted off...

Armed robbers killed at least 10 people, including a policeman, when they raided a police station and two banks in southern Nigeria, police said Friday. The incident, which took place Thursday in Igarra in Edo state, was the latest in a string of such robberies in which the assailants...

A shooting in a small Canadian city Friday left four people dead, including two police officers, under circumstances that were not yet explained but struck a nerve in a country that has been roiled in recent months by several instances of mass violence. People in Fredericton, the capital of New...