Russia voiced support for Saudi Arabia in its worsening row with Canada on Wednesday, telling Ottawa it was unacceptable to lecture the kingdom on human rights. Saudi Arabia froze new trade and investment with Canada and expelled the Canadian ambassador this week in a retaliatory move...

When Oudai al-Homsi left his wife, toddler son and 8-month-old daughter in Jordan to seek asylum in Germany in 2015, he thought it would be a matter of months before they could join him. He hasn’t seen them since. Homsi, 28, settled in Berlin and authorities granted him subsidiary protection...

An anticipated Syrian regime offensive against rebels in Idlib province could displace more than 700,000 people, far more than were uprooted in a recent battle in the southwest of Syria, a U.N.-led group of health agencies said in a monthly report. Many of Syria's battles have ended with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As hundreds of Syrian refugees seek a voluntarily return to Syria , the Lebanese General Security announced its will to create centers to register refugees after earlier outlining conditions for returnees who are in violation of residency requirements, including lifetime bans...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A pro-Tahrir al-Sham rebel group on Wednesday has launched an arrest campaign against people who seek reconciliation with the regime forces in northern Idlib province, local sources said. The security units of the National Liberation Front have raided the earstern...

Aid groups said the international airport in Yemen's capital has been hit with an average of one bomb every two weeks since a Saudi-led coalition closed it to all commercial traffic two years ago. The Norwegian Refugee Council and CARE International said the coalition has carried out 56...

Aid began reaching isolated areas of the Indonesian island struggling after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 131 people, while rescuers Wednesday doubled down on efforts to find the dead, pulling another body from the rubble. Volunteers and rescue personnel were erecting more...

The Israeli military sounded air defense sirens near the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in what it later said was a mistake. "This was a false alarm," the military said on Twitter. Israel uses sirens to warn of rocket or mortar launches by militants in the besieged Palestinian enclave,...

Central Coast Mariners coach Mick Mulvey says Usain Bolt will be treated as any other player when he joins the Australian A-League club this month on an "indefinite" trial. Mulvey will make the final decision over whether Bolt is offered a contract as the Jamaican sprinting great...

Paul Manafort’s longtime deputy told jurors Tuesday how he spent years disguising millions of dollars in foreign income as loans to lower the former Trump campaign chairman’s tax bill. Rick Gates, the government’s star witness, recounted how he and Manafort used more than a dozen offshore shell...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least eight regime troops were killed Tuesday when rebels attacked their bastion in coastal region, sources said. The surprise attack took place near the village of Rabea'h in Latakia province. Eights more troops were wounded in the attack. Last Friday,...

Kenyans and Tanzanians on Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the Al-Qaeda bombings of the U.S. embassies in their countries that killed more than 250 people, with hundreds of local survivors calling on the U.S. government for compensation. The explosions on Aug. 7, 1998, were the...

Nigeria's security forces stopped lawmakers from entering parliament on Tuesday, but the presidency condemned the blockade and the acting president fired the head of the security agency. It is the first such incident since Nigeria became a democracy in 1999 and coincides with increased...

Azza Abo Rebieh got her guards to give her pencils and paper, then began sketching the faces and habits of fellow inmates in Syria’s notorious detention system. This is Hiam, a 65-year-old woman smoking a cigarette and sipping matteh, a warm herbal drink popular in Syria. It is a...

Turkish officials say a government delegation will travel to the United States for talks aimed at ending a rift between the NATO allies over the detention of an American pastor. The United States last week imposed sanctions on two Turkish Cabinet ministers over the treatment of Andrew...

Greece's prime minister vowed Tuesday that experts will investigate all aspects of the country's deadliest forest fire in decades and that the seaside resort areas devastated by the blaze will be rebuilt to higher standards. Alexis Tsipras led a meeting about the fire Tuesday with...

White House national security adviser John Bolton Tuesday said North Korea has not taken the necessary steps to denuclearize despite an agreement between Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in June. Bolton, in an interview on Fox News, said U.S. Secretary of...

The Syrian regime Tuesday condemned the United States' reimposition of sanctions on Iran, describing the move against its longtime ally as "illegal" and driven by "arrogance." A first wave of renewed U.S. sanctions came into effect Tuesday, hitting Tehran's access to U.S. banknotes and...

Russia Tuesday said it was "deeply disappointed" by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to reimpose unilateral sanctions on Iran. "We are deeply disappointed by U.S. steps to reimpose its national sanctions against Iran," the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement. The ministry...

Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz Tuesday welcomed the killing of a leading Syrian weapons scientist but declined to comment on reports his government was behind the fatal bombing. Gen. Aziz Asbar, head of a Syrian government weapons research center, was killed along with his...