(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 22 Syrian regime fighters were killed in coastal region in an ambush claimed by the opposition armed groups, field sources said Friday. The Turkish-backed rebels  struck the regime forces in the eastern front of  Latakia province, Bashar al-Assad’s...

Yemen's internationally recognized government is ready to attend U.N.-brokered talks next month in Geneva but is "not optimistic," a government official said on Friday. "We will go but we are not optimistic," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity. He said there remained "huge...

Turkey is again to open a consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, four years after it was seized and its employees held hostage by Daesh (ISIS) extremists, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. Ankara had opened a well-staffed consulate in Mosul, in a sign of Turkey's ambitions...

May Skaf, a prominent Syrian actress and activist who emerged as a fiercely outspoken critic of President Bashar Assad's regime after the uprising began in 2011, was buried Friday in France, where she had fled after being freed from prison. The 49-year-old actress was found dead at her home...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday he might send the navy's most modern frigate to waters off Libya in a bid to "save" three Filipinos and a South Korean kidnapped last month from a water plant in the north African country. South Korea has redirected a vessel taking part in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 38 troops from coastal Tartus province were killed in the July, pro-regime news feeds said. Most of slain soldiers have been killed by Daesh and rebels in eastern and southern Syria. The death toll included 12 army officers, one of them was Brigadier General....

Top ministers of the anti-establishment Italian government are expected to meet Friday to discuss the country's budget for next year, two sources said, as the government remains split about spending plans. The meeting is scheduled for 0900 GMT, the sources told Reuters....

Russia is allowing thousands of fresh North Korean laborers into the country and granting new work permits in potential violation of U.N. sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Over 10,000 new North Korean workers have registered in Russia since September, the paper said,...

The U.N. human rights chief is defending his outspoken criticism of rights abuses in dozens of countries from Myanmar and Hungary to the United States, insisting that his office doesn't "bring shame on governments, they shame themselves." Zeid Raad al-Hussein told a farewell press conference...

Iran's foreign minister said Friday China was "pivotal" to salvaging a multilateral nuclear agreement for the Middle Eastern country after the United States pulled out of the pact earlier this year. U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 deal in May. International sanctions...

The whereabouts of a Chinese professor known for his views critical of the government remained unknown Friday, two days after police interrupted his radio interview with U.S. government broadcaster Voice of America. Sun Wenguang was speaking to the station on Wednesday night when he...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa won election Friday with just over 50 percent of the ballots as the ruling party maintained control of the government in the first vote since the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa received 50.8 percent of the vote while main...

Henrique Meirelles, a former finance minister in unpopular President Michel Temer's government, joined Brazil's presidential race Thursday, promising market reforms to rebuild the battered economy. Meirelles, 72, is offering Brazil continuity after a tumultuous few years that saw the...

 Exiled opposition leader Moise Katumbi, who is seeking to return to the Democratic Republic of Congo to contest elections, will be refused entry to the country, Ghislain Robert Lubara, mayor of his former stronghold of Lubumbashi said Thursday. The former governor of the...

The Jordanian army Thursday said it had killed a number of Daesh (ISIS) militants who had tried to approach its northern border with Syria. The incident Tuesday came as clashes raged between Syrian regime forces and "a gang of Daesh terrorists" in the Yarmuk Basin region of southwestern...

(Zaman Al Wasl) – Unknown assailants on Thursday killed senior commander in the powerful YPG militia in the northeastern city of Hasaka, local source said Thursday. Khoshaf Haskeh was killed in the western neighbourhood of the Kurdish- ontrolled city. Haskeh was the leader of a...

At least 28 people were killed Thursday in an air strike outside a hospital and the bombardment of a fish market in Yemen's rebel-held port city Hudaida, medics and witnesses said. Yemeni government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition have been conducting an offensive to capture Hudaida...

(HRW)- The de facto authorities of two areas of northeast Syria are unlawfully restricting the movement of people who escaped from Islamic State (also known as ISIS)-held areas in displacement camps, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities from the Syrian Democratic Council, a...

A 22-year-old woman who became a symbol of sexual harassment on France's streets says a new law banning offensive comments and behavior isn't enough to stop them. Marie Laguerre said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that she has received messages of thanks from...

The White House on Thursday said there were no future meetings planned with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un but that President Donald Trump was open to another sitdown. Earlier on Thursday Trump tweeted his gratitude to Kim for sending home remains of soldiers from the 1950-1953 Korean...