Iran launched a naval exercise in the Arabian Gulf on Thursday, just days before the U.S. reimposes sanctions on Tehran, a defense official told AFP. The timing of the exercise is unusual, as it appears to be similar in scale and nature to a drill that ordinarily happens later in the...

Zimbabwe's ruling party signaled victory in the presidential election Thursday, telling the opposition a day after deadly violence that "we should all lose graciously," while an anxious country awaited the results, which the electoral commission said would come out "very soon."...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 101 Syrians, including women, have been deprived of Syrian citizenship for unknown reasons, the leaked Intelligence archive showed. Examining documents of 1.7 million archive that obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed that tens of Syrians were stripped of their...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- A blast killed a woman and wounded others in the northwestern city of Idlib on Thursday, local reporter said. The car bomb hit thebus station in the extremist-held city.   Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Monday arrested three men said they were...

Israel said Thursday it saw potentially stabilizing benefits to Bashar Assad’s winning the Syrian civil war, after the Israeli military said it had killed seven Islamist insurgents in a rare air strike across the countries' frontier. The remarks, by Israel's defense minister, signal an...

 The Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday flew a team led by Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga to an eastern region hit by Ebola, the country's second outbreak in less than three months, a local official said. The delegation from Kinshasa "arrived in Beni today," the city's...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The fourth batch of refugees will return next week to Syria from the Lebanese border town of Arsal, topping the number of voluntarily returned refugees to 2600, Zaman al-Wasl report said. The new batch of refugees is due to enter Syria as the evacuation procedures...

United States sanctions imposed on Turkey over the trial of an American pastor accused of backing terrorism are unacceptable and will have limited impact on the Turkish economy, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said Thursday. Albayrak said Turkey's priority was to resolve...

An international aid group says about 3,000 Yemeni children are fleeing every day from the port city of Hudaida as fighting between an Arab-coalition and Yemen's Shiite rebels continues to rage there. Thursday's statement by Save the Children says that 6,238 people – half of them...

Israel's defense minister described Syria's return to its pre-civil war situation as a given Thursday, and predicted that the Occupied-Golan Heights frontier would be quieter with Bashar Assad's central rule restored. "From our perspective, the situation is returning to how it was...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the situation on the Korean peninsula with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, during a trip to Singapore, the ministry said Thursday. The ministers spoke on the sidelines of a meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations...

Net profit at BMW fell 6 percent in the second quarter as it spent more on developing new technologies for electric, autonomous and digitally connected automobiles, the luxury carmaker said Thursday. Profit came in at 2.08 billion euros ($2.42 billion), down from 2.22 billion in the...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should end a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, drawing a rebuke from both Democrats and his fellow Republicans in Congress. The Republican president has long complained...

Morocco's King Mohammad VI has sacked the country's economy minister, his office said Wednesday, after the monarch demanded "urgent action" on social issues in the North African nation hit by unrest over unemployment and graft. The king decided to dismiss Mohammad Boussaid after...

Israel’s military chief is pleading to keep politics out of the army amid rising protests by the Druze minority against a recently passed law that enshrines the state’s Jewish character and that critics say undermines its democratic values. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot has called on “all commanders...

The White House is announcing that the Treasury Department is imposing sanctions on two Turkish officials over a detained American pastor who is being tried on espionage and terror-related charges. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the Trump administration would sanction...

An armed group robbed a Tunisian bank in the town of Kasserine near the Algerian border on Wednesday in an attack with a "terrorist background," a Tunisian security official said. Eleven men, some armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, had hijacked a car and four then stormed the bank and...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Wednesday that if it were to try to block the key Red Sea Bab al-Mandab strait, it would likely face an international coalition that would include Israel. "If Iran will try to block the straits of Bab al-Mandab, I am certain that it...

The sound of automatic gunfire reverberated through Harare on Wednesday as armored military vehicles rolled through the Zimbabwean capital and soldiers fired on opposition activists protesting against alleged electoral fraud. By the time daylight began to fade at least one man had been shot...

The road to Syria's border crossing with Jordan, closed by conflict in 2011, is ready for use and the Syrian regime is looking at prospects of reopening it after recovering the border from rebels, the Syrian transport minister said. Billions of dollars in annual trade moved through the...