Four Syrian regime fighters were killed east of the capital, an activist group said Wednesday, in an ambush claimed by Daesh (ISIS). The militants struck Tuesday in a hilly area about 50 kilometers from Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "There were...

  Zaman al-Wasl hopes that all material, documentation and information provided in the detainees reports would be used for the purposes of legal actions, proceedings, litigation, matters and international levels before courts, tribunals and human rights organisations....

Shares in Russian aluminum producer United Company Rusal slipped 0.7 percent in early trading on the Moscow exchange Wednesday after the U.S. Treasury extended the deadline for divesting from the sanctioned company. The U.S. Treasury in April imposed sanctions against billionaire Oleg...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior regime security officer killed Tuesday by unknown assailants in the desert town of Dumayr east of Damascus, local activists said.   General Nadim Kamel Asaad, the security officer of Dumayr military airport, was ambushed along with two Air Force Intelligence...

Afghan officials say more than 150 Daesh (ISIS) militants have surrendered to government forces in the face of an onslaught by the Taliban in the northern Jawzjan province. Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, the provincial police chief, said 152 fighters surrendered Wednesday, including...

More than 50 boxes handed over by North Korea to the United States last week appear to hold human remains from the 1950-1953 Korean War and are likely American, according to an initial forensic analysis, a U.S. official said Wednesday. A U.S. military transport aircraft on Friday flew...

The United Arab Emirates has begun a three-month visa amnesty program, hoping to resolve a Catch-22 for foreign workers who are fined daily for overstaying their permits but prevented from leaving until they pay the penalties. The government isn't releasing specific numbers, but says it...

Senior Iranian officials Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer of talks without preconditions as worthless and “a humiliation” after he acted to reimpose sanctions on Tehran following his withdrawal from a landmark nuclear deal. Separately, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said...

Japan says it's doing its utmost for the rescue of a Japanese journalist believed to be held in Syria after a video of a man appearing to be him was posted on the internet. Freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda was last heard from in Syria in 2015. Chief Cabinet Spokesman Yoshihide Suga...

Twin wildfires tearing through vineyards and brushy hills threatened some 10,000 homes Tuesday in Northern California – yet another front in the battle against the flames that have ravaged some of the state’s most scenic areas. The two fires straddling Mendocino and Lake counties had burned...

President Donald Trump stepped up his onslaught on federal special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election Tuesday, saying that his campaign did not collude with Moscow but that collusion is not a crime anyway. Trump launched his new attack hours before his former...

Russia on Tuesday said there were no plans for a major assault on Idlib, despite Bashar Assad earlier saying it was a priority to retake the province. "There's currently no question and can be no question of an operation, of a major assault on Idlib," Russia's Syria envoy Alexander...

Egypt says police have killed five suspected militants in a shootout north of Cairo. The Interior Ministry says Monday the militants were killed in an exchange of fire as security forces raided their hideout in the el-Obour district. It says another five militants were arrested....

The United Nations human rights office called on Saudi Arabia Tuesday to release all peaceful activists, including women held for campaigning to lift a long-time ban on driving. They included prominent women's rights advocate Hatoon al-Fassi, arrested in June as she was planning to take...

A Turkish court has rejected an appeal for U.S. Christian pastor Andrew Brunson to be released from house arrest during his trial on terrorism charges, state broadcaster TRT Haber said on Tuesday. Brunson's lawyer, Ismail Cem Halavurt, told Reuters he had not been notified of a court ruling.

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged Greece to be "realistic" about its economic goals, and reiterated the longstanding concern the country may yet need additional debt relief. The IMF board welcomed the agreement Athens reached with the European Union in June to reduce the...

Iran on Tuesday denied accusations by Tajikistan police that it was partly responsible for an attack that killed four tourists in the former Soviet republic. "The Islamic Republic of Iran denies any link with this terrorist attack and categorically denies that there is any military base...

The Syrian regime army and its allies gained full control of the Yarmouk Basin in southwestern Syria after routing Daesh (ISIS) militants, Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said on Tuesday. The basin borders Israel and Jordan.  The ISIS affiliate, Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, was formed...

 (Zaman Al Wasl TV)- In this report, Zaman TV shed the light on Yazan's suffering as his family seeks an immediate treatment in the Turkish hospitals. The 4-year-old boy suffers from Bubonic plague, known as the Black Death. Yazan's family fled the town of Sinjar in the...

An Israeli court jailed a 1948 Palestinian poet for five months Tuesday after convicting her of incitement to terrorism for a poem and remarks she posted on social media during a wave of Palestinian street attacks. Dareen Tatour, 36, posted on Facebook and YouTube a video of herself...