The first trial of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe begins Tuesday with Paul Manafort, a former chairman of U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign, facing charges that he hid tens of millions of dollars earned in Ukraine in offshore accounts and defrauded banks for loans....

Yemeni officials say a roadside bombing in the southern city of Aden has wounded a prominent politician, his son and two other people. The officials say the attack took place Tuesday and targeted Aref Ahmed Ali of the Islah party, which is Yemen's branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, in...

Israeli MPs are to return from summer recess next week to discuss mounting criticism of a new law proclaiming the country the nation state of the Jewish people, parliament said Tuesday. President Reuven Rivlin has meanwhile reportedly said he will sign the law in Arabic, in an apparent...

A Reuters reporter heard at least two explosions in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, in an area close to shops and government offices, followed by gunshots. The blasts were the latest in a series that hit Jalalabad in recent weeks, killing and wounding dozens of people....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham  on Monday has arrested three men said they were coordinating with the regime military intelligence and with Russian's Hameimym base. The jihadist group that controls most of the northern Idlib province has waged campaign against Daesh...

Defender Harry Maguire will not leave Leicester City in the current transfer window despite rivals’ interest in securing the England international’s services, the Premier League club’s manager Claude Puel has said. Maguire impressed in his first season at Leicester, starting all 38...

A man was jailed for 17 years Tuesday for plotting a terrorist attack in Australia after being prevented from travelling to Syria, with the judge saying he continued to hold extremist views. Agim Kruezi, 25, was arrested in 2014 and pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court to one...

Australians welcomed on Tuesday the resignation of Archbishop Philip Wilson, who had resisted quitting for two months after he became the most senior Catholic cleric in the world to be found guilty of concealing child sex abuse. Wilson, 67, came under pressure from abuse victims, other...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he would be willing to meet Iranian leaders without preconditions to discuss how to improve ties after he pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal, saying, "If they want to meet, we'll meet." Asked at a White House news conference...

Turkish steelmakers are looking to expand in West Africa and other emerging markets in response to tariffs and planned quotas which threaten their sales to the United States and the European Union, a senior sector official said. Namik Ekinci, board chair for the Turkish Steel Exporters...

On Aug. 1, when face veils are banned in Denmark, Sabina will not be leaving her niqab at home. Instead, she will be defying the law and taking to the street in protest. In May, the Danish Parliament banned the wearing of face veils in public, joining France and some other European...

The United Nations says it received 70 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the second quarter of 2018 – 43 involving U.N. personnel, 24 involving people working for U.N. partner organizations and three pertaining to U.N.-authorized international forces. U.N. deputy spokesman...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local opposition figure said people of Idlib province are not leaving the northern province towards regime-held areas, denying Russian reports published on Monday.   Khaled al-Khalaf, from the local council of Abu al-Thuhour town, said media outlets loyal to Bashar...

Officials from Turkey, Russia and Iran were holding technical talks Monday in Sochi, Russia, ahead of a 10th round of Syria peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, slated for July 31st. The Astana talks will address the latest situation in de-escalation zones in Syria's Idlib, the return of...

German authorities say a fourth person has died from injuries suffered when a man drove his van into a crowd in the northwestern city of Muenster almost four months ago. Police told news agency dpa Monday that a 56-year-old man from the Netherlands died in the hospital Sunday. Twenty...

Egyptian police are investigating the death of a Coptic Christian bishop who was found dead in his monastery northwest of Cairo Sunday, the Coptic Church said. The body of Bishop Epiphanius "was handed to forensic investigators to determine the cause of the death and whether or not it...

Half of British voters support a referendum to choose between leaving with a deal that the government may clinch with the European Union, leaving with no deal or staying in the EU, Sky News reported on Monday, citing its own poll. The poll showed 40 percent opposed such a vote, while 10...

The presidents of Somalia and Eritrea on Monday signed an agreement to establish diplomatic ties after over a decade of animosity, in the latest fast-track rapprochement in the Horn of Africa. "The two countries will establish diplomatic relations and exchange ambassadors," said a...

Philippine police vowed Monday to revamp and intensify a fight against crime and drugs, a week after President Rodrigo Duterte promised no letup in a bloody crackdown that has alarmed the international community. "Surgical and chilling will be the trademark of the reinvigorated anti-illegal...

In a surprise address to the nation after months of silence, Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe emerged just hours before Monday’s historic election declaring that “I will not vote for those who have illegally taken power” and turning his back on the ruling party he long controlled. Slow...