Fire officials in Greece raised the death toll from a wildfire that raged through a coastal area east of Athens to 91 and reported that 25 people were missing Sunday, six days after Europe's deadliest forest fire in more than a century. Before the national fire service updated the...

Check  the names of 8000 detainees who were tortured to death by the Syrian regime security.  The list has been obtained in association with the Syrian Violations Documentation Center . It inclues names of 7953 victims of different ages, including 125...

Heavy fighting along Yemen's west coast between pro-government forces and Shiite rebels in recent days has left dozens dead from both sides, Yemeni officials and witnesses said Sunday. Government forces, backed by an Arab-led coalition, have been advancing in the area inrecent weeks as...

Pro-Syrian regime forces advanced in a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in southwest Syria Sunday, a military media center run by Damascus' ally Hezbollah reported, despite a threat to hostages the militants seized last week. Syrian state television broadcast footage from near the scene of the...

A polar bear was shot dead after attacking a German cruise ship worker on Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, the authorities said Sunday. The unnamed man in his 40's suffered head injuries shortly after landing on Spitzbergen island. He was accompanying a tourist...

Pope Francis is urging everyone to combat the "shameful crime" of human trafficking, noting that it's often linked to migrant smuggling. In remarks Sunday to the public in St. Peter's Square, Francis decried that many adults and children are trafficked into slavery for forced labor, sex...

Iran's top security body has approved the release of opposition figures Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for seven years for leading mass protests in 2009, a family member told local media. "I have heard that the decision to lift the house arrest was approved...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadist group on Sunday has arrested 13 people over links with the Syrian regime, saying they seek reconciliation deal with the Assad forces, local sources said. The arrest raids targeted the town of al-Hubait in the southern...

Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, trying to move beyond a bitter dispute over migrant policy that threatened the coalition, has fallen to its lowest level since 2006, a poll showed Sunday. The Emnid poll published in Bild am Sonntag showed Merkel's Christian...

A Palestinian teenager released by Israel Sunday after completing a prison term for kicking and slapping an Israeli soldier urged continued struggle against Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a call echoed by the Palestinian president. Ahed Tamimi, 17, became a heroine to Palestinians...

Two Palestinian fighters were killed in the eastern Gaza Strip early Sunday, their movement said, in an explosion during what residents said were preparations to launch a projectile at Israel. The left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) named the two members of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel commanders killed overnight by unknown assailants in the town of Maarrat al-Nou’man in northern Idlib province.  Abu Zaid al-Jammal and Osama al-Jamqra, former military commander in Alwyat Suqour al-Sham were killed when an armed group opened fire on them...

Iran's currency hit a record low on Sunday of 100,000 rials to the dollar amid a deepening economic crisis and the imminent return of full U.S. sanctions. The unofficial rate stood at 102,000 rials by midday, according to Bonbast, one of the most reliable sites for tracking the Iranian...

 Zaman al-Wasl will publish on Sunday lists including 8000 detainees tortured to death in the Syrian regime security chambers. The lists included names of tens of women and children.    Death certificates have been sweeping the registry offices. Most of the...

Tunisia on Saturday said it would take in 40 migrants, including two pregnant women, rescued by a commercial vessel. The ship, the "Sarost 5" a Tunisian flagged supply boat, has been blocked for two weeks from docking off Zarzis in southern Tunisia. "For humanitarian reasons, we...

Turkey’s Assyrian community has welcomed a new regulation allowing free allocation of places of worship such as synagogues, churches, and monasteries to minority foundations. Yilmaz Hicbezmez, deputy head of an association linked to the Mor Hananyo Monastery -- also known as the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime artillery on Saturday pounded opposition areas in coastal Latakia province and Jisr al-Shughour region near the Turkish border.  Two women and four children, mostly from the same family, were wounded due to heavy artillery to the towns of...

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has returned to Belgium after Spain’s Supreme Court dropped an international arrest warrant for him. “This will not be my last stop. This is not the end of my journey. I will travel around Europe to the four corners of the continent to defend our...

Iran plans to offer price and tax incentives to private investors to take over idle state projects and help boost the economy, state media reported on Saturday, as the country faces likely U.S. sanctions and the exit of many foreign companies. In May the United States pulled out of a...

The trade relationship between the United States and Europe is improving, German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner said Saturday, but there is no guarantee the bloc will buy the quantity of soybeans that Washington expects. U.S. President Donald Trump and Jean-Claude Juncker,...