Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sacked five local election officials Saturday on charges of corruption during the May 12 parliamentary election, a spokesman for the Independent High Elections Commission (IHEC) said. The move comes as Iraq conducts a manual recount of the ballots - a...

Zimbabwe's president promised a "thunderous victory" and his main challenger told him "bye-bye" as they rallied supporters one last time ahead of Monday's election in a country seeking to move past decades of economic and political paralysis. The vote will be a first for the southern...

A high school student has designed an online resource to help immigrant children and teenagers learn how to prepare for the possible deportations of parents or guardians. Sixteen-year-old Jody Bell, who will be a senior this fall at Greenwich High School, said she came up with the idea...

An Egyptian court sentenced 75 people to death on Saturday, including top figures of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in, state media reported. The Cairo Criminal Court referred the sentences to the Grand Mufti — the country's top theological...

Tourists and Britons hoping to go on vacation are enduring another day of travel trouble in Britain after severe weather led to flight cancellations and delays on cross-Channel trains. A week of extreme heat gave way to thunderstorms Friday, touching off travel delays on Saturday....

Pope Francis Saturday accepted the resignation as a cardinal of Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C. and one of the U.S. Catholic Church's most prominent figures, who has been at the center of allegations of sex abuse with minors and young seminarians. McCarrick was...

A Syrian Kurdish group said Saturday it had decided with the government to "chart a roadmap to a democratic and decentralized Syria", but there was no immediate confirmation from Damascus. Relations between the Syrian government of Bashar Assad and the Kurdish-led administration in the...

Gunmen raided a midwife training center in eastern Afghanistan Saturday in an ongoing attack that has left at least three people wounded and sparked fierce fighting with security forces, officials and witnesses said. At least 67 people, including students and teachers, were inside the...

Tens of thousands of Russians took part Saturday in rallies across the country organized by Communists to protest against highly controversial plans to hike the pension age. In Moscow, organizers said up to 100,000 people gathered for a permitted rally against the government-backed...

A British parliamentary committee says the government should increase oversight of social media like Facebook and election campaigns to protect democracy in the digital age. The recommendation will be made Sunday in a scathing report on fake news, data misuse and interference by Russia....

An Arab-led coalition launched heavy airstrikes on Yemen’s main port city of Hudaida Friday, in an apparent resumption of military operations on the city after the Houthis attacked two Saudi oil tankers, residents said. The coalition on July 1 halted an attack on the Houthi-held city to aid...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 1000 detainees from Darayya, the western suburb of Damascus, were tortured to death in the Syrian security chambers, according to local activists who affirmed that the Intelligence Services had delivered the list of dead detainees to the civil registry office in...

President Donald Trump thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday for "fulfilling a promise" to return the remains of U.S. soldiers missing from the Korean War, as a U.S. military plane made a rare trip into North Korea to retrieve 55 cases said to contain remains. Close to 7,700...

A Syrian Kurdish official is in Damascus this week for talks with Syrian regime officials at the head of a delegation including members of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, an official said, their first declared visit to the capital. The visit points to moves by the Kurdish-led...

Russia Friday urged world powers to help Syria's economic recovery and the return of refugees as its Damascus ally pressed on with a campaign to re-take territory in the seven-year war. Russian Deputy Ambassador Dmitry Polyansky appealed for an end to unilateral sanctions against Syria...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Baghdad and cities across southern Iraq Friday in the latest protests against corruption, social ills and political leadership. Surrounded by a cordon of anti-riot personnel equipped with electric batons, protestors in Baghdad's Tahrir Square...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have retreated partially from two neighborhoods in southern Daraa city due to deal brokered by Russian and the opposition groups, local sources said Friday. The regime troops have withdrawn al-Manshiyah and Sajneh neighborhoods to their barracks in...

The Syrian regime has held celebrations in the southern town of Qunaitra adjacent to Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after recapturing it from armed groups who controlled it for more than four years. On Friday, an Associated Press reporter visited the town on a government-organized trip...

An Arab-led coalition launched heavy air strikes on Yemen's main port city of Hudaida Friday, in an apparent resumption of military operations on the Red Sea city after the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement attacked two Saudi oil tankers. Residents said coalition warplanes had begun their...

 Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man during Friday protests at the Gaza-Israel border, the health ministry in Gaza said in a statement. It named the dead man as Ghazi Abu Mustafee, 43, and said he was shot in the head near the border fence, east of Khan Younis in the...