Chinese President Xi Jinping is in the United Arab Emirates meeting with top leaders as the two countries seek to deepen economic ties. Xi, his Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and other Chinese officials held morning meetings Friday with Abu Dhabi's powerful crown prince Sheikh Mohammad bin...

French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to fire the bodyguard who was caught on camera hitting a May Day protester after "new facts" emerged about the alleged misdemeanor, the president's office said on Friday. The man was also being questioned by police on Thursday over the...

U.S. officials say the United States is finalizing plans to evacuate several hundred Syrian civil defense workers and their families from southwest Syria as Russian-backed regime forces close in on the area. Two officials familiar with the plans said Thursday that the U.S., Britain and...

The United Nations refugee agency appealed to all sides in Syria on Friday to provide safe passage for 140,000 civilians displaced by fighting in the southwest so that they can receive aid and shelter. The UNHCR also said it was ready to discuss with Syria and Russia their plan to set up...

Khaled’s delicate hands were accustomed to cutting and styling hair in his Syrian hometown Harasta. Now, they’re hauling concrete and sweeping floors in order to repair homes ravaged by years of fighting.Mountains of rubble still block many of the main thoroughfares in Harasta, a town outside...

President Donald Trump rejected Thursday a proposal by Vladimir Putin to allow Russian officials to interrogate a former US ambassador and other American citizens, amid outrage across Washington that he would even consider it. While Trump originally called the idea an "incredible offer," and...

Former Syrian rebel commander Omar Melhem has nearly come full circle. He was a colonel in the Syrian regime army when the uprising against Bashar Assad began in 2011. He defected a year later and joined the armed revolt against the Syrian leader. Then, when Assad’s forces marched into...

The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Thursday he has received no new guidance from the Pentagon on cooperating with Russia in Syria following a U.S.-Russia summit that Moscow says focused heavily on Syria. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of U.S. Central Command, told reporters...

President Donald Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to Washington this fall for another round of summit talks.  White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Twitter that Trump agreed with Putin "to ongoing working level dialogue" between the U.S. and Russian...

Jordan's House of Representatives has given a vote of confidence to a new government that was formed after nationwide protests. Prime Minister Omar Razzaz's cabinet received a 79-42 vote Thursday after five days of deliberations by parliament's lower house. Six members were not present for...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl has obtained he names of detainees who have been freed due to the evacuation deal of the Shiite villages of al-Foua and Kefraya on Wednesday. About 1500 people, including 126 women and 75 children, were freed by the regime security and the Lebanese...

Anadolu Agency has obtained a copy of an Egyptian proposal for achieving reconciliation between Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas. In a Thursday phone call, Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’s political bureau told Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel that Hamas had agreed to Cairo’s...

Sudanese authorities have banned the international media from covering the visit of Egypt’s president to Sudan set to start on Thursday. Egyptian President Abdul Fatah al-Sisi is due to arrive for a two-day visit to Khartoum today to meet his Sudanese counterpart Omer al-Bashir....

Iraq's government may have muddled its way through violent street protests in the country's oil-rich south with promises of jobs and better services, but the root causes of this month's unrest remain almost intact and it could be just a matter of time before popular discontent boils over again....

Ten buses entered a village in Syria's Qunaitra province in the southwest on Thursday night to start evacuating insurgents to rebel territory in the north, state TV said. Damascus is set to recover control of the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in a major victory over...

At least 156 undocumented migrants have been rescued off Libya's northwestern coast, the country’s navy said early Thursday. In a statement, naval forces affiliated with Libya’s UN-recognized unity government said the migrants were rescued 26 miles off the coast of the northwestern city...

The European Union Thursday said it was concerned about a new Israeli law which declares that only Jews have the right of self-determination, and said it would complicate a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. Israel passed the "nation-state" law earlier on Thursday...

 Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to Abu Dhabi in his first trip to the United Arab Emirates as the leader of China and as the two countries look to strengthen trade ties and expand investment. It is Xi's first trip abroad since he was appointed to a second five-year term as...

French prosecutors said Thursday that they had opened a probe into an alleged assault by a senior security officer working for President Emmanuel Macron who was identified in a video hitting a protestor. Alexandre Benalla, who was head of security during Macron's campaign last year and...

Russian Embassy officials are to meet with a Siberian gun rights activist jailed in Washington on charges of spying on the United States. The Embassy said in a Facebook post that consular officials will meet with Maria Butina on Thursday for the first time since her Sunday arrest, and...