Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump backed away from his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he simply misspoke when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election....

The European Union and Japan signed a landmark deal on Tuesday that will eliminate nearly all tariffs on products they trade. The ambitious pact signed in Tokyo runs counter to President Donald Trump's moves to hike tariffs on imports from many U.S. trading partners. It covers a third of the...

Dozens of buses reached two Syrian government loyalist villages under siege from insurgents in the northwest, as part of a deal to evacuate residents on Wednesday, state media said. Some 6,000 people will leave, emptying out the mostly Shiite villages of al-Foua and Kefraya, a commander...

Unidentified air strikes have killed 18 civilians in a rebel-held pocket of southern Syria as regime ally Russia presses talks for Damascus to retake the area, a monitor and local activists said Wednesday. The deadly strikes late Tuesday hit Nawa, the last town under rebel control in...

Thousands of people will be evacuated from two besieged pro-regime towns in Syria in exchange for the release of prisoners held in government jails, an activist group said Tuesday. Under a deal brokered by regime ally Russia and Turkey, Al-Foua and Kfarya, the last besieged towns in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 regime forces from coastal Latakia province have been killed in the last four weeks, pro-regime activists and news feeds said. Many of the slain soldiers were killed by Daesh and the US-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Syria and in southern Syrian as the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Iranian facility hit by Israel in northern Aleppo province on Sunday was severely damaged, according to fresh satellite images posted on Tuesday by the Israeli media. The regime-run media denied that the Israeli rockets had targeted Iranian base, saying Israel...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that Israel was prepared for “any scenario” in the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to an official statement. “We are in the midst of a battle that involves an exchange of blows and I can tell you that the [Israeli] army is ready...

At least 269 undocumented migrants were held across Turkey on Tuesday, according to security sources. In the northwestern province of Edirne, 98 migrants were rounded up in the Meric district as well as in the village of Yenikadin, said gendarmerie sources, who asked not to be named due...

All flights from Iran to Iraq’s southern city of Najaf have resumed following recent disturbances at Najaf’s international airport, according to Iranian officials.   “All flights to Najaf have resumed; the situation has returned to normal,” Riza Jaferzade, a spokesman for Iran’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by allied militias took strategic hilltop in southwestern Syria after four years of rebels control, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Capture of Tel al-Harra followed the regime control the town of al-Harra,a strategic territory near the...

British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a battle over trade in parliament on Tuesday, with pro-EU lawmakers hoping to influence her plans to leave the European Union a day after she bowed to demands from Brexit campaigners. May's vulnerability in parliament, where she lost her...

Russia's political and media establishment heralded talks between the Russian and U.S. leaders in Helsinki as a victory for Vladimir Putin in breaking down Western resolve to treat Russia as a pariah. "The West's attempts to isolate Russia failed," read the headline on a report on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians, including 8 children, were killed Tuesday in Russian airstrikes hit a town at the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights fence, local activists said. The strikes targeted a school in the town of Ayn al-Tineh hosts tens of displaced families who fled...

Suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants attacked Taliban fighters attending a funeral in northern Afghanistan Tuesday and killed at least 15 in the latest violence between the rival groups, officials said. Another five Taliban were wounded in the attack on a house in Sayad district in Sari Pul...

Dozens of Syrians who approached Israel's frontier fence on the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights Tuesday in an apparent attempt to seek help or sanctuary, began walking back towards nearby refugee encampments after being warned off by the Israeli military. "Go back before something bad...

Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted some 160 Europe-bound African migrants, including dozens of children and women, in the Mediterranean Sea near its shores. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim says a boat carrying 158 passengers including 34 women and nine children was stopped Monday off...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A new ceasefire deal would take place in the coastal region, Bashar al-Assad's heart town, brokered by Russia and Egypt, pro-regime news feeds said Monday. The deal comes as Assad eyes on his hometown in Latakia province to eliminate last rebel strongholds in the...

North Korea fulfilled another of its obligations to South Korea and the United States on Tuesday, after Pyongyang reached agreements with the allies in separate summits this year. The Koreas fully restored a military hotline in the western border area, according to Seoul's Defense...

A Palestinian youth has succumbed to wounds he sustained from Israeli fire during anti-occupation protests in the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry on Tuesday. Sari Al-Shawbki was shot and critically injured in the neck during protests near Gaza border two months ago, the...