Kirkuk Airport will open for domestic and international flights in August, , an Iraqi official announced on Monday. Rakan al-Jubouri, the governor of Kirkuk, told reporters that experts from the Ministry of Transportation would arrive in Kirkuk shortly to confirm the date of the first...

Syrian regime forces on Monday announced the capture of the southern city of Daraa before advancing westward towards the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights region. The regime now controls Daraa and its eastern outskirts, while its forces have been deployed along most of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians killed and dozen more wounded in the US-led airstrikes on Daesh-held areas in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said Monday. 5 Iraqi displaced were among the victims in the attack on the town of al-Sousa in the eastern countryside....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A newly-returned refugee to western Qalamoun from Lebanese Arasal town was killed by assailants on Monday, such a crime may rise fears of thousands of refugees who believe that the situation is still not secure to return back, activists said. Three armed men opened fire...

Standing side by side with Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Donald Trump refused on Monday to blame the Russian leader for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, casting doubt on the findings of his own intelligence agencies and sparking a storm of criticism at home. On a day when he faced...

Former Egyptian military chief of staff General Sami Anan, who was detained in January after announcing plans to compete in a presidential election, is in critical condition in hospital, two sources close to his family said Monday. Anan, 70, was admitted to the intensive care unit at a...

A flight school in Saudi Arabia is opening its doors for women, following the end of a decades-long driving ban in the deeply conservative Muslim country where many social restrictions are easing. Oxford Aviation Academy, a leading trainer and crew recruiter, has already received...

A Syrian journalist working with a pro-regime television network has been killed in the southern province of Quneitra, where government forces are battling rebels, state media said Monday. Regime forces have been bombarding rebel-held territory in the region, retaking the area bordering...

A "handful" of powerful Libyans are ready to do "whatever they can" to block elections from taking place in the north African country, a UN envoy warned the Security Council Monday. The United Nations is hoping that presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in Libya later...

Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) on Monday denied reports that it was distributing content from television channel BeoutQ, which several international sporting bodies have accused of illegally airing their matches. Riyadh-based Arabsat said it had sent a letter to FIFA on...

Iran said Monday that if President Donald Trump wants to negotiate after pulling the United States out of the international deal meant to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, he'll have to initiate the call. The remarks by Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi came after...

Egypt's parliament has backed a draft bill that grants foreigners citizenship if they deposit the sum of at least 7 million Egyptian pounds ($391,000) in a local bank, save it there for five years and reside in the country during that period. The draft bill, passed on Sunday evening,...

Eight migrants including six children were found dead Monday after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a lorry container on the west Libyan coast, authorities said. Another 90 migrants recovered from the container were in critical condition and had been taken to a local...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in the Finnish capital Monday for a historic summit with U.S. leader Donald Trump. Putin flew to Helsinki for the summit a day after he attended the World Cup final in Moscow, and a lengthy convoy of black vehicles awaited him on the tarmac.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Families of 25 detainees in southern town of Kanaker were saddened to receive a call from the Syrian regime’s reconciliation committee to get clothes and personal belongings of their sons from the notorious Saydnaya prison near Damascus. The 25 men who revolted against...

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei has called for better ties with the world - though not with the United States, according his official website Monday. Khamenei met President Hassan Rouhani and his cabinet Sunday and spoke of the "necessity of developing diplomacy and relations with foreign...

About 200 protesters gathered at the main entrance to Iraq's Siba natural gas field on Monday, police and energy sources said, in unrest over poor services sweeping southern cities. The demonstration has not affected operations at Siba, run by Kuwait Energy PLC, Siba officials said.

Two protesters were killed in clashes with Iraqi security forces in the town of Samawa on Sunday, a police official said, amid growing unrest in southern cities over poor public services and widespread corruption. "Hundreds of people tried to storm a courthouse. Shots were fired towards...

   Syrian state media said Sunday that Israeli rockets had struck a Syrian military position near Nairab airport on the outskirts of the city of Aleppo. "The Zionist enemy...targets one of our military sites north of Nairab airport," the Syrian state news agency SANA said, quoting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Syrian forces made gains against Daesh in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, reaching a key stronghold for the radical group, local activists said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces backed by the US-led coalition airstrikes have reached the town of...