President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left for Azerbaijan and the breakaway northern part of ethnically divided Cyprus, making his first foreign trip since being sworn in as Turkey's first executive president with sweeping powers. Erdogan's trip on Tuesday came a day after he took the oath...

Several thousand Syrians have fled parts of the country's south held by an affiliate of the Daesh (ISIS) group due to fears of a government attack, an activist group said Monday. The pockets in Deraa province's western countryside held by Daesh are not included in a ceasefire deal agreed...

An Arab-led coalition has made no major gains in its offensive to wrest control of Yemen’s Hudaida port from the Iran-aligned Houthis, leaving it without the decisive increase in leverage it had sought against the group in U.N.-sponsored peace efforts. The alliance led by Saudi Arabia and the...

Women in Saudi Arabia have for the first time been allowed to become notaries, with 12 granted permission to start working in the profession, the justice ministry said Monday. The move comes amid a reform drive in the ultra-conservative kingdom that saw the authorities lift a ban on...

Yemen's state news agency says Interior Minister Ahmed al-Maysari demanded the closure of informal prisons in a meeting with an Emirati official, despite denials by the United Arab Emirates that it controls detention facilities in the country. The SABA news agency said he made the...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan Monday, promised support for President Ashraf Ghani's bid to start peace talks with the Taliban and repeated the United States itself would be willing to join the talks. The visit, coming at the end of a tour of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 jihadists were killed when they trapped in a landmine field near a regime army post in northern Idlib province, local activists said Monday. The fighters of Horras al-Din, or the Guardian of the Religion, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group, were trying late on...

The remains of 35 Srebrenica genocide victims were placed on a truck laden with flowers in the Bosnian city of Visoko on Monday morning for their final journey to a cemetery. The victims will be buried in the village of Potocari, northwest of the city of Srebrenica, on Wednesday to mark...

An Iraqi military spokesman says an airstrike has killed 20 Daesh (ISIS) militants outside the northern city of Mosul. In a statement issued on Monday, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool says the slain militants were hiding inside a tunnel in Badoush area northwest of Mosul. Rasool says...

Iraq's election commission began Monday the manual recount for more ballots from parliamentary elections held two months ago that were marred by allegations of fraud and irregularities. Iraq's May 12 balloting was the country's fourth national elections since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion...

Israel threatened a "harsh response" on Monday to any attempt by Syrian forces advancing against southern rebel areas to deploy in a Golan Heights frontier zone that was demilitarised under a 44-year-old U.N. monitored truce between the neighbouring foes. Syrian government forces backed...

The trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara, charged with fraud and breach of trust, has been postponed for three months, the court administration said Monday. Sara Netanyahu's trial, which was set to open at the Jerusalem magistrates court on July 19, will...

Morocco’s Interior Ministry on Monday denied reports about extracting the bodies of 45 African migrants, who were reported to have drowned off the country’s coast.  Media reports earlier said that 45 migrants from Sub-Saharan African countries had drowned on Sunday after their boat...

Key South Korean government figures insisted Monday that the peninsula remains committed to peace and denuclearization, despite North Korean criticism of the United States over the weekend. Pyongyang's Foreign Ministry accused the U.S. of making a "unilateral and gangster-like" demand...

Israeli forces rounded up 10 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said on Monday. The individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities”, the army claimed in a statement without elaborating....

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday banned Palestinian Al-Quds channel. In a decree signed on July 3, Lieberman said the ban was based on Israel’s anti-terrorism law. Under the decree, the channel will not be broadcast inside Israel The decree did not...

A delegation of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) on Monday headed for Syria to check on the conditions of Palestinian refugees in the war-torn country. The delegation is expected to meet Syrian regime officials and representatives of Palestinian factions during the...

The Syrian regime army and allied troops Monday laid siege to the rebel-held enclave in the southern city of Daraa and their troops were poised to gain complete control of the city, rebels said. Abu Shaima, a spokesman for the opposition in the city, said several thousand people were now...

Turkish military on Sunday completed its 11th round of patrolling in the northern Syrian city of Manbij as part of a deal with the U.S. to rid the area of the terror group YPG/PKK. In a message posted on its official Twitter account, the Turkish General Staff said both countries' forces...

On Sunday, Israeli Minister of Agriculture Uri Ariel stormed the flashpoint compound, for the first such tour by an Israeli official since 2015.  Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lifted a three-year ban on government officials and Knesset members visiting the...