Russian jets struck an opposition held town in southwest Syria Sunday, opposition sources said, in the first air cover provided by Moscow to an expanding regime army offensive to recapture the strategic area bordering Jordan and the Israeli occupied Golan Heights. Two tracking centers...

Yemen's Houthis deployed additional forces in the main port city of Hudaida Sunday as an Arab-led military coalition moved closer to the city center in the largest offensive of the war, raising U.N. fears of a humanitarian catastrophe. The alliance launched its assault on the heavily...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led forces arrested about 100 people in eastern Deir Ezzor province, saying they have links with Daesh and the Syrian regime. The Intelligence service of the Syrian Democratic Forces has carried out major arrest campaign in former Daesh areas, tracking people...

Nearly 300 Turkish diplomats have sought asylum in Germany since a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016, a German newspaper reported Saturday. Data from the German interior ministry showed 1,177 Turks with diplomatic status or official credentials, including the spouses and children of...

Israeli naval forces arrested three Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, according to a Palestinian official.   “The three were detained while fishing close to Al-Sudaniyya area, north of Gaza City,” Nizar Ayyash, head of Gaza’s fishermen union, told...

Turkey is heading to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary and presidential elections with 56,322,632 registered voters and 180,065 ballot boxes across the country. Voting will start at 8.00 a.m. local time (0500GMT) and will continue through 5.00 p.m. local time (1400GMT)....

Tens of thousands of civilians have fled Syria’s southwestern Daraa province toward Israel-occupied Golan Heights following attacks by regime forces and Iran-backed Shia militias.   On June 20, regime forces and allied militias began a wide-scale military operation toward civilian...

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the mother organization of Pakistani militants, on Saturday announced Mufti Noor Wali Mahsud as the group’s new head. The announcement came 10 days after then-TTP head Mullah Fazlullah was killed along with four other militants in a U.S. drone strike in...

Syrian regime forces on Saturday made their first gains on the ground against rebel fighters in the southern province of Daraa after several days of intensified bombardment, an activist group said. Since Tuesday, regime troops have been ramping up shelling on opposition-held areas in...

Police in Kazakhstan detained dozens of people at an anti-government rally on Saturday organised by an exiled opponent of the veteran president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Mukhtar Ablyazov, a former tycoon and government minister, started staging rallies in the ex-Soviet republic earlier...

 Women will hit the roads in Saudi Arabia on Sunday with the lifting of the world's last ban on female drivers, long seen as an emblem of women's repression in the conservative kingdom. The move, ordered last September by King Salman, is part of sweeping reforms pushed by his...

A row over broadcasting of the World Cup in Saudi Arabia has escalated, with Riyadh denying an allegation by European soccer's governing body that a television channel it says is illegally showing matches is based in the kingdom. UEFA has threatened action over beoutQ's airing on...

Italy defiantly declared Saturday that its ports were closed to foreign-flagged rescue ships as German charity vessel Lifeline lay off the coast of Malta in limbo with more than 230 migrants aboard. Malta -- which is also refusing to take in the boat in a new diplomatic standoff with...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iraq has conducted an air strike on three houses in the town of Hajin in eastern Deir Ezzor province where Daesh (ISIS) leaders were meeting, killing 45 members of the militant group, its military said on Saturday. "Iraqi F-16 jets carried out a successful air...

A blast was heard at a rally in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa on Saturday following a speech by the country’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Reuters witness said. The rally was being held in support of the 41-year-old leader, who took office in April. “It was a grenade....

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Friday called for an immediate end to a military escalation in southwest Syria and a return to ceasefire arrangements agreed by Russia, the United States and Jordan. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley separately urged Russia to pressure its Syrian ally...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local council of al-Herak in southern Daraa province said the border town with Jordan has been under ' barbaric bombardment for the last three days. The town is a stricken, the council said as most of the residents have been fleeing towards the Jordanian...

The Turkish military said it carried out air strikes in northern Iraq Friday, killing 15 Kurdish militants. The strikes were carried out on the Gara region, the military said on Twitter. Turkey has recently stepped up strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) bases in northern...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 people, including 9 Daesh militants were killed in the US-led coalition airstrikes in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local sources said Friday. The strikes targeted the town of al-Sha'fah near the Iraqi border. The US-led attack failed to rule...

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose more tariffs on all European cars after the European Union’s decision to place a 25 percent tariff on U.S. products. "Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the U.S. and it great companies and workers by the European...