Germany continues to support the Group of Seven communique despite U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to back out of the declaration drawn up at a summit in Canada, a government spokesman said on Sunday. "Germany stands by the jointly agreed communique," Steffen Seibert said in a...

 An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked a checkpoint in the southern Kandahar province, killing five security forces The attack late Saturday comes ahead of a three-day cease-fire timed to coincide with the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of...

Yemeni security officials say gunmen shot dead a pro-government army colonel in the southwestern city of Taiz. They say Col. Radwan el-Wassabi, who was backed by the United Arab Emirates, was shot dead and at least four of his guards were wounded late Saturday in central Taiz. The city...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State's killing propaganda has surfaced again in Syria after two orange-dressed people were hanged at a bridge in the northern province of Idlib, activists said Sunday The victims were kidnapped on Thursday near the town of Ariha.  Daesh sleeper...

For decades, the collective Arab dream has been a "free Palestine". Since the 1950s, the Palestinian cause has been the pinnacle of Arab aspirations and the centre of the pan-Arab movement. Arabs and Palestinians identified with each other through a shared language, similarities in culture and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key refugee councils in the Lebanese border town of Arsal assured that UNHCR had never discouraged them from returning, calling on the Lebanese government and the United Nations’ refugee agency to find common ground over the crisis as more than 60,000 Syrians live in Arsal....

The number of Iraqi civilians killed in acts of violence since the beginning of the year has significantly dropped, largely due to defeat of Daesh (ISIS), the United Nations and a monitor have said. Reports released this week by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the...

Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq detained a 20-year-old Iraqi man Friday on suspicion of raping and murdering a 14-year-old Jewish girl in Germany, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement. Seehofer told reporters the Kurdish security forces had taken him into...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Saturday have seized ground from Daesh in northeastern Hasaka province, taking advantage form a heavy aerial bombing by the International Coalition, activists said. The YPG-led alliance took two villages near the town of al-Shaddadi...

At least two Syrian civilians were tortured to death by the YPG militia organization in northeastern Hasakah province, local sources said on Saturday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to security reasons, told Anadolu Agency the civilians were abducted a month ago...

The party of Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf announced Saturday that he will run for a seat in parliament in July 25 national elections. The move comes after the country's Supreme Court conditionally allowed Musharraf to return from Dubai, where he has been living...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- In this report, Zaman al-Wasl TV covers the notable work of the Epidemiological Monitoring Program which provides the  proper  response to epidemiological diseases in the opposition-held areas. The diseases are included in a list identified by the World...

(AFP) - After giving up on getting help from Syrian Kurdish authorities, Ahmed Saleh relied on relatives abroad to repair his home in Kobane after it was heavily damaged in a battle against jihadists. Much of the border town along Syria's northern frontier with Turkey was left in ruins...

Turkey has completed the construction of a 764-kilometer (475-mile) concrete wall along its border with Syria, according to a Turkish official on Saturday TOKI, the state backed housing developer, built 564 km (350 mi) of the wall, while the governorates of the border provinces built...

Security in Singapore has already been tested before the island nation hosts next week’s unprecedented U.S.-North Korea summit as Friday saw local officials interrogate two South Korean journalists and a Kim Jong-un impersonator. The two reporters were questioned by police for allegedly...

Canada flatly rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s request Friday to allow Russia back into the G7 fold. Before leaving for the Group of Seven Summit in Quebec this morning, Trump mused to reporters in Washington that it was time to re-admit Russia. Vladimir Putin was booted from the...

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu on Saturday said Turkey is capable of taking control of northern Iraq's Mt. Qandil region whenever it wants. In an interview to CNN Turk, Soylu said: "Turkey will see its heroes in Qandil very soon. It is only a matter of timing." Soylu noted...

German prosecutors have issued an international arrest warrant for a top Syrian intelligence officer accused of overseeing the torture and murder of hundreds of detainees, a media report said Friday. German news weekly Der Spiegel said Jamil Hassan, the head of Syria's notorious air force...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis warned Friday it would be a "strategic blunder" to pull out of Syria before U.N.-led peace efforts had made progress. A U.S.-led coalition is conducting military operations against Daesh (ISIS) in Syria and Mattis said they must not leave a "vacuum" that...

A senior Iranian official said Friday that Tehran "cannot wait forever" for the confirmation of the 2015 nuclear accord between Iran and world powers that is hanging in the balance after the United States withdrew. Speaking to AFP in Lithuania's capital Vilnius, Iran's vice president...