Five civilians were killed and 20 others injured in a Houthi attack in eastern Yemen’s Maarib city on Tuesday, according to a local police source. Houthi rebels fired a mortar shell on a crowded street in the city, a police officer told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to...

A coalition of activist groups on Monday announced a campaign to break up Facebook, arguing that the huge social network "has too much power over our lives and democracy." The groups created a website, and a Facebook page, to garner support for a petition to the US Federal Trade...

 (Reuters) - Embattled former Prime Minister Najib Razak arrived at the headquarters of Malaysia’s anti-corruption commission on Tuesday, which has ordered him to explain a suspicious transfer of $10.6 million into his bank account. The sum is just a fraction of billions of dollars...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After stranding in the displacement camps, the evacuees of southern suburbs of Damascus have welcome the holy month of Ramadan with a very tragic situation. The newly refuge what has the holy month a heavy guest on the residents of the camp of Deir Al Balout near...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) released a report  documenting the most notable violations by Russian forces since the start of its military intervention in Syria on September 30, 2015.   The report, which  entitled “The World Cup is Tainted with the Blood...

The United States Monday demanded Iran make sweeping changes – from dropping its nuclear program to pulling out of the Syrian civil war – or face severe economic sanctions as U.S. President’s Donald Trump’s administration hardened its approach to Tehran. Iran dismissed Washington’s...

After a year spent carefully cultivating two princes from the Arabian Peninsula, Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for President Donald Trump, thought he was finally close to nailing more than $1 billion in business. He had ingratiated himself with crown princes from Saudi Arabia and the...

Texas has more than 1.2 million licensed handgun owners who can openly carry their weapons in public. The state hosted the National Rifle Association's annual meeting two weeks ago. And until Monday, the governor's re-election website was raffling off a shotgun. Guns are so hard-wired...

Dozens of Palestinian protesters on Monday threw eggs and shoes at members of a U.S. delegation in the city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank to protest the recent relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene,...

A U.K. parliamentary committee has said the British government is risking the country’s national security by allowing “kleptocrats and human rights abusers to use the City of London to launder their ill-gotten funds to circumvent sanctions.” The report -- titled Moscow's Gold: Russian...

Paraguay officially relocated its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Monday, becoming the third country to do so after the U.S. and Guatemala.   An inauguration ceremony was attended by Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu....

The Syrian regime army pushed Daesh (ISIS) militants out of a south Damascus pocket Monday, effectively clearing all insurgents from around the capital, state television said. Pro-regime forces have been battling for weeks to recover al-Hajar al-Aswad district and the adjacent Yarmouk...

Iran asserted Monday it will keep its military forces in Syria at the request of the Syrian regime.   “Should the Syrians want us, we will continue to be there,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi told a press conference in Tehran cited by the official IRNA news agency....

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's remarks on Iran strategy showed that the United State was after regime change in the Islamic Republic, a senior Iranian official told Reuters Monday. "America wants to pressure Iran to surrender and accept their illegal demands ... his remarks showed...

A Turkish court Monday sentenced 104 people to life in prison for involvement in a failed military coup in 2016, the Hurriyet newspaper said, in one of the heaviest penalties given since the attempt. The court in the Aegean coastal town of Izmir handed 104 of 280 defendants "aggravated...

 A European Parliament meeting on Tuesday with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be broadcast live, parliamentary officials and the company said on Monday after controversy over plans for a closed-door hearing. Parliament President Antonio Tajani, who was criticized by legislators...

Britain's media regulator Monday opened a further three investigations into Russian news channel RT to see whether it had breached impartiality rules in its reporting. Ofcom has previously warned that RT producer TV Novosti could lose its right to broadcast in Britain after it said it...

The husband of an Iranian-British woman detained in Tehran says she now faces a new charge of "spreading propaganda against the regime." A statement Monday from him says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe learned of the new charge at a court hearing Saturday before Judge Abolghassem Salavati of...

The Taliban warned Kabul residents Monday to avoid "military centers" in the heavily fortified city, saying they are planning more attacks in the capital where civilians have long taken the brunt of the casualties. The militant group has issued such warnings to civilians before,...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas remained in hospital Monday, a spokeswoman said, a day after being admitted with complications following an ear operation. A spokeswoman for the Istishari Arab Hospital near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank said the 83-year-old was doing well but...