A stirring film about Kurdish women fighters taking on Daesh (ISIS) militants sparked a furious row between critics at the Cannes film festival Sunday, with some being accused of misogyny. "Girls of the Sun", which follows a platoon of Yazidi women battling the extremists who had...

 Israel's government on Sunday gave the green light to a controversial cable car project planned to run between West Jerusalem and the Old City in annexed east Jerusalem. The decision came on the eve of the US moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to the disputed city of Jerusalem....

Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi on Sunday ordered Iraqi forces to enforce security in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, following violent protests in the wake of the country’s parliamentary polls. In a statement issued by his office, al-Abadi said he ordered security forces in Kirkuk and...

Gunmen attacked the headquarters of the Gorran Movement in Iraq’s northern city of Sulaimaniyah on Saturday. The attack came shortly after the movement complained about alleged vote violations during Iraq’s first parliamentary election since the defeat of the Daesh terrorist group last...

A public office in eastern Afghanistan came under an armed attack on Sunday, officials said. Gunmen entered the general finance directorate in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan, said Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor. Security...

A fourth convoy of buses carrying people from the northern countryside of Homs province in western Syria arrived Sunday in Aleppo’s western countryside and Idlib province, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground in Idlib. The convoy of 33 buses carried 1,500 from...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s coalition is leading in the country’s parliamentary election, a coalition spokesman told Anadolu Agency. “Preliminary results show that the Victory Coalition is leading the polls,” Hussein al-Adli said on Sunday. On Saturday, Iraqis voted...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reiterated on Sunday that Tehran would remain committed to its 2015 nuclear deal if its interests can be protected and said the U.S. withdrawal from the accord was a "violation of morals". "The U.S. withdrawal ... is a violation of morals, the correct...

Suicide bombers on motorcycles and including a woman with children targeted Sunday Mass congregations in three churches in Indonesia's second-largest city, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens in one of the worst attacks on the country's Christian minority, police said. The...

Yemen's Aden refinery is seeking 150,000 tons of oil products for the local market in two separate tenders, the state news agency SABA said Sunday. The refinery is seeking 30,000 tons of unleaded petrol and 30,000 tons of diesel in its first tender, as fuel supplies ran low because of...

The international relations representative of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, known as Ikhwan, on Saturday said the brotherhood is ready for dialogue with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to find a political solution in the wake of the 2013 military coup. "We are ready and open to...

Iraq’s parliament speaker on Saturday objected to what he said were electoral violations seen during the weekend general elections. Speaking at a press conference, Salim al-Jabouri, who leads the Civil Society for Reform Party, urged the Independent High Electoral Commission to...

We would rather die than forsake Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque, Nureddin Nebati, a ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's deputy and head of the Interparliamentary Jerusalem Platform, told Anadolu Agency on Saturday. Nebati made the remarks on the sidelines of a symbolic "Jerusalem...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces and the Iraqi army have encircled a border town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, activists said Saturday. The joint operation between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Iraqi army followed coordination with the...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 civilians killed and twenty others wounded in a car bomb attack hit the northern city of Idlib, local activists said Saturday. The blast targeted a crowded district in the city which under the control of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior rebel commander has escaped an assassination attempt in the southern province of Daraa, local activists said Saturday. The improvised explosive device targeted Wasim al-Zarqan, commander of Burkan Horan Brigades, in the town of Kafr Shams, according to...

A third convoy of buses carrying people from the northern countryside of Homs province in western Syria arrived Saturday in Aleppo’s western countryside, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground.   The convoy of dozens of buses carried 3,500 from northern Homs as...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians were killed late on Friday in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes against last Daesh strongholds in Hasaka provinces, activists said. The strikes east of al-Shaddadi town have killed 8 family members, mostly women and children.   ...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS car bomb killed two people in Raqqa city when the Kurdish forces were removing rubble in the war-ravaged city in northeastern Syria, local media outlets said Saturday. Three more civilians were wounded due to the blast in Tel Abyad Street. Since the fall...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has protested to Moscow after a Russian state-affiliated broadcaster organized a survey over ownership of a disputed Red sea border triangle claimed by Sudan. The protest came ahead of a meeting in Moscow between the foreign and defense ministers of Russia and...