(Zaman Al Wasl)- Evacuation operations have been suspended for three days in central Hama and Homs provinces as the Turkish authorities say areas under its control are overloaded with displaced and the relief organizations can not afford the proper service for new displaced batches after...

Syria's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Israel's latest move towards "direct confrontation ... indicates the start of a new phase of aggression against" Damascus. "This aggressive conduct by the Zionist entity ... will lead to nothing but an increase in tensions in the region,"...

Staging a made-for-TV, still-of-the-night arrival ceremony, President Donald Trump welcomed home three Americans freed by North Korea and declared their release a sign of promise toward his goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. Speaking early Thursday on an air base tarmac with...

The Russian military says Israel fired more than 70 missiles at Iranian facilities in Syria and that Syrian air defenses shot down more than half of them. Israel says it struck dozens of Iranian targets overnight in response to a rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the Golan Heights....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ten people from the same family have been killed in Russian airstrikes on the northern province of Idlib, rescuing group said Wednesday. The deadly strikes hit the town of Maarzita in the southern countryside of Idlib, Civil Defense said. Idlib has been a haven...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said it had tracked several sleeper cells, mostly run by women, in the northern province of Idlib, the group's news agency said Thursday. The cells have been recruited by Russia and are operating in the city of Idlib and its western...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he expects to be sworn in as prime minister on Thursday because his opposition coalition has the support of the majority of members of Parliament. Mahathir said his coalition will have the support of 135 members of Malaysia's...

Immediately on returning from North Korea on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will embark on talks with allies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia to try to persuade them to press Iran to curb its nuclear and missile programs, U.S. officials said. The open question is whether...

Israel launched repeated rounds of rocket fire into Syria early on Thursday, Syrian state media reported, after Israel’s military said Iranian forces in Syria had shelled one of its outposts near the border. GThe scale of Israeli rocket fire appeared to be far higher than in previous...

Iranian forces based in Syria fired 20 rockets at Israeli front-line military positions in the Golan Heights early Thursday, the Israeli military said, triggering an Israeli reprisal and further escalating heightened tensions. The Israeli military said its Iron Dome rocket defense...

Israel's army says Iranian forces in Syria fired about 20 projectiles at Israeli positions; some were intercepted.

Just as U.S. President Donald Trump reached one hand out to North Korea, he yanked the other back from Iran. The president’s dramatic withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal was the most vivid illustration to date of how his impulses and capricious instincts tend to pull him in paradoxical...

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor requested help from the United Nations Security Council Wednesday to arrest three fugitives in Libya, including military strongman Khalifa Haftar and a son of the late leader Moammar Gadhafi. During a U.N. Security Council meeting,...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will announce the site for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un within three days and it will not be held at the demilitarized zone along the border between the two Koreas. "It will not be there," he told reporters at the start of a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four people, including two children, have been drowned in floods in Daraa and Hasaka provinces in last 48 hours, Civil Defense and activists said. The Civil Defense rescuing group said two young men had drowned when they tried to swim in ponds filled by the floods water...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Moscow Wednesday to meet with President Vladimir Putin and discuss military coordination amid new strikes in Syria blamed on Israel. Together with Putin, Netanyahu toured a parade celebrating the anniversary of the World War II...

French President Emmanuel Macron and Iran's Hassan Rouhani agreed Wednesday during a phone call to work toward "the continued implementation of the nuclear deal" despite the U.S. decision to withdraw from the agreement, the French presidency said. "The French and Iranian presidents...

An explosion killed at least five people and wounded 10 Wednesday in a market for the stimulant leaf khat in southern Somalia, police and residents said. The blast, whose cause was not immediately clear, occurred in the busy market in the town of Wanlaweyn in the Lower Shabelle region,...

A shelling and a car bomb blast in Syria's capital Damascus killed two people and wounded several others Wednesday, state television said. It reported "two killed and 14 wounded in terrorist attacks on Damascus Tower and Maysat Square". The shell struck at the tower in the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 1100 displaced people from southern Damascus are still awaiting the Turkish army's permission to enter the northern town of al-Bab in Aleppo province, activists said Wednesday. The Turkish-backed forces said no place is available for the fifth batch of...