U.S. President Donald Trump said he will discuss trade with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, as both sides continue talks after failing to reach a consensus at talks in Beijing last week. Trump announced the planned telephone call in a post on Twitter, just days after a U.S....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran Tuesday of deploying "very dangerous weapons" in Syria as part of a campaign to threaten Israel. Iran, "openly calls, daily, for the destruction, the elimination of Israel from the face of the earth and practices unmitigated...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Iranian and Palestinian militias have taken ground from Daesh in the southern neighborhoods of Damascus, activists said Monday. Regime forces are seeking to end Daesh's years-long foothold in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 3400 rebels and their families are still awaiting the Turkish army's permission to enter the northern countryside of Aleppo after being held at Abu al-Zendan crossing, local activists said Tuesday. The first batch of rebels departed from the city of Rastan in...

Elections will be held in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of northern Iraq on Sept. 30, Kurdish broadcaster Rudaw said Tuesday, citing the region's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani. Rudaw is close to the Kurdistan Regional Government based in Irbil. A federal Iraqi election is set...

Armenia's governing Republican Party will provide the additional votes needed to elect a prime minister during a parliamentary vote Tuesday, a Republican Party lawmaker told Reuters. Opposition politician Nikol Pashinyan is the only nominee in the vote in parliament. "By the end...

At least two people were killed and several others where hurt when two trains collided late Monday in Germany, the national rail company said. The Deutsche Bahn network operator said that a commuter service hit a freight train between Ingolstadt and Augsburg in Germany's southern...

Google is likely to again put artificial intelligence in the spotlight at its annual developer’s conference Thursday. The company's digital concierge, known only as the Google Assistant, could gain new abilities to handle tasks such as making restaurant reservations without human...

A Russian Ka-52 attack chopper crashed Monday during a flight over eastern Syria as a result of a presumed technical malfunction, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Both pilots aboard the aircraft died as a result of the incident. "When carrying out a planned flight over the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and allied militias went on a looting spree in the newly evacuated towns in southern Damascus, local activists said Monday. After forcing rebel fighters from their towns of Beit Sahm, Babila and Yalda in Damascus, the regime troops pillaged private...

The “Defense of the People” Court is an almost intimate place. Three judges – two men and a woman – sat behind a large desk. The defendant, a former Daesh (ISIS) militant in Syria, faced them in a chair only a yard away, close enough for a conversation.A space heater in the center and...

Hundreds of rebels left the last major besieged opposition enclave in Syria Monday, with thousands more expected to follow, responding to months of pressure by a Russian-backed government offensive, the army, rebels and residents said. Opposition fighters agreed with regime forces and their...

A minister in Israel's security cabinet says it could topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he allows Iranian forces to attack Israel from Syria. Yuval Steinitz warned that if there was an attack, Mr Assad "must know that it is his end and the end of his regime". His...

U.S. President Donald Trump will not travel to Israel for the controversial opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, according to a White House statement released on Monday. Instead, the U.S. delegation to the May 14 event will include U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, as well as...

 A U.S. naval strike force led by aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman began sorties on May 3 against Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria, continuing missions by a U.S.-led coalition against the militants. The force joined the U.S. Sixth Fleet on April 18, nearly a week after the United...

The World Health Organization and other global agencies have launched the first oral cholera vaccination campaign in Yemen, aiming to reach millions of people in the war-torn country. More than 2,200 people have died of the waterborne infection over the past year in Yemen, with another...

European Union states are wrestling over how to reform their broken migration and asylum system, pushing for a deal at a leaders' summit in June over the highly-politicised issue that has defied resolution for nearly three years. The dispute has divided the bloc between southerners on...

 Palestinians have expressed outrage at teams from the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for taking part in the opening legs of the Giro d'Italia cycling race in Israel over the weekend, which they say undermined Arab solidarity with their cause. The presence of the Gulf states'...

Saudi Arabia will supply Sudan with millions of tonnes of oil for the next five years to help it tackle a growing energy crisis, the African country's oil minister said Monday. Sudan has been hit with an acute fuel crisis for weeks now, sending black market prices surging in Khartoum as...

The U.N. mission to Afghanistan says 30 children were among those killed in an Afghan air raid last month that officials said targeted insurgents. The U.N. released a report Monday saying that a total of 36 people were killed in the April 2 attack, which it said targeted a religious...