The poisoning of former Russian double agent in England will damage Britain-Russia cooperation in ensuring security for the soccer World Cup being staged in Russia from June, RIA cited a Russian deputy foreign minister as saying Friday. "Indeed, it will have an impact," Oleg Syromolotov...

The U.N. humanitarian agency says 80 people have been reported dead and hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes since March due to heavy rainfall in Kenya. The U.N. statement says 244,400 people have been displaced, the majority of them in Tana River, Kilifi and Mandera...

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Friday named senior lawmaker Muharrem Ince, known for his fiery and impassioned rhetoric, as its candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in June 24 elections. The leader of the CHP Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who had already...

Syrian rebels Friday were surrendering their heavy weapons after reaching a new deal with the government for a central swathe of territory, a war monitor said. Opposition fighters agreed with regime forces and their allies to a ceasefire deal earlier this week for parts of Syria's...

Less than two months ago the State Department hosted members of the White Helmets at Foggy Bottom. At the time, the humanitarian group was showered with praise for saving lives in Syria. "Our meetings in March were very positive. There were even remarks from senior officials about...

(AP)-  The company said Thursday that it recently discovered a bug that stored passwords in an internal log in an unprotected form. Twitter says there’s no indication that there was a breach or that any of the passwords were misused. But as a precaution, Twitter recommends users...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes on Thursday have conducted new raids on the eastern countryside of Daraa province, in a new breach to the US-Russia de-escalation zone agreement, local activists said.   Daraa-based activist Dia'a al-Heraki told Zaman al-Wasl that a dozen of...

Croatian police have arrested a Bosnian citizen who may be extradited to Tunisia over his alleged involvement in the killing of a Tunisian in 2016 who Palestinian group Hamas said was one of its members, state news agency Hina reported Thursday. "A Bosnian national was arrested March 13...

A huge dust storm and lightning strikes killed at least 125 people across India which braced Thursday for more wild weather. Dust clouds plunged swathes of north India into darkness as choking winds of more than 130 kilometers per hour swept across the states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan...

A team of elite U.S. Green Beret commandos deployed to the Saudi Arabian border of Yemen last year to help find and destroy Houthi rebel missile caches, the New York Times reported Thursday. Since Yemen's brutal conflict erupted three years ago, Houthi rebels have fired multiple...

Global chemical arms inspectors are to take the unprecedented step of exhuming some bodies of victims in the Syrian town of Douma as they work to verify last month's alleged chemical attack, a media report said Thursday. Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons chief Ahmet...

An Israeli court Thursday convicted an Arab poet of online incitement to terrorism for using a poem as the soundtrack to images of Palestinians in violent confrontations with Israeli troops. Dareen Tatour, 36, posted to Facebook and YouTube a video of herself reading out her poem...

Iran warned Thursday that it will quit a landmark nuclear deal with world powers if President Donald Trump pulls the United States out of the accord. "If the United States withdraws from the nuclear deal, then we will not stay in it," Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign policy advisor to...

Libya's Foreign Minister Mohammad Taher Siala discussed the conflict in his country with the secretary of Russia's security council on Thursday in Moscow, the council said. Siala and Nikolai Patrushev also discussed counter-terrorism measures, the statement said.

Syrian rebels began pulling out of an enclave they have surrendered in south Damascus on Thursday, but a few fighters in another besieged area near Homs shelled regime areas after their groups agreed to quit. The enclaves in south Damascus and near Homs are the only two besieged areas...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Interior Minister said the regime is working on issuing new ID’s to avoide forgery, such a move endorses the fears of demographic change and the settlement of Bashar al-Assad’s loyalists in the Sunni-sect dominated areas. Mohammad al-Sha’ar made his statement to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb killed at least 4 civilians in the town of al-Dana in northwestern Idlib province, police officer told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. The blast targeted local employees working for the International Rescue Committee (IRC) while they were heading their office in...

U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday said his lawyer Michael Cohen did not use presidential campaign funds to pay Stormy Daniels as part of a contract that he said was aimed at stopping the adult-film star from making "false and extortionist accusations" about an affair. "Money from the...

The Arab League says it supports Morocco's decision to sever ties with Iran over its alleged support for the Polisario Front in the disputed Western Sahara. Tehran has denied supporting the pro-independence group. The spokesman for the Arab League's secretary-general Mahmoud Afifi said late...

Turkey's inflation rate edged up to almost 11 percent in April, official statistics showed Thursday, adding to fears that the economy is overheating less than two months ahead of elections. Consumer prices rose 10.85 percent in April from the same month the year earlier, the Turkish...