The leaders of North and South Korea signed a declaration on Friday agreeing to work for the "complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula". At their first summit in more than a decade, the two sides announced they would seek an agreement to establish "permanent" and "solid" peace...

Israel must stop the excessive use of force by its security forces along the Gaza border and must hold to account those responsible for the many deaths and injuries sustained by Palestinians in the past month, the U.N. human rights chief said Friday. U.N. High Commissioner for Human...

Algeria expects to get more illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa after the European Union made it more difficult to reach Europe by boat, a senior official in the country's interior ministry said on Thursday. A 2016 EU agreement with Turkey all but closed the sea route to the Greek...

 Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish authorities have detained four suspected senior Daesh (ISIS) extremists in an operation in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir. Anadolu Agency said Friday the suspects include the group's so-called "emir," or ruler, of Deir al-Zor, a major...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people, including commanders, activists and displaced, have been killed by assailants throughout the opposition-held Idlib province, local reporter said Friday. The wave of assassinations that rocked Idlib has reflected the deteriorating security...

Research by Chinese geologists suggests that the mountain above North Korea’s main nuclear test site has likely collapsed, rendering it unsafe for further testing and requiring that it be monitored for any leaking radiation. The findings by the scientists at the University of Science and...

Syrian families who had to flee Afrin because of terror are now returning to their homes in small groups. On Thursday, a group of 130 Syrians, children among them, applied to the Oncupinar Migration Office in the southeastern Kilis province, the Anadolu Agency correspondent in the...

Syrian state media is reporting that government forces have pushed into a Damascus neighborhood held by Daesh (ISIS) from different directions and captured buildings on several street blocks and tunnels used by the extremists. State news agency SANA said Thursday that dozens of Daesh...

Former CIA Director Mike Pompeo easily received Senate confirmation Thursday to helm the State Department. The 57-42 vote clears the way for Pompeo to assume the post following widespread opposition from Senate Democrats. In all six Democrats voted to confirm Pompeo to be the next...

British ambassador to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has described a briefing by Russia and Syria as “a stunt”, saying the U.K. will not attend it with its allies. “The OPCW is not a theatre,” Ambassador Peter Wilson said in a statement Thursday....

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis Thursday emphasized the value of certain aspects of the Iran nuclear agreement, even as President Donald Trump considering pulling out of the 2015 deal, which he has attacked repeatedly and this week called "insane." Without explicitly giving his opinion...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Displaced people of Tadef have refused a Turkish mediation to return back to their town in Russian-held territory in Aleppo province, local activists said Thursday. The town's representatives said the displaced of Tadef have fears that regime intelligence would...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An explosion rocked a weapon depot of the Kurdish YPG militia in northeastern city of Qamishli, local activist said Thursday. The explosion took place near the Turkish border late on Wednesday. No casualties were reported, according to activist Mahmoud al-Ahmed....

 Iraq has awarded Iraqi-owned United Arab Emirates-based Crescent Petroleum three exploration blocks in an oil and gas exploration and development contract auction Thursday and China's Geo-Jade won two. United Energy Group, also based in China, won one contract and a total of five...

Iran's supreme leader called on Muslim nations to unite against the United States, saying Tehran would never yield to "bullying," state television reported on Thursday. "The Iranian nation has successfully resisted bullying attempts by America and other arrogant powers and we will...

The Armenian parliament on Thursday called for an extraordinary session next week to vote for a new prime minister after the country was plunged into a political crisis with the abrupt resignation of its leader. Serzh Sargsyan, who ruled the country for ten years before moving into the...

Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency is reporting that authorities have ordered network providers to stop hosting the popular social-messaging app Telegram. The report Thursday comes after a top Iranian lawmaker said last month the government would block Telegram for reasons of...

A senior Vatican official who last week made a historic visit to Saudi Arabia says he told authorities in the kingdom, where non-Muslim worship is banned, that Christians cannot be considered second-class citizens. French cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran's trip, the first by such a senior...

British interior minister Amber Rudd faced calls to resign on Thursday after a scandal in which Caribbean immigrants who have lived legally in Britain for decades were being labelled illegal immigrants. For nearly two weeks, British ministers have been struggling to explain why some...

Britain's Prince Harry has asked his elder brother Prince William to be his best man at his wedding to U.S. actress Meghan Markle next month, his office said in a statement on Thursday. Harry was William's best man at his own glittering wedding to wife Kate Middleton in 2011....