OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Iran and Israel traded blame Sunday for an unprecedented, weeks-long surge in hostilities between their forces over Syria but played down prospects of a spillover into war. A showdown between the arch-foes has loomed since Feb. 10, when Israel said an armed Iranian...

GOMBAK (MALAYSIA) (AFP) -  An autopsy was being carried out Sunday on the body of a Palestinian professor who was gunned down in what his family claim was an assassination by Israel's Mossad spy agency. Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, 35, was killed in a drive-by shooting on Saturday,...

By Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl)- A few hours after Washington added his name to the list of criminal organization, “Nasief Barakt” has instantly become a very talked-about figure within a wide segment of the Syrian people. “Zaman al-Wasl” was able to collect some vital documented...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday issued a law to regulate procedures to seize, manage and dispose assets of convicted terrorists. The state’s official gazette said that al-Sisi ratified the law following parliamentary approval on April 17. A committee of seven...

At least four people including two suicide bombers were killed in an attack at a mosque on Sunday in northeastern Nigeria, police said. Two female suicide bombers sneaked into a mosque in Bama town of Borno State early morning and detonated explosives, killing themselves and two other...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime Palestinian paramilitary group mourned three officers said they had been killed by former al-Qaeda group as the regime stepped up efforts to wipe out the insurgency's last foothold south of the capital. The Militia of Fateh al-Intifada has engaged in...

A Sunday morning suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul killed over 30 people trying to register for fall elections, officials confirmed. “Thirty-one people were killed and over 50 are injured and undergoing treatment in various public hospitals,” Waheed Majroh, spokesman for the...

Iraqi warplanes are hunting “terrorists beyond Iraq’s border”, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Sunday.   “Iraqi Air Force is chasing terrorists and striking them beyond border to secure the country against their evil and plots,” al-Abadi said in a statement on the...

 Iraq has extended the deadline for foreign companies and investors to bid for the construction and operation of a new 100,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery near Mosul in the northern province of Nineveh, the oil ministry said on Sunday. Bidding documents provide for two investment...

Britain's health minister Jeremy Hunt threatened to impose new regulations on social media firms unless they did more to protect young people using their services. Hunt said the groups were "turning a blind eye" to the effect social media had on children's well-being - an accusation...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Reconciliation talks have been suspended between the Russian army and the negation committee in Northern Homs and southern Hama, sources said Sunday. The Russian military, which brokers the evacuation and ceasefire deal in Syria, has suspended the Sunday's meeting...

Iranian police have arrested a former prosecutor known as the "torturer of Tehran," who faces a two-year prison sentence over the death of prisoners following 2009 protests, Iranian media reported Sunday. The official website of the judiciary, Mizanonline.com, said former Tehran...

Air strikes pounded an insurgent-held area near Damascus Sunday, footage broadcast by state TV stations showed, as the Syrian regime stepped up efforts to wipe out the insurgency's last foothold near the capital. Thick clouds of smoke rose from the al-Hajar al-Aswad district as the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Amid a series of handovers to regime army around the capital, starting by eastern Ghouta and ending by Qalamoun region, the Syrian activists have raised a big question mark: Why Jaish al-Islam did not destroy its arsenal instead of giving up its M-600 rockets, TOW...

 Israel's defense minister said Sunday a Palestinian scientist shot dead in Malaysia was a rocket expert and "no saint", but dismissed suggestions by Hamas that Israel's Mossad spy agency assassinated him. Two men on a motorcycle fired 10 shots at Fadi al-Batsh, an engineering...

Saudi Arabia was finalizing regulation for the use of recreational drones, state media said Sunday, after a toy aircraft sparked security alarm as it hovered close to royal palaces in Riyadh. "The regulation for the use of remote controlled drones is in its final stages," the Saudi...

Iran warned Saturday it is ready to "vigorously" resume nuclear enrichment if the United States ditches the 2015 nuclear deal, and said further "drastic measures" are being considered in response to a U.S. exit. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters in New York...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish-led Raqqa Local Council has transferred two mass graves containing 500 bodies of civilians and Islamic State jihadists out of the city, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. The move came as the local organizations and civil community work to...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s King Salman was not present in his palace in Riyadh on Saturday when security forces shot down a toy drone in the area, a senior Saudi official told Reuters. “The king was at his farm in Diriya,” the official said, naming another area of the capital....

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — The leader of Turkey's main opposition party predicted Saturday that voters who backed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the past would "side with democracy" instead of a "dictatorship" during the next elections in June. Republican People's Party leader Kemal...