President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday announced early presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. Speaking at a news conference at the presidential complex following a meeting with opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahceli, Erdogan said: “Turkey’s...

The trade war between China and the U.S. is not likely to have a disruptive impact, according to top economists. "There is a low probability of disruptive trade war," Mickey Levy, chief economist for Americas and Asia at ‎Berenberg Capital Markets, told Anadolu Agency. Levy...

President Donald Trump's newly minted national security adviser John Bolton and Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo are among those spearheading a push to build a coalition of Arab military forces that could replace US troops in Syria and serve as a stabilizing force in the region once ISIS...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian army on Wednesday met with the negotiation committee in northern Homs and southern Hama a day after the regime forces halted major attack began on the opposition-held areas. The committee said a long-term ceasefire would be the ground for any further...

Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami on Wednesday arrived in Iraqi capital Baghdad for a visit not publicized in advance. An Iraqi army major-general told Anadolu Agency that Hatami planned to stay in Iraq for two days. “An official reception attended by Iraqi Defense Minister...

More than 500 children were released from armed groups in South Sudan since the start of 2018, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday. According to a statement issued by the UNICEF, at least 207 children were freed by armed groups in South Sudan on Tuesday. “This was the...

Britain’s decision to leave the European Union has caused the problem of the Irish border and Britain will have to solve it, the head of the European Council said on Wednesday. Donald Tusk said EU leaders agreed at last month’s Brussels summit on terms for a post-Brexit transition...

The recent U.S.-led airstrikes on the Assad regime were "necessary and proportionate", European Council President Donald Tusk said on Wednesday as he urged Russia and Iran to "stop playing games" in the region. Addressing members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg city as part of...

Iraqi courts have sentenced to death a total of more than 300 people, including dozens of foreigners, for belonging to Daesh (ISIS), judicial sources said Wednesday. The suspects are being tried by two courts, one near the former extremist stronghold of Mosul in northern Iraq and...

 German police raided sites across the country on Wednesday in a crackdown on human trafficking and forced prostitution, federal police said on Twitter. It said the raid, which also involved Germany's GSG9 special operations police unit, represented the biggest mass search in the...

Blockbuster action flick "Black Panther" will play at a cinema test screening in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, the first in a series of trial runs before movie theatres open to the wider public next month. The conservative kingdom lifted a 35-year ban on cinemas last year as part of a...

CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently traveled to North Korea to meet with leader Kim Jong Un, a highly unusual, secret visit undertaken as the enemy nations prepare for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim. Two officials have confirmed the trip to The Associated Press. They are...

International chemical weapons inspectors will probably not go into the Syrian town of Douma Wednesday, a U.N. source in Syria told Reuters, marking a further delay to efforts to investigate a suspected poison gas attack there. A U.N. security team entered Douma on Tuesday ahead of the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime halted its attack on rebel-held area in central Homs and Hama provinces after rebels cut the main water supplies to government areas, pro-regime activists said Tuesday. The regime has succumbed to the threat of cutting off drinking...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels in Dumayr east of Damascus will be evacuated to the town of Jarablus at the Turkish border as they agreed to lay down their arms and to hand over the town to the regime army, local activists said. The evacuation will begin on Thursday as regime forces gave...

Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, revealed a composite sketch Tuesday of the man she says threatened her in 2011 to stay silent about an alleged affair she had with President Donald Trump. “His face is burned in my memory,” Clifford told the hosts of ABC’s “The View” on...

James Comey’s book tour began in earnest on Tuesday with the former FBI director scheduled for no less than eight high-profile interviews to promote his much-anticipated memoir, “A Higher Loyalty,” over the next three days. Comey appeared live Tuesday on ABC’s “Good Morning America,”...

Israeli officials say Assad's remaining chemical weapons stockpiles did not suffer a fatal hit in the strike, nor was the Syrian president deterred from using them again; 'only a partial damage was caused to the chemical weapons stockpiles and launch capabilities,' one official says....

UN human rights experts on Tuesday slammed Israeli security forces for killing Palestinians near the Gaza fence by using firearms, including live ammunition. In a statement, the experts said: "UN human rights experts have condemned the continued use of firearms, including live...

International inspectors on Tuesday entered the Syrian town where an alleged chemical attack was carried out earlier this month, following delays by Syrian and Russian authorities. The fact-finding mission from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is investigating...