Iran will soon resume direct flights from Tehran to Irbil, a city in Iraq's Kurdistan, an Iranian official said Tuesday, almost six months after the Baghdad government imposed an air ban on the region in retaliation for an independence vote. Flights will start again on April 27, Morteza...
Turkish officials say Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for a scaling down of tensions over the chemical weapons issue in Syria during a call with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani. The officials said Erdogan and Rouhani held a telephone conversation on Tuesday during...
China announced plans Tuesday to allow full foreign ownership of automakers in five years, ending restrictions that helped to fuel its escalating dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump and strained relations with other trading partners. The change would scrap rules that require global...
Germany has a special intermediary role allowing it to keep open the window for dialogue with Russia on the Syrian crisis, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday. At a Berlin news conference alongside Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Maas also said the stalled...
Three Iranian security personnel were killed by militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan on Tuesday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said. An Iranian police officer was killed in an ambush on a border post in the city of Mirjaveh in Sistan-Baluchestan province,...
Russia's state telecommunications regulator said Tuesday it had sent requests to Google and Apple asking them to remove the Telegram messenger service from their application stores, the Interfax news agency reported. The watchdog, Roskomnadzor, said on Monday it had begun blocking...
A false alarm led to Syrian air defense missiles being fired overnight and there was no fresh attack on Syria, a commander in the regional military alliance that backs the Syrian government told Reuters. Syrian state TV reported overnight that anti-aircraft defenses had shot down...
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Tuesday official institutions will evaluate the Nationalist Movement Party's (MHP) call for an early election. MHP leader Devlet Bahceli earlier suggested the presidential election, scheduled for November 2019, could be brought forward to...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four people, including a child, were killed and 50 were wounded by an improvised explosive device rocked a demonstration condemning the US-French-British airstrikes in northeastern city of Raqqa, local activists said Monday. No rebel group claimed the...
The Pentagon on Monday denied any involvement in an attack on a Syrian air base outside Homs city, not far from where U.S., U.K. and French missiles struck early Saturday morning. “There are no US or Coalition operations in that area [Homs]. We don’t have anything additional to...
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday Israel will not allow Russia to curb its activities in Syria, according to Israeli media reports. Speaking to Israel's Walla news website, Lieberman said Israel had successfully avoided “direct friction” with Moscow and was...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes killed 6 civilians and wounded dozen in a de-escalation zone in central Homs province, rescuing group said Monday. The White Helmets organization said the strikes targeted the town of al-Za'faraneh in the northern countryside. In...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke over the phone on Monday evening about the recent developments in Syria. According to the presidential sources, two leaders focused on ensuring Syria's territorial integrity and the political process in the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will travel to the Syrian city of Douma Wednesday, Russian Defence Ministry official Igor Kirillov said at a news conference in The Hague Monday. The United States have accused Russia of...
Britain's decision to conduct air strikes against Syria was in the country's national interest, and not the result of pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Theresa May told parliament Monday. "We have not done this because President Trump asked us to, we have done it...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S. embassy in Amman warned the key rebel alliance in southern Syria of taking any military action against the regime forces may undermine the U.S.-Russian brokered de-escalation zone agreement, a Saudi daily reported. According to the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, a...
The White House said Monday it is considering additional sanctions on Russia following a suspected poison gas attack in Syria, but has not made a decision yet. "We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future," White House spokeswoman...
Iraq has executed 13 people including 11 convicted on charges relating to "terrorism", the justice ministry said Monday. They included individuals responsible for car bombings, "killings of security forces personnel" and kidnappings, it said in a statement, without specifying...
NEW YORK (AP)- Lawyers for President Donald Trump's personal attorney say investigators "took everything" during raids last week on his residence and office. The lawyers wrote in a court filing Monday that the raids a week ago to gather evidence from attorney Michael Cohen were...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The head of the international chemical weapons watchdog says that regime and Russian officials are citing "pending security issues" in keeping its inspectors from reaching the site of an alleged gas attack. Ahmet Uzumcu, the Director-General of the Organization for the...
