European airspace authorities are warning aircraft to be careful over the next days when flying close to Syria because of possible military action against President Bashar Assad's forces. The Eurocontrol airspace organization said that the European Aviation Safety Agency had sent a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian air force is hiding its fighter jets in the Russian Hmeimim air base in Latakia province as Trump's administration determined to launch disciplinary air strikes over deadly poison gas attack on Douma town, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Sources assured that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has freed 40 detainees, including army defectors, after at least three years in military and civil prisons, the Coordinator of the Detainees association said. Most of the prisoners were freed from Sednaya military prison on Tuesday, according to Diab...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks jumped Tuesday after Chinese President Xi Jinping said Beijing would reduce tariffs on imported cars and improve intellectual property protection, steps that could ease trade tensions.  Facebook climbed as CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the Senate about...

ROME (AP) — Roma knock Barcelona out of Champions League with 3-0 win to go through on away goals.

The international chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday it was sending a fact-finding mission to the Syrian town where a suspected chemical gas attack took place over the weekend, following a request from the Syrian government and its Russian backers that appeared to be aimed at averting...

Russia vetoes US resolution to create new expert body to determine responsibility for Syria chemical weapons attacks.

At least 783 civilians were killed in attacks across war-torn Syria last month, according to a Syrian human rights group on Tuesday.   A total of 198 children and 138 women were among the civilian fatalities in Syria in March, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a...

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday warned of worsening situation in Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta where tens of thousands of civilians remain trapped. Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday at the UN in Geneva, UNHCR spokesman Andrej Mahecic said: "We estimate that more than...

President Donald Trump will skip a summit in Latin America this week to oversee the U.S. response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria after he threatened military action, the White House confirmed Tuesday. Trump was scheduled to attend the April 13-14 Summit of the Americas in Lima,...

Saudi Arabia and France signed 20 economic deals worth more than $18 billion, Al Arabiya TV said Tuesday as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman visits Paris, without specifying whether they were full contracts or memorandums of understanding. State oil giant Saudi Aramco earlier...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish forces took ground from Daesh on Tuesday near an oil-rich territory in northeastern Hasaka province, activists said. The Syrian Democratic Forces pushed further towards last ISIS pockets east of al-Kubaiba oil fields in al-Shaddadi region....

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey will return Syria's Afrin to its residents, criticizing recent remarks by Russian foreign minister. Sergey Lavrov on Monday urged Ankara to return Afrin to the Bashar al-Assad regime. "This is a wrong approach. We know...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is promising to consider the impact of a new Russian-German gas pipeline on Ukraine as plans progress. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline would pump Russian gas to Germany beneath the Baltic Sea. It is viewed suspiciously in some eastern European countries which...

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced a 10,000-euro limit for citizens' foreign currency holdings outside banks on Tuesday, a day after the government announced a plan to unify official and open market exchange rates. Citizens have until the end of the month to sell any excess...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday have thwarted an attack by Daesh affiliate in the southern province of Daraa, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, an ISIS branch in southern Syria, has launched a surprise attack on the town of Hait in the western...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Blockchain technology has the potential to shake up the travel industry by giving airlines and hotels a way to bypass controlling intermediaries like Expedia (EXPE.O) or Amadeus (AMA.MC) and gain better access to customer data. Major players including Lufthansa...

 Russia has been jamming U.S. drones in Syria, blocking GPS signals and causing them to malfunction, according to officials.  Four U.S. officials told NBC News that the Russians had been crippling American drones for the past few weeks, seriously affecting military...

Egypt's official statistics agency says the inflation rate dropped to 13.3 percent in March, the month of the country's presidential election, from 14.4 percent in February. The drop continues a decline since inflation peaked last summer, hovering around 30 percent after the government cut...

The death toll from a deadly explosion in Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib has risen to 28, according to a local civil defense official on Tuesday.   Around 135 people have been injured in the blast that struck a residential building in the city on Monday, Muhammed Haj Youssef...