President Donald Trump said Thursday he did not know about a $130,000 payment his personal attorney made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in his first public remarks on the alleged hush money. Asked by reporters on Air Force One why Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, made the payment,...

The UK is "playing with fire" over its charges that Moscow used a nerve agent to poison a former Russian spy on British soil, Russia's UN envoy said Thursday. "You are playing with fire, and you will be sorry," Vassily Nebenzia told the Security Council, claiming the UK is "poisoning"...

The eighth round of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations have been suspended and high-level ministerial representatives will meet instead to push for a deal, it was announced Thursday. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland left for Washington earlier in the day...

Clashes erupted on the Gaza-Israel border Friday, AFP journalists said, a week after similar demonstrations led to violence in which Israeli force killed 19 Palestinians, the bloodiest day since a 2014 war. Palestinians burned tires and threw stones at Israeli soldiers over the border...

(Anadolu Agency)- A Turkish aid agency has set up an accommodations site in Syria's northern Idlib countryside for Syrians who were evacuated from the besieged eastern Ghouta district, according to a foundation official on Thursday. The Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), one of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-Bashar al-Assad artists visited Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Thursday in what they said to congratulate the army for its ‘great victory and wiping off the terrorists.’ The propaganda visit followed six weeks of ferocious aerial campaign by Damascus and Moscow that...

Liverpool are facing the prospect of disciplinary action by European football authorities following an attack on Manchester City’s team bus before their Champions League quarterfinal. Missiles were thrown at the bus as it arrived for Wednesday’s first leg at Anfield, which hosts Liverpool won...

The director of the Pentagon's Joint Staff said Thursday that U.S. military policy toward fighting Daesh (ISIS) militants in Syria remains the same following discussions with President Donald Trump this week. "We've always thought that as we reach finality against ISIS [Daesh] in Syria...

 A German court Thursday agreed to release on bail former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont and said his extradition to Spain was possible on the basis of corruption charges there, but not on the more serious charge of rebellion. Puigdemont was arrested on entering Germany last...

A cholera outbreak in overcrowded refugee camps in Uganda has killed about 40 people and infected more than 2,000 as health workers rush to stem the spread, aid agencies said Thursday. Nearly 70,000 people from the Democratic Republic of Congo have fled to Uganda this year due to a...

End-of year university exams will be held in France despite students blockading some campuses, Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Thursday as young people joined a wave of demonstrations against proposed economic reforms. French unions launched three months of rolling work stoppages...

A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli army forces on Thursday near the Gaza Strip’s eastern border with Israel, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Thursday.  “The man’s body was brought to Gaza City’s Al-Shifa medical complex. We are in the process of trying to identify him,”...

A 16th convoy carrying civilians and opposition fighters from Syria’s Eastern Ghouta district, a besieged suburb of Damascus, arrived in Aleppo’s Al-Bab district Thursday morning. The convoy of buses carried 633 people, including 233 children and 180 women, who will be provided with...

 By Hassan Hassan , Michael Weiss (The Daily Beast)- “We’re knocking the hell out of ISIS. We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now.” So spoke the president of the United States in Richfield, Ohio on Thursday at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 million searches have been made by people looking for their names in the leaked wanted list which issued by the Syrian Intelligence and included names of 1.5 mn people, according to Google Analytics statistics. UPDATE : You can add your region to check your...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag says Turkey's intelligence agency has snatched at least 80 Turkish nationals wanted for their alleged links to the 2016 failed coup, in operations in 18 countries. Bozdag's comments during a television interview Thursday came after Turkey...

South Korea's air force said one of its F-15K fighter jets crashed Thursday at a mountain in the country's rural south. It isn't immediately clear what caused the crash or whether both pilots safely ejected. The air force said crews are searching for the pilots who were flying back to...

 Ride-hailing service Uber Thursday said it would suspend one of its two services in Greece after the approval of tighter sector rules. The San-Francisco based company said it would sideline from April 10 a service employing private drivers, which has sparked protests from cabbies...

Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said Wednesday it had signed a deal with French building and engineering group Artelia to manage the development of its offices in the eastern city of Benghazi. There have been plans for years to move the state oil firm's headquarters from the...

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said Thursday he would not back down on plans to overhaul the state-run SNCF railways, as the pro-reform CFDT labor union said it would take part in a further wave of strikes starting on Sunday. Philippe reiterated that he would not enter into...