Seven people including at least six police were killed Sunday in a prison riot in eastern Mexico, authorities said, the latest outburst of deadly violence in the country's jails. Police were trying to transport a group of "highly dangerous" prisoners from the La Toma prison in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 52 regime troops and allied militants from coastal Tartus province killed by rebels in  March, pro-regime news feeds said. The death toll included six officers  as most of slain fighters killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital. More...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels of Eastern Qalamoun may face the same fate of their fellows in Eastern Ghouta as regime threatens of ferocious offensive to uproot rebels who decline to accept its three choices. Laying down arms to the army, evacuating rebels and people who want to leave or...

Although he hasn't said it openly, there's no doubt that Zinedine Zidane knows his Real Madrid line-up for Tuesday night in Turin.What happened against Las Palmas on Saturday in their 3-0 victory will not have influenced his decision. Karim Benzema has scored many goals since joining...

Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian while trying to sneak into Israel from the Gaza Strip, according to the military.    In a statement on Sunday, the army said the detained Palestinian was unarmed and was taken into custody for investigation, according to Yedioth Ahronoth...

A growing list of world leaders on Saturday condemned Israeli attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip that martyred 15 Palestinians during peaceful protests the previous day. The German foreign ministry voiced deep concerning for the tensions between Palestinians and Israeli security...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces stepped up its artillery shelling on opposition-held towns in southern Daraa province, local activists said Sunday. The border region with Jordan has endured to heavy artillery bombardment as regime army mobilizes troops in the next-door province of...

(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. Zaman Al Wasl launched on March 15 a...

The U.S. is taking measures against a possible counter-terror operation led by Turkey in Syria's northern Manbij district.  The U.S. has deployed military reinforcements to Manbij, west of Euphrates River, according to information Anadolu Agency received from trustworthy local...

Palestine on Sunday called on the Arab League to hold an emergency meeting on "Israeli crimes against Land Marches," Palestine’s ambassador to Cairo told Anadolu Agency. Diab al-Louh said his country had submitted a memorandum to the Arab League to hold an emergency meeting at the level...

Islamist insurgents battled for hours on Sunday with African Union troops after exploding a car bomb outside their base, Somali police, military and the militants said. Al-Shabab militants attacked the African Union (AU) peacekeepers' base in the town Bulamarer, 130 kilometers to the...

The remains of 38 Indian construction workers captured and killed by Daesh (ISIS) in northern Iraq have been handed over to Indian authorities in Baghdad and will be flown home. Indian Ambassador Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit said the bodies had been taken to Baghdad International Airport...

 Hundreds of Catalan independence supporters marched in Berlin on Sunday to demand the release of ex-regional president Carles Puigdemont, who was arrested in Germany last week and faces extradition to Spain on rebellion charges. Huddled under umbrellas in the rainy German capital,...

Rex Tillerson has all but vanished from the State Department's website as his unceremonious firing by tweet took effect over the weekend. The "Secretary of State Tillerson" link on the department's homepage disappeared overnight Saturday and was replaced with a generic "Secretary of...

Hundreds of Iraqis staged an open sit-in on Sunday to protest the collapse of services in the eastern part of the capital.   “We have come out today to protest years of deliberate government negligence,” Jabbar Latif, an elder from the Shia-majority al-Fadhiliya district in eastern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Failaq al-Rahman fighters began Sunday to leave Douma, their last bastion in eastern Ghouta to head to northern Idlib province as negotiations with Jaish al-Islam still underway, regime media said. The move is the first such withdrawal of Failaq al-Rahman...

A Kuwaiti court Sunday sentenced in absentia a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging over the murder of a Filipina maid, a judicial source said. The court issued the sentence in the first hearing in the case of Joanna Demafelis, the 29-year-old maid whose body was found...

Pope Francis celebrated Easter mass under tight security and a sunny sky Sunday in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in a flower-bedecked St Peter's Square. Under a longstanding tradition, the Netherlands donated some 50,000 tulips, daffodils, roses and orchids for the...

Iraq exported 3.453 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from its southern ports in March, slightly above the February average, the oil ministry said Sunday. Iraq's exports from the ports, managed by the central government in Baghdad, averaged 3.426 million bpd in February, down...

A group of Syrian rebel fighters began Sunday to leave their last bastion in eastern Ghouta to head to rebel-held Idlib in northwestern Syria, state media said. The move is the first such withdrawal of Failaq al-Rahman fighters from besieged Douma, where the dominant rebel group Jaish...