A rowdy mob of over two dozen men on motorcycles streamed into the small square in the center of Manbij. They cheered and waved jerseys of their local soccer team, which had just beat the town's top club. The upset victory was sweet, and their wild chants reverberated, "My people! My people!"...

More than 100,000 visitors are expected in Windsor, west of London, for the wedding of Prince Harry and U.S. actress Meghan Markle on May 19, police said Thursday. "The policing operation will be amongst the largest in Thames Valley Police's history," the force said in a statement....

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will face trial over charges he misused his influence to secure leaked details of an inquiry into alleged irregularities in his 2007 election campaign, a source close to the investigation said on Thursday. Sarkozy's lawyers said he would appeal...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of newly recruited fighters with no military experience have been deployed in the northern countryside of Aleppo province as Turkey seeks to clean border territory from Kurdish militias and regime allies, sources said Thursday. The newly recruited militants...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Avenatti wants to be clear: He does not bluff. A year ago, the attorney was in the closing days of a jury trial, facing off against a company he had accused of making faulty surgical gowns. When the other side questioned his plans to bring a plant manager in...

The eighth convoy carrying civilians and opposition fighters from Eastern Ghouta, a besieged suburb of Damascus, arrived in Syria’s central-western Hama province on Thursday. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents based in the area, evacuees were taken from the towns of Arbin,...

The massive Russian-backed Syrian military offensive in suburbs east of Damascus is almost over, with rebels holed up in just a single town after abandoning the rest of the eastern Ghouta enclave, Moscow said Thursday. A senior official for Jaish al-Islam, the faction that controls the last...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The negotiation committee in the besieged town of Douma said Thursday's talks with Russia were positive, lessing fears of an imminent offensive by regime army and allied militias on the last rebel-held town in Eastern Ghouta suburbs. Thursday’s...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Thursday returned to Pakistan for the first time since being shot by Taliban militants in her hometown Swat in 2012. Accompanied by her parents and other officials of Malala Fund, the 20-year-old human rights activist arrived at Shaheed...

South and North Korea will hold the third-ever meeting of their leaders on April 27, as both sides confirmed plans for the summit during high-level talks at their closely guarded border Thursday. The meeting between the North's ruler Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in,...

Rioting and a fire in a police station in northern Venezuela on Wednesday night left at least 68 people dead, the country’s chief prosecutor said early Thursday. Venezuela Attorney General Tarek William Saab said on his official Twitter account that preliminary inquiries found out that...

Six men were sentenced to death by a court in southern Thailand for the massacre of eight members of one family, including three children, over a land and loan dispute. The Krabi provincial court on Wednesday found them guilty of conspiracy to murder and related charges for the killings...

Croatia has accepted Israel's offer to supply a dozen F-16 fighter jets for its air force, the government confirmed on Thursday. The deal to buy 12 jets that have been in use by the Israeli air force had been recommended by Croatia's national defense council earlier in the week....

China commended on Thursday efforts to improve ties by North and South Korea and said it hopes positive momentum can be sustained, after a date was set for the first summit between the two countries in more than a decade. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang made the comments at a...

Russia's Defense Ministry said on Thursday nearly 5,300 rebels and members of their families left Syria's Eastern Ghouta enclave on Wednesday, news agencies reported. Rebels left the town of Arbin for the northern province of Idlib, according to the Center for Reconciliation in Syria, a...

France on Thursday accused Iran of supplying weapons to Houthi rebels fighting a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. "There is a problem in Yemen, it is that the political process has not begun, that Saudi Arabia feels regularly attacked by the Houthis, who are themselves supplied with arms...

 L'enfant Syrienne Nour Laith Ibrahim a remporté la première place à un concours international de mathématiques mentales tenu à Kuala Lumpur en Malaisie, a confié sa mère à Zaman al-Wasl mardi. La jeune fille de 12 ans a été capable de résoudre 235 questions en 8 minutes, selon sa...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian child Nour Laith Ibrahim won the first place in an international mental mathematics competition held in Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur, her mother told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. The 12-year-old girl was able to solve 235 questions in 8 minutes, according to her...

Video circulating online of a young man apparently sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Morocco has sparked an uproar just as the government is trying to fight violence against women. Amid widespread anger, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday that authorities have arrested the alleged...

British police said on Wednesday the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter may have been exposed to a suspected nerve agent at the front door of their home. "At this point in our investigation, we believe the Skripals first came into contact with the nerve agent...