A former Playboy model apologized to first lady Melania Trump for a 10-month affair she claims she had with President Donald Trump that started with him offering her money after the first time they had sex. During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that aired Thursday night, Karen...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 37 people burned to death when Russia's warplanes pounded their underground shelter in Arbin town with Napalm and incendiary bombs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.  "Russian air strikes and incendiary weapons killed the...

ATHENS (Reuters) - A 26-year old Syrian man set himself on fire at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Thursday, in one of the most serious incidents involving stranded migrants in many months. The man was slightly burned and was treated at a local hospital, an official...

(Reuters) - A U.S. Senate subcommittee on Thursday sought information from a Cambridge University researcher about how the personal data of 50 million Facebook users landed in the hands of a political consulting firm that worked for U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign. The letter,...

Ryan Giggs’ first game as Wales coach got off to a flying start Thursday with a 6-0 demolition of China as Gareth Bale scored a hat-trick. The Real Madrid forward scored his 29th international goal for his country to become the highest-scoring Welsh player of all time, breaking Ian...

Saudi Arabia’s attempts to prepare for the World Cup are not confined to arranging friendlies or hiring world-famous coaches. After years of Saudi players staying home, nine were sent to clubs in the top two tiers of Spanish football in January until the end of the current season....

Across Japan’s capital, delicate pink-and-white cherry blossoms are emerging, but the famed blooms are facing a potentially mortal enemy, experts say: an invasive foreign beetle. The alien invader is aromia bungii, otherwise known as the red-necked longhorn beetle, which is native to...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic has signed for the Los Angeles Galaxy and could make his debut for the MLS side this month, Sports Illustrated reported Thursday. Hours after reports in Britain said Ibrahimovic had played his last game for Manchester United, Sports Illustrated reported on its website...

The 318-kilogram sea lion blinked in the sun, sniffed the sea air and then lazily shifted to the edge of the truck bed and plopped onto the beach below. Freed from the cage that carried him to the ocean, the massive marine mammal shuffled into the surf, looked left, looked right and then began...

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it had approved the possible sale to Saudi Arabia of TOW 2B anti-tank missiles worth an estimated $670 million. The department said it had notified the U.S. Congress on Thursday of the possible sale. "This proposed sale will support...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy vowed to clear his name on Friday after being charged for allegedly financing his 2007 election campaign with money from late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, but said he was "finished" in politics. "It might take me one, two, 10 years but I'll...

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday about the importance of strong bilateral relations, the White House said, amid tensions over Turkey's military actions in parts of Kurdish-controlled northern Syria. "The two leaders committed to...

Faylaq al-Rahman, key rebel group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, has agreed ceasefire from midnight to negotiate exit from stricken enclave    

An air strike by the Arab-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed ten civilians, including women and children, in the northern province of Saada Thursday, residents and medics said. Saudi Arabia's military alliance intervened in Yemen's war in 2015 against Iran-aligned Houthis who had...

A prominent Syrian Kurdish leader Thursday criticized Russia for giving a "green light" to Turkey to carry out an offensive in Syria's Afrin region, saying it wouldn't have happened without Moscow's approval. Turkish troops and allied Syrian forces seized control of the northwestern...

Syrian rebels and their families left Eastern Ghouta Thursday under a Russian-brokered evacuation deal that is the first for the shrinking opposition enclave outside Damascus. They were bussed out in direction of the northwestern province of Idlib, after hours of waiting in a buffer...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian airstrikes on a local market in the northwestern province of Idlib have killed at least 42 civilians, Civil Defense agency and local activists said. The deadly strikes hit the town of Harem, which is controlled by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, a group led by Syria's...

 British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would tell other European Union leaders on Thursday that Russia posed a threat to the whole bloc, not only to Britain, following an attack using a military-grade nerve agent in England. "Russia staged a brazen and reckless attack against...

A famous Turkish singer and actress has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a performance in 2016, the Hurriyet newspaper said Thursday. Singer Zuhal Olcay was accused of changing the lyrics of one of her songs by substituting...

Three Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday clearing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the Syrian region of Afrin after the capture of Afrin city at the weekend, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. "We have three martyrs today. They were martyred while clearing IEDs," Yildirim...