A monitor said Tuesday three dozen pro-regime fighters were killed in a southern district of the capital as Daesh (ISIS) militants took control of it in a surprise nighttime attack. There was no immediate comment from the regime on the report by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime forces have arrested a prominent commander of one of its pro-militias, following clashes with Tiger elite forces, sources said on Tuesday. Mahmoud Afifa along with 12 members of his militia were arrested after clashes with forces subordinated to Suhail...

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as 'MBS,' has said he will not apologize for his luxury lifestyle and lavish spending. In a wide-ranging interview ahead of a visit to the U.S., MBS told CBS News that his personal finances are a private matter. The prince will...

Egypt’s state censors prohibited the performance of a play just hours before its Sunday premiere in Cairo, the latest episode in authorities’ unrelenting crackdown on free speech. Director Ahmed El Attar cancelled the Sunday and Monday showings of Before The Revolution, a two-actor piece that...

An air strike on a school in Eastern Ghouta late Monday killed 17 children and two women who were using its basement as a bomb shelter, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing raid hit Arbin, a key town in a dwindling rebel-held pocket of Ghouta that has...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas directly accused Hamas on Monday of carrying out a bomb attack against prime minister Rami Hamdallah in Gaza last week, threatening fresh sanctions against them. Abbas had previously said the Islamist group was responsible as it controls security in...

Hungary defended its anti-immigration stance on Monday at the United Nations, saying it was determined to maintain a homogeneous, Christian society. The U.N. Committee on Civil and Political Rights, composed of independent experts, began a two-day review of Hungary's record, less than...

SANAA, Yemen (AP)- Yemeni security officials say local forces backed by the United Arab Emirates are expanding their reach in the country's south, where they have clashed with forces loyal to the internationally recognized president. The UAE is part of the Saudi-led coalition battling...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition has made an airdrop in the northeastern province of Hasaka, tracking suspected ISIS militants in border village with Iraq, residents told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The U.S. helicopters made the airdrop in Tel Hamis, where U.S. troops raided two...

Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said an agreement between the European Union and Britain on Monday on a Brexit transition period represented "good progress" and made the British commitment to address Irish issues clearer. A draft transition agreement unveiled by the two sides...

Russia has no desire for a new arms race and will do everything it can to resolve differences with other countries, while defending its national interests, President Vladimir Putin said Monday. Putin, at a meeting with the opponents he defeated in Sunday's presidential election, said...

More London banks are expected to pick Frankfurt as a European base as they adjust to post-Brexit restrictions, German financial industry representatives said Monday, even as Britain and the EU hailed progress in divorce talks. "From April there will be sizeable moves" by banks setting...

Turkey will ask the European Union about the remainder of 3 billion euro ($3.69 billion) funding granted for Syrian refugees living in Turkey during the meeting in the Bulgarian city of Varna next week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Speaking in Ankara, Erdogan said...

A British woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in the Syrian region of Afrin was killed in the Turkish-led offensive on the area, a spokeswoman for the forces said Monday. Anna Campbell was killed last week in the Afrin enclave, Nisrin Abdallah said, a spokeswoman for the Kurdish...

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has met his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo, as the two countries look to repair ties that were recently frayed over an upstream Nile dam being built by Ethiopia. At a joint press conference Monday, al-Bashir and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi...

Turkey's military operations in Syria will continue further east until several towns stretching hundreds of kilometers towards the Iraqi border have been cleared of militants, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Speaking in Ankara a day after Turkish forces and their rebel...

At least 20 civilians have died in a resumption of Syrian regime bombing on Douma, the largest town in shrinking rebel-controlled pockets of Eastern Ghouta, a monitor said Monday. Thirteen were killed late Sunday in air strikes and artillery fire on the battered town, and another seven...

An Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a prone Palestinian assailant in a case that divided the country had his sentence reduced by a third Monday by a military parole board. Elor Azaria was initially sentenced to 18 months in prison, but Israeli military chief...

Turkish forces will withdraw from the Syrian border region of Afrin, leaving it to its "real owners", once it has been cleared of "terrorists", Turkey said on Monday. Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies swept into the regional capital, also called Afrin, on Sunday, raising their flags in...

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said Monday there was no real choice in Russia's presidential election the previous day and complained it had been marked by pressure on critical voices. "Choice without real competition, as we have seen here, is not real choice,"...