Cubans voted Sunday to ratify a new National Assembly, a key step in a process leading to the elevation of a new president, the first in nearly 60 years from outside the Castro family. The new members of the National Assembly will be tasked with choosing a successor to 86-year-old...
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin's paternal grandfather worked as a cook for both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the president said in a film posted on the internet Sunday. In the two-hour documentary, called Putin, the president said Spiridon Putin was a valued member of Stalin's staff. The...
A delegation from rebel-held Eastern Ghouta was Sunday considering a partial evacuation deal to halt a fierce regime offensive, a negotiator and monitor told AFP. The two main rebel groups in the region, which borders Damascus, have firmly and repeatedly denied negotiating with the...
CAIRO (AFP)- Egypt's military said Sunday 16 jihadists, an officer and a soldier were killed in the past four days during a major military operation against Daesh (ISIS) jihadists in Sinai. The army launched a sweeping campaign after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who is...
MUSCAT (Reuters)- U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned Syria Sunday it would be "very unwise" for government forces to use weaponized gas, as he cited unconfirmed reports of chlorine attacks in eastern Ghouta and slammed Russian support for Damascus. Mattis stopped short of...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Civil Defense center went out of service Saturday when the regime warplanes dropped barrel bombs on the western countryside of Idlib province, local activists said. Despite the region of Jisr al-Shughour is a de-escalation zone, regime forces backed by Russia have...
Nineteen Palestinians have been martyred in the Gaza Strip since U.S. President Donald Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said three children were among...
The Libyan navy on Saturday rescued 252 migrants seeking to reach Europe, in two separate operations off the country’s western coast. “We were alerted… to the position of a migrant boat” around 30 kilometres (20 miles) off Zawiya, west of Tripoli, navy captain Rami al-Hadi Ghomed said....
BOGOTA (AP)- Colombia's former leftist guerrillas face their first electoral test as a political party Sunday in congressional voting also seen as a measure of the strength of the country's factions two months before presidential elections. Analysts see the balloting for the Senate and...
NEW DELHI (AFP)- French President Emmanuel Macron Sunday pledged hundreds of millions of dollars for solar projects in developing countries, as world leaders met in India to promote greater investment in renewable energy. Macron, who in December warned that the global shift to a green...
TOKYO (AFP)- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led a sombre ceremony Sunday as Japan marked the seventh anniversary of a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated its northeastern coast and left around 18,500 people dead or missing. The magnitude 9.0 quake - which...
BEIJING (AP)- China said Sunday that it will not initiate a trade war with the United States, but vowed to defend its national interests in the face of growing American protectionism. "There are no winners in a trade war, and it would bring disaster to our two countries as well as the...
Syrian regime forces continued their offensive against Eastern Ghouta Sunday, a day after they cut off the rebel-held enclave's largest town, pressing on with a 20-day assault that has left more than 1,000 civilians dead. The regime troops and allied Shiite militia launched their...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of the northwestern Syria have been suffering high fuel prices following the closure of a supply route between the town of Azaz and Afrin as the Turkish forces backed by Free Syrian Army launch major attack to seize Afrin region at the border. As...
(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Watch special footage for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) after seizing control of the town of Jinderes in Afrin region from Kurdish YPG militia last Thursday. On Saturday, Turkish forces and FSA advanced to within just a few...
Qatar on Saturday filed a complaint with the UN Security Council regarding alleged violations of its airspace by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. In a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the Dutch President of the UN Security Council, Karel Van...
Fresh protests erupted in Iraq’s southern Karbala province on Saturday against the arrest of Shia cleric Hossein Shirazi in Iran. Scores of demonstrators waved banners calling for Shirazi’s release amid calls for the Iraqi government to intervene to free the Shia cleric. ...
(Zaman Al Wasl-AFP)- Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels battling Kurdish militia in northern Syria advanced on Saturday to within just a few kilometres of the flashpoint town of Afrin, a war monitor said. The move came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his...
Two German journalists were arrested in a Greek forbidden military zone near the Turkish border on Friday, local media reported. The arrests of the man and woman, aged 31 and 33 respectively, were made in Didymoteicho district of northeastern Evros province, according to Kathimerini...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels launched surprise attack on regime forces in the eastern Qalamoun region at the edge of Syrian desert, leaving nine troops killed, rebel spokesman said Saturday. Said Seif, spokesman for Ahmed al-Abdo Battalions, said the US-backed rebel group has also...
