The Syrian regime army has in effect cut off the two large eastern Ghouta towns of Douma and Harasta by advancing into areas between them and the rest of the rebel enclave, and by bringing roads linking them into firing range, a war monitor said. The advances on Saturday morning...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Tahrir al-Sham and rebel groups based in southern suburbs of Damascus have agreed to evacuate al-Qadam district on Saturday, source told Zamana al-Wasl. The evacuation process of former al-Qaeda fighters and some Islamist factions has begun as tens of fighters...

The Qatari market is expected to become self sufficient in dairy products till the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in about two months. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Moutaz al-Khayyat, chairman to the board of directors for Baladna, said the company will fulfill demands of the local market....

NABLUS, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli soldiers Saturday following a clash with Jewish settlers near the West Bank city of Nablus, medics and security sources said. Palestinian security sources said the clash was started by the settlers, after which...

The leader of an Iranian spiritual movement, whose repeated death sentences drew UN and US condemnation, has been given a five-year jail term after a second retrial, his lawyer said Saturday. In June 2015 and again in September last year, the courts found Mohammad Ali Taheri guilty of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday took a strategic post from the ISIS branch in southern Syria, foiling an ISIS attempt to slice opposition-held area in two between Qunietra nad Daraa provinces, local activists said. Abdullah al-Shami said the resistance factions had...

The Turkish military and Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Saturday liberated three more villages in northwestern Syria's Afrin region from Kurdish YPG militia. According to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground, the villages of Babak Ushagi, Qorta, and Qasha in Bulbul,...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Tribal figures loyal to Bashar al-Assad have intensified efforts to mediate a reconciliation agreement in former ISIS-held areas in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, following a calm between the militant group and US-backed Kurdish militias, sources said....

In 1978, Najla Ali got married to Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi, who later became Egypt’s first freely elected president.   After marriage, Najla travelled with her husband to the U.S., where Morsi went to complete a PhD in material science at the University of Southern...

PARIS: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to propose a name change for the National Front, part of a makeover designed to make the anti-immigration party relevant again after she was defeated by Emmanuel Macron in the presidential race. Le Pen is expected to make the proposal...

NEW DELHI: India and France pledged Saturday to work together to ensure freedom of navigation in the Indian Ocean and signed an agreement to expedite construction of a big nuclear power plant in India by a French company. After talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in New Delhi,...

WASHINGTON (AP)- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev chose Reykjavik, Iceland. Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin huddled at Yalta. Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev will always have Paris. So where should President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un...

BEIJING (AP)- One of China's biggest cities has imposed curbs on traffic and factories due to a spike in air pollution and told elderly people and children to stay indoors. The government of Tianjin, a port city of 15.5 million people east of Beijing, said half its cars will be barred...

A gunman and three women thought to be his hostages were found dead Friday at a California veterans home after an hours-long standoff with police. The assailant struck at 10:20 am (1820 GMT) at the Veterans Home of California-Yountville in the Napa Valley, the largest veterans' home in...

MOSCOW (AFP)-  Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is expected to be reelected for a fourth term in an upcoming ballot, said Saturday he had no plans to change the constitution to stay in the Kremlin beyond 2024. Asked by the US television network NBC whether he would follow in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels shot down a Su-22 fighter jet on Friday while it was bombing the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Brigadier General Mohamed al-Ahmed, commander of the 54th Squadron and the military pilot who conducts most of airstrikes on...

Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed at least five people in central Nigeria's Plateau state, police said Saturday, in the latest violence linked to tensions over grazing rights. Thursday's attack happened just as President Muhammadu Buhari was rounding up a tour of Plateau and...

Qatar accused the United Arab Emirates Friday of seizing a fishing boat and forcing its eight occupants to enter Emirati waters at gunpoint, the latest accusation in a nine-month row between the Gulf Arab neighbors. The UAE, along with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt, imposed travel, diplomatic...

The regime army continued its offensive against rebel-held Eastern Ghouta Saturday, a day after an aid convoy delivered food to the hunger-stricken residents of the enclave despite heavy bombardment. Nearly 950 civilians have been killed since Russia-backed regime forces launched a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish al-Islam, key rebel group in Eastern Ghouta, said Friday an evacuation deal had been reached with Russia and the United Nations to deport fighters of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, former al-Qaeda branch in Syria, from the stricken suburbs to northern Idlib province....