(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed at least 20 regime troops in coastal Latakia province on Wednesday, source told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels in the mountainous Jabal al-Akrad area launched an attack on regime bastions in retaliation to regime offensive on Eastern Ghouta subrubs....

Britain and Saudi Arabia will monitor shipping lanes in preparation for opening Yemeni ports, the British foreign minister said on Wednesday after meeting his Saudi counterpart in Yemen, according to Saudi-run Al Arabiya television. Boris Johnson also said London would seek a United...

  The United Nations Security Council Wednesday called for a ceasefire to be implemented across Syria and expressed concern about the country's humanitarian situation, Netherlands U.N. Ambassador and council president for March Karel van Oosterom said. "The cessation of hostilities...

TEHRAN: A woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran's compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to 24 months in prison, three months without parole, the judiciary said Wednesday. Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not...

A car bomb attack killed 11 people and injured more than 10 others in Jarablus, a border zone that Turkish forces and Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) took from Daesh in 2016. The suspected PKK-affiliated People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorists detonated a car bomb near a police...

DUBAI: Air strikes killed a woman and a young girl in northern Yemen on Wednesday in a series of attacks by an Arab coalition fighting the country's Iran-aligned Houthi movement, residents told Reuters. The Arab-led alliance, which has intervened in Yemen's war since 2015 to try to...

ISTANBUL (AFP)- Criticism mounted in Turkey Wednesday over a decision by Saudi-owned broadcaster MBC to stop airing Turkish soap operas, stoking tensions between Ankara and Riyadh. Viewers in the Arab world have in recent years become voracious consumers of Turkish soaps ranging from...

   (Zaman Al Wasl- AP)- Fresh air strikes on eastern Ghouta near Damascus brought the death toll for Wednesday's bombardment on the rebel-held enclave near Damascus to 45, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said at least 18 of the...

Turkey’s National Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said on Wednesday a domestically produced protection system will be used for tanks in Operation Olive Branch. In a special interview with Anadolu Agency, Canikli said: "We will begin to install PULAT [protection] system to our tanks...

The Turkish and Iranian leaders on Wednesday discussed recent developments in Syria, especially the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta, according to Turkish presidential sources. In a phone conversation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani...

The White Helmets civil defense agency has called on the UN to take "necessary steps" to ease the dire humanitarian situation in Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta district. In a Wednesday statement, the agency said that attacks by the Assad regime were ongoing despite the recent adoption...

Russia is interested in developing good relations with Turkey, Russian President Vladimir Putin says in a new documentary. "Turkey is a big country, our neighbor. We had different relations for centuries. We are interested, we are objectively interested in good relations with Turkey,"...

BERLIN (AFP) -  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman on Wednesday condemned a visit by politicians of the far-right AfD party to the "inhumane" Syrian regime. "People who court this regime disqualify themselves," said Steffen Seibert on the Damascus trip by six members of...

YANGON (Reuters)- Police in Myanmar searched the family home of Reuters reporter Wa Lone looking for material "related to news" the night after he and a colleague were arrested on suspicion of violating the Official Secrets Act, an officer told a court on Wednesday. Myanmar has...

London (AFP)- Stock markets and the dollar jolted Wednesday as news that Donald Trump's top economics adviser had resigned revived trade war fears, while early excitement at North Korea's offer of denuclearisation talks fizzled out. "Investors panicked in response to Gary Cohn's...

Dresden, Germany (AFP)- Eight members of a German far-right group were sentenced to jail Wednesday on terrorism and attempted murder charges for a series of explosives attacks targeting refugees and anti-fascist activists. Based in Germany's ex-communist east, the so-called "Freital...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP)- Palestinian officials say their chief legislative body will hold its first meeting in nearly a decade to elect a new leadership - a step that could pave the way for a future successor to President Mahmoud Abbas. Ahmad Majdalani, a top Palestinian official, says...

LAGOS (Reuters)- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday said Nigeria was slowly exiting recession but remains vulnerable because its growth is tied to oil prices with improved revenues restricted to the energy and agriculture sectors. The assessment, published in a report on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of a poor village in Hasaka province were  overwhelmed with joy when the main spring in their area started to pour again after ten years of depletion. The heavy rainfall in the northeastern Syria has revived the spring of Ayn al-Ghura, following ten...

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)- Refugee girls are only half as likely as their male peers to go to secondary school, the U.N. said Wednesday, urging efforts to break down barriers to education for girls in exile. Refugees in general have far less access to schooling than other children, and...