TEHRAN (AFP)- Iran's foreign minister slammed the European Union for "extremism" in relationship to Tehran in an interview published Monday ahead of a meeting with his French counterpart. "In order to keep the United States in the Iran nuclear deal, European countries are suffering from...

BEIJING: Thousands of Chinese legislators erupted into enthusiastic applause on Monday over plans to give President Xi Jinping a lifetime mandate to mould the Asian giant into a global superpower. China's rubber-stamp parliament met in the imposing Great Hall of the People for an annual...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The FSA-held city of Azaz signed a contract with Turkish AK energy to restore electricity to the border region by first of April. The move will help the residents of Azaz to not relying on electricity generators and will less the expenses.  The...

Turkish security forces held nearly 1,000 undocumented migrants on Saturday as they were attempting to illegally cross the country’s borders, the military said on Sunday. Border Guards arrested 881 people as they attempted to enter Turkey from the Syrian border, a daily report issued by...

PARIS (Reuters)- French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by telephone with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday to discuss Syria, notably the humanitarian situation in the besieged eastern Ghouta region, the French presidency said in a statement. The statement said Macron "spoke of...

(Reuters) - Abu Mohammad Alaya stands on top of a pile of rubble, still searching for the body for his eldest son more than a week after an air strike destroyed their home in Syria’s eastern Ghouta. Alaya believes 22-year-old Mohammad is buried somewhere beneath his feet, a victim of a...

MILAN (Reuters)- Fiorentina captain and defender Davide Astori died of a sudden illness Sunday morning at the age of 31, the Serie A club said, leaving Italian football in a state of shock. Serie A announced that all of Sunday’s matches, including the derby between AC Milan and Inter...

At least 38 more civilians were killed by Bashar al-Assad regime forces in besieged Eastern Ghouta region on Sunday, Syrian Civil Defense sources said. The regime's ground and air attacks continued on civilians in the opposition-hold area near capital Damascus despite decisions to...

Bashar Assad said Sunday his forces must push on with their campaign to retake the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta from rebels, despite mounting international calls to end the bloodshed. Assad's forces have seized over a quarter of the enclave on Damascus's eastern edges after two...

UN plans to deliver aid to Syria's Ghouta on Monday: statement

Rescue teams have recovered the black boxes of a plane that crashed last month in the mountains of southwestern Iran leaving 66 people dead, official media reported on Sunday. “The box that recorded flight parameters and the one with conversations in the cockpit have been handed over to...

France’s foreign ministry said on Sunday that Iran’s ballistic missile program was a major concern, a day before foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian was due to visit Tehran. He added that that the country needed to address concerns over its ballistic missile program or risk new...

Syrian government forces have seized roughly one quarter of the rebel-held eastern Ghouta enclave near Damascus in recent days, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Sunday. "Most of it is farms and there are few towns in [the captured area]," Observatory Directory Rami...

LONDON: Britain's prime minister is trying to ease the concerns of bankers after she torpedoed one of their biggest demands during a speech on the country's departure from the European Union. Prime Minister Theresa May told the BBC in an interview broadcast Sunday that both sides must...

Officials in Poland say four people have died and 24 have been injured in the collapse of an apartment block in the western city of Poznan. A spokesman for the local firefighters, Slawomir Brandt, said 24 teams of firefighters were working in the rubble after the collapse Sunday of a...

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump has spoken to world leaders about his planned tariff hikes on steel and aluminum and is not considering any exemptions to the measure, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Sunday. "I know he's had conversations with a number of the world leaders,"...

Syrian regime troops and allied militias have captured a number of villages and towns in a rebel-held region near the capital, in the largest advance since a wide-scale offensive began last month, state media and activists reported Sunday. Syria's Central Military Media said regime...

Advances by Syrian regime forces into rebel-held eastern Ghouta are causing many people to flee, a pro-Syrian opposition television station and a witness in the enclave said Sunday. Orient TV said advances by forces loyal to President Bashar Assad had triggered wide scale displacement....

CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have detained a staunchly pro-government talk show host over allegations he insulted police and disseminated false news on his state television program. In a statement carried on state news agency MENA late Saturday, Cairo prosecutors ordered Khairi Ramadan...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has mourned the first female soldier killed in the besieged Eastern Ghouta as the Russia-backed forces wage one of the deadliest offensives in the war. Rana Hashem was born in Salamiyah town in north western Hama province. More than 119,000...