CAIRO (Reuters)- Sudan will send its ambassador back to neighbouring Egypt on Monday, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour said, two months after withdrawing him amid heightened tensions. Khartoum has not explained why it recalled Abdel Mahmoud Abdel Halim early in January. But disputes...

BEVERLY HILLS, United States: Viola Davis is good in a pinch. Last year's best supporting actress Oscar-winner was sipping champagne at the annual Women in Film pre-Oscar cocktail event Friday night when the organization's president, Cathy Schulman, herself an Oscar-winner for "Crash,"...

MANILA: More than 100 drug suspects have been killed since Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the police to rejoin his "war on drugs," an official said Saturday. Duterte was elected in 2016 on a promise to eradicate drugs, and launched an unprecedented campaign in which --...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians have been killed in fresh airstrikes on Eastern Ghouta suburbs as regime forces step up its most deadliest offensives since the revolution erupted in March 2011. Douma and Harasta town have endured to heavy strikes since early Saturday,...

(AFP) -  Insecurity in Mali "continues to rage" and is progressing toward the center of the country, according to an interim UN report. Members of Plateforme, an armed pro-government coalition, and the CMA rebel alliance, who were signatories to a 2015 peace deal, are seeing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee in Germany's Stuttgart city has stabbed his wife to death on Friday and aired his confession in a live video on Facebook. The man, who has killed his wife in front of his son, said in the shocking video that his wife refused to give him his son....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ten female detainees have been freed in central Homs province due to a swap deal between Free Syrian Army and regime forces, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Friday. Liwa' al-Muntasser Bellah has freed nine regime militants in return.      The female...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Military sources said regime's Air Force last Monday had moved 5 L-39ZA light attack aircrafts, one of the favoured platforms of the regime Air Force for performing ground attack missions,  to al-Dumayr military airport that situated at the...

DAMASCUS (AFP)- A Syrian referee was punched several times by the president of top club side Tishreen on Friday during their bad-tempered first division home match against Al Nawaeir. Referee Zakariya Allouche abandoned the game after the astonishing turn of events in a clash which saw...

WASHINGTON (AP)- Citing mysterious "health attacks" in Havana, the United States said Friday it was making permanent its withdrawal of 60 percent of its diplomats from Cuba as investigations continue. Last October, the State Department ordered non-essential embassy personnel and the...

GENEVA (Reuters)- The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday it had suspended its work in the Nigerian town of Rann and evacuated national and international staff after a deadly raid. Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 11 people including three aid workers...

WASHINGTON (AP)- White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is trying to explain his defense of a former aide accused of abusing two ex-wives. He says he made supportive comments before he knew of an accusation of physical abuse. Kelly told reporters Friday that the White House did not...

MOSCOW: It sounds like a thriller: nearly half a ton of cocaine was hidden in bags at the Russian Embassy's school in Buenos Aires before being loaded on a Russian government plane bound for Moscow. Yet that's exactly what happened in a recent sting run by Russia and Argentina to nab a...

: The United States and Russia are again clashing over an expert body to determine responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, with Washington circulating a new draft U.N. resolution and Moscow moving toward a vote on its own proposal. The U.S. and Russia have been lashing out at...

 Air strikes on the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta and shelling from the rebel-held zone into Damascus most likely constitute war crimes andmust be prosecuted, the top U.N. human rights official said on Friday. Zeid Raad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights,...

Syrian regime forces aim to advance into the eastern Ghouta region one "bite" at a time, a pro-government commander said Friday, as a war monitor said the army had seized new ground from rebels. In one of the deadliest offensives of the war, government air strikes and bombardment have...

A German security official says the immediate threat posed by a cyberattack on the government's secure computer network was averted soon after it was detected. Following a report by news agency dpa Wednesday, the government acknowledged its network had been infiltrated but downplayed...

As many as 674 civilians have been killed in nearly two weeks by the continuous air attacks on the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, a Syrian volunteer group has said. The Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, said on Friday that more than 670 people have been killed...

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea denied reports it had cooperated with Syria on chemical weapons, dismissing them as a fabrication by the United States to pressure the country, state media reported late Thursday. State run KCNA news agency cited a spokesman at the foreign ministry’s...

BERLIN (AP)- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken with President Donald Trump about the situation in Syria and Russia's newly announced weapons systems. Merkel's office said Friday they spoke late Thursday, agreeing on the need for Syrian government forces and their Russian and...