A cyberattack targeting Germany's government IT network is "ongoing", the parliamentary committee on intelligence issues said Thursday, without confirming media reports that Russian hackers were behind the assault. "It is a real cyberattack on part of the government system. It's...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Thursday that elements of NATO's anti-missile system deployed in Poland, Romania and Alaska were like an "umbrella with holes in it", Russian news agencies reported. "It turns out that the anti-missile umbrella has holes in it," Interfax cited...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has been recruiting Syrian children in its paramilitary groups in Syria, exclusive photos obtained by Zaman al-Wasl show. Most of the mercenaries have been deployed in eastern Deir Ezzor province where tens of indigenous people have joined the Russian...

Mobile phones are helping transform how relief agencies respond to humanitarian crises by enabling them to pin point where aid is needed most after hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters. At the same time, mobile apps that need just a few taps of the finger to make a donation are...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source denied Western intelligence reports that Iran has built another permanent military base outside Damascus as Fox News said on Tuesday. The satellite images showed a training camp of the regime's Special Forces in the village of al-Dreij...

Two officers have been killed in an ongoing Egyptian army campaign against militant groups based in the Sinai Peninsula, according to a Thursday army statement. The statement, which was broadcast on state television, did not say how the officers had been killed except to say they were...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia and Syria clashed with the U.S. and its Western allies Wednesday over responsibility for the failure of a cease-fire to take hold in Syria as the U.N. said humanitarian convoys are ready to head to 10 locations including besieged Eastern Ghouta near the capital...

Egypt's chief prosecutor told his staff Wednesday to closely monitor the media and move against any they consider to be "hurting national interests," the latest move by authorities to suppress any dissenting voices ahead of elections seen as virtually a one-man race ensuring the re-election of...

A suicide bomber killed four soldiers in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta and a gunman shot dead two policemen in a separate attack in the restive province on Wednesday, officials said. Quetta is the capital of Balochistan, a province bordering Iran and Afghanistan where police...

Trade talks between a Chinese official and three of U.S. President Donald Trump's senior advisers will take place at the White House on Thursday, a White House official said. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and White House economic adviser...

Murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak was probing alleged high-level political corruption linked to the Italian mafia, the news portal he worked for revealed Wednesday, as his killing sparked political fallout and fresh demonstrations in the EU state. A protest called by a conservative...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Societe Generale SA have submitted final bids for the Commerzbank AG unit that houses the lender’s exchange-traded fund business, according to people familiar with the situation. Barclays PLC, which was said to be interested in the Equity Markets and Commodities...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that Coca-Cola Co.’s advertising for Diet Coke misleads people into thinking that consuming the soft drink assists in weight loss, and that it actually causes weight gain. The plaintiff, Shana Becerra, claimed that she and others would not have...

A cavernous bunker on a remote island above the Arctic Circle, where polar bears roam, holds the key to 12,000 years of agriculture but also to food supplies for future generations with countries urged to deposit seed samples there. Welcome to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which turned 10...

The Russian Embassy in Washington has a new address, at least symbolically. A one-block section of Wisconsin Avenue directly in front of the embassy was officially renamed Boris Nemtsov Plaza Tuesday, in what amounts to a D.C.-sponsored effort to troll the Russian government. A former...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS news agency said 30 people, mostly women and children, were killed on Wednesday in the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. The strikes targeted the tow of al-Sha'fah near the Iraqi border, topping the death of U.S.-led...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed 15 troops on Wednesday and wounded 20 more as regime forces launched a ground assault on the edge of the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, seeking to gain territory despite a Russian plan for five-hour daily ceasefires, a war monitor and sources on both...

A Saudi court sentenced human rights activist Issa al-Nukheifi to six years in prison on Wednesday over tweets critical of the government, a rights group said, confirming a Saudi newspaper report. Saudi newspaper Okaz said the defendant, who it did not identify, was accused of criticising...

The civilian death toll in Eastern Ghouta since Syria and its ally Russia intensified their bombardment of the rebel enclave on February 18 topped 600 Wednesday, a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 147 of the 601 civilians killed, mostly in air strikes,...

WASHINGTON (AP)- President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman is maintaining his innocence as he faces charges he acted as an unregistered foreign agent and directed an international money-laundering conspiracy. Paul Manafort's formal plea of not guilty came Wednesday during a...