The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Saturday demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria "without delay" to deliver humanitarian aid to millions and evacuate the critically ill and wounded. The vote was delayed for two days to try to get support from Russia, which...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian Islamist alliance said the commander-in-chief of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham along with three senior commanders are wanted for the the 'revolutionary justice'  on various charges including incitement and participation in the killing of the Syrians. Abu Mohammad...

Four elderly villagers, including a Kurdish couple, who were recently rescued by Turkish soldiers in northwestern Syria, narrated their ordeal to Anadolu Agency on Saturday. The soldiers found the villagers with their hands tied in a barn at Maskah village in northwestern Afrin on...

KABUL (AFP)- At least 23 people, mostly soldiers, were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a series of attacks and suicide bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest assaults on the war-torn country's beleaguered security forces. In the biggest attack, Taliban...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources in Homs province reported that most of the sectarian militias fighting alongside Assad's estimated to be 10,000 troops, have not been paid for six months, and that about half of them have joined the regime army in the last few weeks . The sources...

Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has decried relentless regime attacks on Syria's Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta as "crimes against humanity".  "Regardless of political differences, what is going on in Eastern Ghouta is a crime against humanity," Tamim said on...

YANGON (AFP)- Three bombs exploded early Saturday in the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state, a cauldron of ethnic tensions roiled by insurgencies and a military crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya, injuring one police officer, officials said. The three blasts at separate locations around...

MOGADISHU (Reuters)- The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital late on Friday has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18, a senior government official said on Saturday. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack near the...

As the Syrian regime escalates its attacks on opposition-held suburbs of Damascus, rebels in outlying towns are retaliating with volleys of mortar shells and rockets into the capital, killing more than 25 civilians in the past two weeks and spreading fear among its 4 million residents....

NEW YORK (AP) - The National Rifle Association is facing a corporate backlash as companies take a closer look at their investments, co-branding deals and other ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre. A handful of companies have ended discount programs with the NRA...

Back to school and back to business for the school's staff, but life will never be the same for this Floridan community after 17 of its young people lost their lives. Teachers have begun to return to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to prepare for students to return to class next...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition airstrikes on a school sheltering displaced people have killed at least 25 in an ISIS-held village at the Iraqi border, the group’s news agency said Saturday. Amaq said Friday's strikes hit a school in the al-Sha’fah village near Al Bukamal town....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 3 people were killed early Saturday in Harasta suburb as regime forces stepped up its bloody offensive on the embattled eastern enclave of Damascus, local activists said.  The Civil Defense rescuing agency said  regime forces have pounded Eastern...

TOKYO (Reuters)- Japanese engineering researchers say they have created a tiny electronic light the size of a firefly that rides waves of ultrasound and could eventually figure in applications ranging from moving displays to projection mapping. Named Luciola for its resemblance to the firefly,...

Saying there are "no words" to describe a horror is infuriating. But now not saying anything has become the new way to talk about the world's nastiest war. It is essentially the job of the United Nations to find the words -- to articulate the savagery being again unleashed on the people...

Like most teenagers, 15-year-old Muhammad Najem spends a lot of time posting selfie videos on social media. Unlike most teenagers, Najem makes his videos in Syria as airstrikes rain bombs onto his street and kill his friends. "The children of Ghouta die every day by the bombing of the...

The United States will continue its campaign of putting “maximum pressure” on North Korea, said the White House press secretary Saturday.  Accompanied by an American delegation at the Winter Olympics in South Korea, Sarah Sanders, the press secretary, was speaking to reporters....

A local court in Belgium ruled on Friday that a headscarf ban at local schools was against religious freedom.  Parents of 11 students took action against a ban on the headscarf at Flemish schools in the Maasmechelen region.  The court said that it took into account...

More than one in ten French women have been raped at least once, according to a study on sexual violence published Friday as the global abuse scandal widens. Twelve percent of the 2,167 women polled by the Fondation Jean Jaures think tank said they had suffered "sexual penetration with...

German high-end carmaker BMW on Friday recalled thousands of diesel cars for a software update, after reports it had admitted to authorities they released more harmful emissions on the road than in the lab. BMW "noticed during internal testing that correctly programmed software was...