Political parties in provinces controlled by the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq will be heading to the country’s parliamentary elections on May 12 amid unstable economic and political conditions. In 2014’s general election, Kurds, as a second largest population in...

Moscow's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia on Wednesday called for a UN Security Council meeting on Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta.  Nebenzia asked the UN body to hold the meeting on Thursday. "We ask the the presidency to convene tomorrow an open meeting...

More than 100 girls were missing on Wednesday, police said, two days after a Boko Haram attack on their school in northeast Nigeria that has raised fears of a repeat of the 2014 Chibok kidnapping that shocked the world. Islamist militants stormed the Government Girls Science Secondary...

Now that one of Benjamin Netanyahu's closest confidants has turned state witness, according to Israeli media reports Wednesday, it may mark a turning point for the beleaguered prime minister facing a slew of corruption allegations that could topple him from power. The testimony by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A women killed and ten more people wounded in regime artillery fire in southern Daraa province, local activists said Wednesday. The heavy shelling targeted opposition-held areas in Daraa countryside in retaliation to mortar rounds hit the pro-regime  city of...

 The United States military says it has carried out an airstrike against al-Shabab extremists in Somalia, killing three "terrorists." The U.S. Africa Command statement says the airstrike occurred Monday near Jilib town in Middle Juba region. "We assess no civilians were killed in...

The International Committee of the Red Cross asked Wednesday for access to an enclave near Syria's capital where a regime aerial campaign has killed over 300 civilians and wounded 1,400 others this week. "The fighting appears likely to cause much more suffering in the days and weeks...

 Israel began Wednesday to install houses at its first new settlement in more than 25 years, AFP journalists at the scene said. A number of prefabricated mobile homes were delivered to the site that will become Amichai, the first new settlement sanctioned by the Israeli government...

In a similar fate to that of Pakistan girl Zainab Ansari, a four-year-old girl was recently raped and murdered in an Egyptian village in a case that has sparked outrage. The details surrounding the tragic case of Rodaina Abdou resembles much of what had happened to the Pakistani...

Israeli forces rounded up 20 Palestinians in overnight raids across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military on Wednesday. The individuals were arrested for "suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities," the army said in a statement without giving...

Turkey Wednesday said it would consider a "legitimate target" any group that comes to the aid of Kurdish militia in Afrin in northern Syria. The threat from presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin came a day after Syrian pro-regime forces entered Afrin, only to come under fire from Turkish...

The French government is set to unveil a tough new immigration bill Wednesday that is proving one of the most divisive of Emmanuel Macron's young presidency. The legislation, which criminalizes illegal border crossings and aims for quicker deportation of those deemed economic migrants,...

Moroccan authorities have broken up a Daesh cell in the North African country, according to the Moroccan Interior Ministry. In a statement on Wednesday, the ministry said six suspects had been detained in the northern city of Tangier for links to the Daesh terrorist group. The...

The Syrian Civil Defense rescue organization says 10 people have been killed by government airstrikes and shelling on a town in the suburbs of Damascus. The group, also known as the White Helmets, says government forces targeted Kafr Batna early Wednesday with air strikes, artillery...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- A daughter of Syian migrant has adopted the cases of refugees filled with nostalgia to her family hometown of Aleppo.  Nahla Othman, a lawyer specialized in asylum issues in Germany. 35 years ago, Othman’s father’s rights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army warned rebels faction operating in eastern Qalamoun region from taking any 'aggressive act' in support to besieged people in Eastern Ghouta suburbs, local activists said Wednesday. The commander of Russia-controlled The Third Division, said Eastern...

Turkey's population is expected to cross 100 million in 2040, the country's statistical authority said on Wednesday. Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) said on its website the population will tally 100.3 million in 2040 and is expected to hit the top in 2069 with 107.6 million....

Turkey will take all possible measures against child abusers, including chemical castration, and a commission will start working on the issue this week, Turkey’s justice minister said Wednesday. Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Abdulhamit Gul said the commission would work on new legal...

Israeli media are reporting that one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's closest confidants has turned state witness and will incriminate Netanyahu in corruption allegations. Police would not confirm Wednesday whether Shlomo Filber would testify, but all the major Israeli media...

High-profile Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab was sentenced to five years in jail Wednesday over tweets critical of the war in Yemen, two human rights groups said. Rajab, a leading figure in 2011 protests against the Gulf state's Sunni minority rulers, was already serving a two-year...