Two Israeli soldiers narrowly escaped Monday after they were attacked when they mistakenly drove into a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank, the army said. "Earlier today, an IDF vehicle accidentally entered Jenin, north of Jerusalem," the military wrote on Twitter....

Syria's Kurds said Monday they have "no problem" if the regime in Damascus intervenes on their side to help push back an assault by Turkey in the Afrin region. Ankara has been waging an offensive against Syria's Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia in the frontier region...

Some $1.68 billion was disbursed last year by UN and non-governmental organizations to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon, a UN official said Monday. In a statement, however, Philippe Lazzarini, the deputy UN special coordinator for Lebanon, said the disbursements only covered roughly 45...

Saudi Arabia is debunking age-old stereotypes one theatrical move at a time. The significance of this remark will not be lost on those following the reforms taking place at large, primarily in Saudi but also in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region as a whole. In...

Zaman Al Wasl will launch a huge search engine including data and names of 1,500,000 people wanted for the Syrian regime, including warrants of arrest, interrogation and travel ban. Syria’s first enormous search engine is also including names of 250,000 women. Zaman...

The mayor of the Turkish capital of Ankara said Monday he had approved re-naming a street outside the U.S. Embassy as "Olive Branch," the name Turkey uses for its ongoing military campaign in Syria. Ankara has been infuriated by Washington's alliance in Syria with forces led by the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he has been discussing legislation with the United States that would effectively annex settlements in the occupied West Bank, a spokesman said. The move would severely harm remaining prospects for a two-state solution to the...

The Saudi public prosecutor's office said Monday it will recruit women as investigators for the first time, as the kingdom seeks to boost female employment under a reform plan for a post-oil era. "Vacancies are available in women's positions on the staff of the public prosecution for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists from the eastern region of Qalamoun in Damascus countryside told Zaman al-Wasl that Russia has recently received the command of the 3rd Division, one of the Syrian regime’s most important military formations from the regime. The division is based in the city of...

The United States is lobbying its partners to let their fighters from the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) return home from Syria to face justice there. Top U.S. officials are calling on coalition allies to repatriate the foreign fighters who have been captured by the Syrian Kurds....

An Iraqi interior ministry official said Daesh’s (ISIS) head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive and being treated at a field hospital in Syria after being wounded in an air strike. "We have irrefutable information and documents from sources within the terrorist organization that al-Baghdadi...

A video purportedly by Daesh’s (ISIS) affiliate in Egypt is calling on its fighters to stage attacks during next month's presidential elections and warning Egyptians to stay away from polling centers. The authenticity of the 23-minute video posted late Sunday on websites known to be...

The European Union's executive Monday said the warring Syrian parties and their regional allies should show restraint to avoid a further spiral of violence in the region. In the most serious confrontations yet between Israel and Iranian-backed forces in Syria, an anti-aircraft fire...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (Islamic State) fighters took a village from rebels in northern Idlib province on Monday after heavy clashes began three days ago, local activists said. The ISIS advance in the southern countryside of Idlib followed a coordiantion between the radical group and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 civilians, including family members, were killed early Monday as regime forces renew its heavy aerial bombing on the embattled eastern enclave of Damascus, rescuing group and local activists said. The strikes pounded the towns of Douma, Irbin, Harasta, Saqba,...

Egyptian security forces killed 12 militants and arrested 92 in a continuing crackdown in Sinai, the army said in a statement carried by State TV on Monday. Egypt's air force also destroyed 60 militant targets, the statement said, part of a campaign to crush Islamist insurgents blamed...

It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military can foot the bill for thousands more troops, more training, more ships and a lot else. And next year it...

Iranian telecommunication officials are saying that hackers who accessed the websites of some of the country's dailies are from the United States and Britain. A Sunday statement carried by the official IRNA news agency quotes the officials as saying the hackers targeted 30 websites on...

US President Donald Trump said in an interview published Sunday that he was "not necessarily sure" Israel was seeking to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians. Trump has previously denounced the Palestinians for what he sees as their unwillingness to negotiate, but he has...

Austria's skiing federation (OSV) president warned on Sunday that allegations of sexual abuse by former skiers against a retired coach could hurt the current Olympic team in Pyeongchang. If the allegations are proven, "an apology will clearly be necessary" Peter Schrocksnadel told...