Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish jets have resumed airstrikes in the Syrian Kurdish-run enclave of Afrin after a brief lull. Anadolu Agency said F-16 jets resumed their aerial bombing campaign late on Thursday. Unconfirmed Turkish media reports had Turkey had halted...

The finance ministers and central bank governors of France and Germany called for the policy and monetary implications of crypto-currencies to be placed on the agenda of the upcoming G20 meeting of the largest advanced and developing economies. In a letter to the finance minister of...

Twitter Thursday reported its first-ever quarterly profit, a key milestone that sent shares soaring at the social network which has lagged for years behind fast-growing rivals. Twitter shares leapt 18 percent to $31.77 - their highest levels in over a year - as the San Francisco-based...

Citing recent reports of the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons, the United States Thursday said it backs a call from the United Nations to put violence in Syria on pause for a month in order to deliver humanitarian aid and facilitate the evacuation of 700 civilians. "We are...

The Trump administration is considering making it harder for foreigners living in the United States to get permanent residency if they have received certain public benefits such as food assistance, in a move that could sharply restrict legal immigration. The Department of Homeland Security...

A suicide bombing killed one person in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi Thursday, the first such attack since government forces retook it from militants, police and medics said. "A man driving a motorcycle blew himself up outside a police checkpoint," in Ramadi, a police captain said....

Four days of ferocious Syrian government raids on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta have killed more than 216 civilians, a war monitor said Thursday. Syrian regime troops have waged an intense air campaign on Eastern Ghouta since Monday that has left at least 207 civilians dead...

U.S. forces in Afghanistan have attacked networks of anti-China militants in action likely to please Beijing which had called for Western cooperation in its fight against the group it says wants to split off its Xinjiang region. The strikes in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least six people, including children, have been killed in fresh airstrikes on northern Idlib province targeting two schools, Civil Defense rescuing group said. The strikes hit the town of Meshemshan following a bloody Wednesday where the Russian and  Syrian...

France will encourage its firms to do business in Iran despite uncertainty over a landmark 2015 nuclear deal putting the business environment in "limbo," a senior French finance official said Thursday. Along with other European countries, France has been looking to increase trade with...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has lashed out at the country's chief of police ahead of an expected announcement concerning a corruption probe into the long-standing leader. Police Chief Roni Alsheikh said on Wednesday that "powerful figures" had hired people to "sniff...

   A fourth consecutive day of heavy regime bombing raids on the rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta near Damascus killed 51 civilians Thursday, a monitor said. The civilian toll was first reported at nine Thursday morning but almost immediately began to rise, mirroring...

(Zaman Al Wasl) The Islamic State's policy in recruiting children and turning schools into shelters for the displaced has contributed to the suspension of the educational process in Deir Ez Zor province, making more than 300,000 children out of school for almost three years. Khaled...

Iran rejected an accusation by Bahrain that it was involved in an oil pipeline bombing in the Sunni-ruled kingdom, accusing its rival of making "false claims". Bahrain said Wednesday that it had arrested four men suspected of attacking the Saudi Aramco pipeline on November 10,...

Israel's supreme court Thursday rejected an appeal by three members of a Jewish gang convicted of kidnapping, beating and burning alive a Palestinian teenager in 2014. The decision upholds life sentences for two of them and a 21-year jail term for the third over the chilling...

Turkey on Thursday said it planned to host in Istanbul a new three-way summit on Syria with the presidents of Russia and Iran aimed at reviving a drive to bring peace to the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to hold the summit in...

Israel named a new ambassador to Jordan on Thursday, the foreign ministry announced, bringing to an end a months-long spat sparked by a deadly shooting. The foreign ministry named Amir Weissbrod as the new ambassador, the first since the incident at the Israeli embassy in Amman...

MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia sold around $15 billion worth of weapons in 2017, maintaining a similar level of sales to the previous year, the country's agency responsible for military exports Rosoboronexport said on Wednesday. "In 2017 Rosoboronexport signed contracts worth approximately...

The US military launched air strikes on regime-backed troops Wednesday after as many as 500 attackers began what a US military official said appeared to be a coordinated assault on Syrian opposition forces accompanied by US advisers. The official said the strikes were in self-defence...

Turkey and Iran are violating international law through their actions in Syria, said France's foreign minister on Wednesday, demanding that all Iranian-backed militia, including Lebanon's Hizballah, pulls out of the country. Jean-Yves Le Drian, speaking on BFM television, added that...