Human Rights Watch called on Ankara on Saturday to stop using "lethal force" against Syrians trying to cross into Turkey, urging it to open its border to those seeking asylum. A major offensive waged by Syrian government troops in the northwestern province of Idlib has displaced...

The Israeli government is due on Sunday to discuss giving retroactive approval to a wildcat settlement in the occupied West Bank, where an Israeli rabbi was shot dead last month. The official agenda for Sunday's weekly cabinet meeting says ministers will hear a motion to designate...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian foreign ministry denied on Saturday U.S. allegations it had used chemical weapons against rebel-held Eastern Ghouta enclave near Damascus, saying the accusations were "lies" without evidence. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday the Syrian...

(Zambian Al Wasl)- Rebel fighters shot down a Russian Su-25 warplane over Syria's north-west Idlib province on Saturday. Russia's defence ministry said the pilot died after ejecting by parachute, according to TASS news agency. No group immediately claimed responsibility for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people killed and dozen more wounded in heavy air strikes on northern town of Saraqeb, Civil Defense agency said on Saturday. The key town in northwestern province of Idlib has endured to heavy aerial bombing during the week. The rescuing group said...

Archaeologists in Egypt say they have discovered a 4,400-year-old tomb near the pyramids outside Cairo. Egypt's Antiquities Ministry announced the discovery Saturday and said the tomb likely belonged to a high-ranking official known as Hetpet during the 5th Dynasty of ancient Egypt. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 500 regime troops and allied militants killed by ISIS, rebels and former al-Qaeda group in January, local monitoring units said. The high death toll come as regime backed by Russia's heavy aerial bombing launched major attacks in the embattled enclave of...

Turkish troops are getting closer to Syria's Afrin city center, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday. Turkey's ongoing Operation Olive Branch in Afrin is now in its third week.  Speaking at an ordinary congress of his ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party...

Four civilians were injured when the PYD/PKK terror group fired seven missiles from Syria's Afrin on a marketplace in Azaz district near the Turkish border on Saturday, according to a hospital official. One of the injured is in serious condition, an administrative official at Azaz...

More than 80 Syrian refugees have been rescued off the Mediterranean province of Mersin after their overloaded boat ran into engine trouble, according to a statement from the regional governor's office on Saturday. Coast Guard crews on Friday launched a rescue operation as soon as...

Israeli forces detained five Palestinians during a raid in the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday.  Israeli forces surrounded several houses in al-Kufayr and Barqin villages in southern Jenin in search of Ahmed Jarrar, accused by Israeli authorities of killing a...

Iraqi forces on Saturday launched a military operation near Saudi border to clear the area from Daesh militants, according to a senior military commander.   "The operation aims to chase Daesh remnants in the western desert and destroy their positions and hideouts," Anbar...

Greek Cypriots are gearing up for a presidential runoff on Sunday, barely seven months after the latest failure to reunify the eastern Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. President Nicos Anastasiades is looking to reprise his triumph over left-leaning Stavros Malas in 2013 when...

Desperate to escape Syria’s terrors, Ammar Maarawi bolted. In early 2016, he paid smugglers and endured a dangerous sea crossing to Greece and an exhausting journey by train, bus and foot through Europe. Two years later, the 36-year-old is back home in Aleppo. He returned last summer –...

By  Yasser Ashkar The Assad regime had a dialogue with itself in Sochi. The event had more of a carnival atmosphere than that of a serious peace talks while the lives of civilians in Syria and the future of millions of Syrian refugees still hung in the balance.    There was also...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Several plastic mannequins appeared on window shops in the town of Atareb in northern Aleppo province. The faces were marked by red and blue to show bruises.  They wrote statements next to the mannequins encouraging men to treat women...

Myanmar on Saturday denied that there were five mass graves of Rohingya Muslims in a village in crisis-hit Rakhine state, saying that 19 "terrorists" had been killed and buried in the area. The Associated Press used testimony from dozens of Rohingya refugees and time-stamped cell...

US immigration officials said Friday they raided 77 California businesses this week as operations intensify in the state, whose own authorities are defying President Donald Trump's hard line on immigration by not cooperating with federal enforcement agents. The raids took place in...

NEHM, Yemen/DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pumped billions of dollars into fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen, but the Gulf states’ three-year campaign risks being derailed after their local allies turned on each other this week. It was a serious...

Saudi Arabia increased its payments to some members of the royal family just as officials were wrapping up a controversial anti-corruption campaign that targeted some of the kingdom’s richest men and most prominent princes, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The most...