ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Four people were killed on Monday in a second day of fighting between rival factions seeking control of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, where the internationally recognised administration is based, witnesses and officials said. The clashes between...

On January 20, Turkey began to fulfill its many threats against the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in north-western Syria by launching Operation Olive Branch.  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to remove the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) from the canton and has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six Islamist fighters and one civilian have been killed in car bomb attack in southern Daraa province, field sources said Monday. The blast targeted Hayat Tahrir al-Sham personnel in the town of al-Msaifra in the eastern countryside. A senior commander in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees live very hard humanitarian conditions in al-Rukban Camp at Jordanian border due to neglect and lack of support from international relief organizations especially in winter. Spokesman of al-Badiya Now Page Abdul Kareem Abdullah told Zaman al-Wasl, "the...

A group of Gazans were allowed to farm their land near the border with Israel for the first time since 2006 Monday after a deal agreed with Israeli authorities. The deal, brokered by the International Committee of the Red Cross, saw around a dozen farmers set foot on land they had...

Iranian authorities have granted limited visiting rights to reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, under house arrest following protests sparked by a contested 2009 election, two media outlets reported Monday. Mousavi, 75, his wife Zahra Rahnavard and fellow reformist Mehdi...

Prosecutors Monday launched an investigation into a Turkish medical association after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacted angrily to a statement denouncing Ankara's military operation against a Syrian Kurdish militia. Turkey launched a cross-border offensive dubbed "Olive...

 A hospital in Gaza stopped services Monday after it ran out of fuel, the health ministry said, in a further example of a severe electricity shortage facing the blockaded Palestinian enclave. Beit Hanoun hospital in northern Gaza had "suspended medical services because of the...

MOSCOW/Donetsk, Ukraine (Reuters) - In the fall of 2015, pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine were introduced to a moustachioed new commander who, like his predecessors, went by the codename Tuman - “fog” in Russian. Also like his predecessors, he appeared to be a Russian national. He...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four children lost their lives in RPG shell exploded in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, local activists said Monday. Graneej, the newly-freed town from ISIS, still not cleaned from the ISIS-planted landmine and explosive devices.  The U.S.-backed...

At least 12 civilians were killed and 16 others injured in two airstrikes in Idlib province in northern Syria on Monday, according to an official with the White Helmets civil-defense agency.  A Russian warplane struck a marketplace in Saraqib city in the province, White Helmets...

Schools, clinics and food distribution centers in the Gaza Strip were closed Monday due to a one-day strike by the 13,000 employees of the United Nations agency that serves the Palestinians. The Palestinian employees have been angered by a U.S. decision to cut its annual...

A teenage mother who let her baby starve to death so she could party with friends has been jailed for just six and a half years. Viktoria Kuznetsova, 17, from Rostov, Russia, sat emotionless as her sentence was read out in court. The court was told that Kuznetsova had been planning...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Both Makhlouf and the Shalish families complemented the Assad's family-sectarian power triangle established by Hafez al-Assad in the 1970s. He appointed himself as their leader and then inherited it to Bashar, hiring members of these families in sensitive positions which...

More than half of the first line of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline project to deliver 35 percent of Turkey's gas needs has been completed, Gazprom officials, the project constructor, told visiting Turkish journalists at Novy Urengoy, Russia's biggest gas field and the world's...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - United Nations Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura will head a new constitutional commission that will be set up at a peace conference in Russia this week, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, citing official documents. Russia is hosting a two-day Syrian...

Militants attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital of Kabul on Monday, killing at least five soldiers and wounding 10, officials said. Hours later, ISIS claimed responsibility for the assault. The attack was the latest in a wave of relentless...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday night that Israel and Poland have agreed to hold talks seeking to resolve the uproar over proposed Polish legislation that would outlaw blaming Poland for any crimes committed during the Holocaust. Earlier, Israel's Foreign Ministry...

Saudi Arabia's Waleed al-Ibrahim will keep management control of regional television broadcaster MBC after his release from detention in the country's corruption probe, a senior MBC executive told Reuters Monday. The executive, speaking on condition of anonymity under briefing...

Bruno Mars owned the Grammys with his R&B-inspired album "24K Magic," winning all six awards he was nominated for at a show where hip-hop was expected to have a historical night. Jay-Z, the leading nominee with eight, walked away empty handed Sunday - a year after his wife...