The Grammys – often derided as a tone-deaf music industry lovefest – will take on new relevance this year, as hip-hop artists for the first time are leading the pack. But after a tumultuous 2017 marked by racial strife and a nationwide reckoning about sexual harassment, the Grammys also...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed on Sunday in Russian airstrikes hit the northern province of Idlib, Civil Defense agency said. Eight civilians, including family members and pregnant woman, have been killed in the town of Saraqeb,...

Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army units (FSA) on Sunday celebrated the capture of strategic Mount Bursaya in northern Syria by unfurling flags of Turkey and the FSA. According to the Turkish General Staff, the strategic peak was captured by the Turkish military and FSA...

 Jordan has marked the U.S. delivery of 12 Black Hawk helicopters over the past nine months with a military ceremony, including a hostage rescue drill and a flyover. The helicopters are meant to help secure the borders of Jordan against external threats, including from Daesh (ISIS)...

Police blocked dozens of women from attending a football match Sunday in the Gaza Strip, in what activists said they hoped would have been the first such permission under Hamas' rule. Authorities in the Palestinian enclave run by the Hamas movement told the women they had orders not to...

ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan: Movie star Angelina Jolie visited a camp for Syrian refugees in Jordan Sunday, calling for a political solution to Syria's long-running civil war and saying that "humanitarian aid is not a long-term solution." Children crowded around the U.S. actress as she...

Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani sent condolences Sunday to the president of the United Arab Emirates, whose mother has died, despite the diplomatic rift between the two countries. The emir sent a cable "to HH President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Khalifa bin...

Turkey will clean its entire border with Syria of terrorists, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, in a sign that a nine-day-old Turkish offensive into northern Syria's Afrin region could be extended further. Speaking at a congress of his ruling AK Party in the northern...

Iranian media say a naval destroyer has sunk in the Caspian Sea after crashing into a breakwater earlier this month. Mizan Online showed footage Sunday of the Damavand, which crashed on Jan. 10 during a storm, killing two crew members. The 100-meter long destroyer, which...

Back where his career resurgence began with a drought-breaking title last year, Roger Federer cried as he lifted and kissed the Australian Open trophy for a sixth time and celebrated his 20th Grand Slam title. Federer started with an intensity that stunned sixth-seeded Marin...

Heavy fighting resumed in Syria's Eastern Ghouta Sunday after a short period of relative calm following reports that a cease-fire had been agreed there late Friday, a war monitor and pro-government media sources said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war...

The Syrian regime and a war monitor said Sunday that Turkish shelling of the Kurdish-held Afrin region of Syria had seriously damaged an ancient temple. Ain Dara is an iron age temple with remains of large carved basalt blocks and wall reliefs. Pictures circulating online, which...

At least seven people watching a football match have been shot dead in Mexico, sources said Saturday, adding to the country's murder toll which last year hit a two-decade high. The latest killings - after more than 25,000 last year - happened in Monterrey, an industrial hub in the...

A female Kurdish fighter has reportedly carried a suicide bomb attack on Turkish military forces in Syria, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The grenade attack is believed to have killed two Turkish soldiers and destroyed an army attack. The 20-year-old woman was...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- As Afrin military operation continues to form a new scene in the north of Syria with the force of military action, the repercussions of this military process continue to affect the political level of the states and parties, even to militias structured...

Several people were killed and injured as armed groups fought each other in the southern Yemeni city of Aden Sunday, medical staff at hospitals in the city said. Gunmen were deployed throughout most districts of the city and there was heavy gunfire, according to reports from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 civilians killed on Sunday as regime forces stepped up aerial and ground bombing on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, local activists said. The bombardment of the rebel-held eastern enclave of Damascus continued since Saturday after  collapse of...

WARSAW (Reuters) - After an exhausting night ascent a rescue mission found the French mountaineer Elisabeth Revol on the slopes of Pakistan’s treacherous “Killer Mountain”, but a Polish climber who had been with her remained missing, Poland’s winter climbing team said. Revol and...

KABUL (Reuters) - A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded about 158 in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint in a busy part of the city that was crowded with pedestrians. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the...

Turkey's Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar on Saturday paid a visit to bordering provinces of Sanliurfa, Hatay and Kilis to inspect troops, which are taking part in Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin. According to a statement by the Turkish General Staff, Akar was...