Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson discussed the situation in northern Syria in a telephone call Wednesday, according to the official website of the Russian foreign service. “Discussed the situation with the Syrian settlement, including the course...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria said that peace talks due to resume in Vienna Thursday are taking place "at a very, very critical moment". "Definitely I am optimistic because it is the only way to be at such moments," Staffan de Mistura said Wednesday. "It is a very, very critical...

One person was killed and 13 others were wounded in the Turkish border province of Kilis Wednesday in rockets launched from Syria, Governor Mehmet Tekinarslan said. The rockets hit two locations in the city center, including a mosque during prayer times, Governor Mehmet Tekinarslan...

The United States tightened its economic crackdown on North Korea over its nuclear arms program Wednesday, imposing sanctions on nine entities, 16 people and six ships it accused of helping Pyongyang develop weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. Treasury said it imposed sanctions on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians killed in Russian airstrikes on northern Idlib province, local activists and rescuing group said on Wednesday. The Napalm attack hit the town of Sanqara in the western countryside of Idlib. Meanwhile, clashes continued between Hayat Tahrir...

Workers on the Myanmar side of the border with Bangladesh laid bricks, dug ditches and drilled holes in building frames in preparation Wednesday for the possible repatriation of some of the Rohingya Muslims who have poured into Bangladesh in what's become the world's worst refugee crisis....

US President Donald Trump is aiming to be the "best salesperson" for American economic interests when he goes to Davos later this week, the White House said Tuesday. Trump is set to speak Friday at the World Economic Forum, an annual gathering of the global pro-trade elite at the Swiss...

The Syrian regime said Wednesday that claims by the French and U.S. foreign ministers that it was still using chemical weapons were "lies". On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the Syrian government may still be using chemical weapons, following a suspected...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed factions may join the National Dialogue Congress in Sochi at the end of January after a shift in the opposition's stance that met with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Monday. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl the new move come due to the...

U.S., British and German volunteers who have fought Daesh (ISIS) with Kurdish-led forces in Syria are in the Afrin region to battle a Turkish assault there, an official with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said Wednesday. The Kurdish Afrin region is being targeted in an...

Three French women who joined Daesh (ISIS) before being captured by Iraqi forces could be facing the death penalty as they await trial in Baghdad, sources close to their cases told AFP. The women were detained after Iraqi fighters ousted the militants from Mosul last July, one source said,...

The US-led international coalition fighting ISIS said it killed nearly 150 militants in strikes on Saturday in the Syrian middle Euphrates River Valley. The latest strikes come as the United States urged Turkey to show restraint in its campaign against Kurdish forces in northern Syria...

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the detention of at least four journalists in Turkey after they criticized its incursion into northern Syria, and urged Turkish authorities to release the journalists and allow the media to report without fear of reprisal. Police detained...

A double car bombing in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi Tuesday left at least 11 people dead and others wounded, according to officials and a Reuters witness. The attack happened in the Benghazi's Al Salmani district as worshippers were leaving a local mosque after prayers.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Abbas al-Faouri, a Syrian refugee in Jordan, has invented a laser microscope that can be used to study microbes and bacteria in their natural environment and use them in the fields of medicine and laboratory analysis. The laser microscope can also be used in universities and...

Turkey backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberated a village in northwestern Syria's Afrin Tuesday, according to Anadolu Agency correspondent in the field. The FSA in cooperation with Turkish Armed Forces cleared the village of all PYD/PKK terrorists. The village located in Rajo...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Tuesday said Russia bore responsibility for recent chemical attacks by the Syrian government, which Moscow backs in the country's civil war. "Only yesterday more than 20 civilians, most of them children, were victims of an apparent chlorine gas...

The last challenger seen as a potential threat to the re-election of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi abruptly ended his campaign on Tuesday after the army accused him of violating military law by running for office without permission. A security source and members of the...

France announced Tuesday that it was sanctioning 25 people and companies over their links to Syria's chemical weapons program, as diplomats were set to meet in Paris to push for action against perpetrators of the deadly attacks. The list published in the government's official gazette...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior commander in the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army said dozen of Kurdish YPG militia were taken captive amid state of panic as the Turkish army stepped up its ground and aerial campaign on the border town of Afrin. Azad Sha’bo, a Kurdish commander in the FSA...