( Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl publishes a new batch of the Assad family's criminal records as Bashar al-Assad says “we lost our finest youth and infrastructure, but we won a healthier and homogeneous society."  Perhaps our newspaper gives Syrians and others...

The body of a Syrian woman who reportedly died a month ago was found Tuesday in the vicinity of the Al-Masnaa border crossing in east Lebanon, a security source said.

France's foreign minister is expressing annoyance that the Trump administration is pressuring European allies to redesign the Iranian nuclear deal to fit U.S. needs. Jean-Yves Le Drian was bracing for tense discussions in Paris on Tuesday with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex...

The Turkish army was Tuesday engaged in intense clashes with Kurdish militia inside Syria as the United States voiced alarm Ankara's operation could endanger attempts to bring peace to the conflict-torn country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed at the funeral of the first Turkish...

United Nations peacekeepers are returning to the only U.N. base in South Sudan "clearly" in an area under opposition control as residents hope for protection from what they call growing attacks by government troops. It will be the first U.N. peacekeeper presence in Akobo since 2013,...

A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader has written an open letter from exile to a retired Egyptian army general seeking to run for president, listing the outlawed group's conditions for supporting his candidacy. Youssef Nada's letter was posted on his Facebook account on Monday....

Facebook acknowledged Monday that the explosion of social media poses a potential threat to democracy, pledging to tackle the problem head-on and turn its powerful platform into a force for "good". The comments from the world's biggest social network were its latest response to intense...

Decrying the worsening situation in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region, the head of Syria’s opposition delegation said Monday that helping civilians must be prioritized. “The situation in Eastern Ghouta is causing serious concern, and the last three months were the worst ever for this...

A senior Al-Qaeda leader has called on Muslims "everywhere" to rise up and kill Jews and Americans in response to US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. In a video released Monday, Khalid Batarfi said Trump's decision was "a declaration of a...

Russian pension funds are considering investing in Saudi Arabian state oil major Aramco when it lists its stock in a move to strengthen the partnership between the world's two top oil producers, Russia's top state investment officer said. The head of Russia's Direct Investment Fund,...

Syria’s main opposition group said Monday it needed “full and clear information” from Russia before it would  agree to take part in peace talks to be held in Sochi next week. The comments came during a visit by the Syrian Negotiations Commission (SNC) to Moscow as Russia gets...

Athens said Monday it will hold talks with Skopje this week amid a renewed UN-backed push to solve a name row that has poisoned relations between the neighbours and sparked protests in Greece. Athens argues that the name Macedonia suggests that Skopje has territorial claims to Greece's...

Saudi-led coalition aircraft on Monday struck a building in northern Yemen that housed a clinic, killing seven people, five of them children, residents said, the latest in a series of raids that have drawn international condemnation. A spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition had no...

The White House Monday urged Turkey to exercise restraint after Turkish forces launched a military campaign in Syria's Afrin region, warning that the campaign risked exacerbating a humanitarian crisis and disrupting what had been a stable area. "We urge Turkey to exercise restraint in...

The U.S. government's aid chief, Mark Green, made an unannounced visit to Raqqa in Syria Monday, the most senior U.S. civilian official to visit the war-struck city months after American-backed militia retook the area from Daesh (ISIS). Green was accompanied by the head of the U.S....

Russia said Monday it had invited Kurds to take part in an upcoming Syrian peace congress in Sochi, despite a Turkish offensive against Kurdish militia in northern Syria. Together with regime backer Iran and rebel supporter Turkey, Russia - a key backer of Syrian President Bashar Assad...

The United Nations is ready to help people who might flee from the Afrin enclave, where Turkish troops are on the offensive against Kurdish fighters, the top U.N. official in Syria said Monday. Ali al-Zatari told The Associated Press in his office in western Damascus that they are...

The PYD/PKK terror group has released all Daesh prisoners under the condition that they will fight against Turkish army and Free Syrian Army (FSA) in Syria's Afrin region, according to local sources Monday. The terrorist group struck a deal with Daesh terrorists for using them as a...

Rescue workers in a Syrian rebel-held enclave east of Damascus accused government forces of using chlorine gas during bombardment of the area on Monday, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 13 people had suffered suffocation.   The regime army and government...

The number of Syrian refugees who froze to death due to a snowstorm in eastern Lebanon rose to 17 in three days, according to the Lebanese Civil Defense source. Two more bodies were found late Sunday, the source said. Lebanese soldiers found the bodies, identified as a...