Concerned over the devastating impact of escalating violence in Syria, where dozens of people in eastern Ghouta have been killed in recent airstrikes, and schools and hospitals are being deliberately destroyed, senior United Nations officials have underscored the obligation on all parties to...

Eleven people were killed and 46 injured when an Turkish intercity bus taking families bound for a half-term skiing trip crashed into trees while travelling on a motorway, local officials said. The bus, which was making an overnight journey from the capital Ankara to the western city of...

Turkey’s army said it shelled Kurdish positions in Syria’s Afrin region on Friday and Saturday, hitting shelters and hideouts used by militants from three groups, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), PYD and YPG. The militants had earlier fired on Turkish positions, the army said in a...

 Facebook Inc will begin to prioritize “trustworthy” news outlets on its stream of social media posts as it works to combat “sensationalism” and “misinformation,” Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday. The company, which has more than 2 billion monthly users, said it will...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Co-chairman of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) Riad Darar rejected the idea that the "border security forces" that the Washington-led International Coalition intends to establish in Syria is means to divide Syria.  The International Coalation against Islamic...

The Lebanese Army will take new measures to control illegal smuggling routes along Lebanon’s eastern border with Syria after 13 Syrian nationals died crossing the mountains into the country Friday, a military source said.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Friday his intention to run for a second term in office in a March election. Egypt is set to hold a presidential vote on March 26-28, with a run-off on April 24-26. Candidates must register between Jan. 20 and 29. Sisi came to...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday the Iran nuclear deal cannot survive if the United States pulls out of the agreement. U.S. President Donald Trump said a week ago that European allies and Congress have to work with him to fix "the disastrous flaws" in the nuclear pact...

Syrian armed opposition groups are on high alert for an anticipated Turkish military operation against the PYD/PKK terrorist group in the northwestern city of Afrin. Opposition fighters are now standing guard at observation posts set up in nearby de-escalation zones. On...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that Daesh (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq would be defeated militarily "in the coming weeks," as he laid out plans for bolstering France's defense capabilities. "Today, thanks to the efforts of all the nations involved, the Daesh military...

Intensified hostilities in Yemen have forced more than 32,000 people to flee their homes in the past two months, the United Nations refugee agency has said. They join some two million Yemenis already displaced by the war, the UNHCR said in a statement on Thursday. "The arrival...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed militia on Friday pounded a psychiatric hospital on the northern town of Azaz with heavy artillery, leaving 12 people mostly patients wounded, local reporter said. The border town with Turkey has endured to artillery shelling from the Syrian Democratic Forces....

The leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah on Friday accused Israel of carrying out a bomb attack that wounded a member of the Palestinian group Hamas in the Lebanese city of Sidon and called it an act of aggression. “The bomb that targeted a Hamas member in Sidon is a dangerous...

SAO PAULO, Brazil: Brazilian soccer great Pele has collapsed with exhaustion and been forced to cancel a long-planned trip to London this weekend, the Football Writers Association (FWA) said Friday. The FWA was due to host a dinner in his honor at the Savoy hotel on Sunday but said the...

Social media companies Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube have accelerated removals of online hate speech, reviewing more than two thirds of complaints within 24 hours, new EU figures show. The European Union has piled pressure on social media companies to increase their efforts to...

Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron will spend more than five hours together in Paris Friday, putting on a show of Franco-German unity as they try to agree on reforms to the euro zone. At an EU summit in Brussels last month, the two said they hoped to come up with...

Russia will abide by all of its international commitments, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday when asked about U.S. President Donald Trump's allegation that Moscow was in breach of U.N. sanctions on North Korea. Trump said in an interview with Reuters Wednesday that Russia...

Human Rights Watch accused Saudi Arabia Thursday of violating international humanitarian law in Yemen and stepping up arrests and prosecutions of activists seeking reform or voicing peaceful dissent. In its World Report 2018, which reviews human rights practices in more than 90...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said Turkish forces had fired around 70 shells at Kurdish villages in the Afrin region of northwestern Syria in a bombardment from Turkish territory that began around midnight and continued into Friday morning. Rojhat Roj, a YPG spokesman in Afrin, told...

Turkey has installed an electronic security system in its southernmost Hatay province on the border with Afrin, a Syrian town presently under the control of the terrorist PYD/PKK, military sources said. Having successfully passed the initial tests by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), the...