Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday it would conduct a new, comprehensive search of its records for possible propaganda that Russian operatives may have spread during the run-up to Britain’s 2016 referendum on EU membership. Some British lawmakers had complained that the world’s...

At least one Palestinian gunman was killed in a raid by Israeli armed forces on the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank late on Wednesday, Palestinian health officials and local residents said. Israeli officials declined initially to comment on the incident which was under a...

A Russian radio station says the man who stabbed and seriously wounded one of its journalists has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Ekho Moskvy host and deputy editor-in-chief Tatyana Felgenhauer was stabbed in the neck at the station's Moscow office on Oct. 23. The attacker, Boris...

The Palestinian president Wednesday again blasted Donald Trump in a fiery and emotional speech, saying the U.S. leader's decision to recognize contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital was "sinful" and "ill-fated." Mahmoud Abbas, who has openly cursed Trump over his policies, told a...

 Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has struck a deal to be interviewed by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team instead of appearing before a grand jury, CNN reported Wednesday, citing sources close to Bannon. The New York Times said on Tuesday Bannon had been...

A Saudi Arabian preacher was shot dead in Guinea's east after organizing a prayer service that angered some villagers in the majority-Muslim West African country, local sources said Wednesday. The man, who was a member of a mission building mosques in Upper Guinea, was killed Tuesday...

The European Union Wednesday accused Russia of pumping out thousands of pieces of disinformation in an "orchestrated strategy" aimed at destabilizing the bloc. Russia faces a barrage of accusations of interfering in a string of seismic political events, including the British vote to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) has recruited about 1000 young men from Hasaka and Deir Ez Zor provinces in its militia, most of whom are teachers in the Autonomous Administration  in northern Syria. According to Mohanad al-Yousef, an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians, including a woman and an a child, were killed when regime artillery pounded the town of Nawa in southern Daraa province in a new violation to de-escalation zone agreement, field sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. The bombardment targeted a...

Syria's main opposition group Wednesday condemned the U.S.-led coalition's plan to create a 30,000-strong border force on the war-torn country's northern frontier with Turkey. The alliance fighting Daesh (ISIS) announced on Sunday that it was working with Arab and Kurdish fighters from...

An Israeli military judge Wednesday ordered a Palestinian teenager arrested after a viral video showed her hitting two Israeli soldiers held in custody through her trial. "I found no alternative other than to order her detention in custody until the end of proceedings," the judge ruled,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 57 regime fighters from coastal Latakia province have been killed in the last six weeks, according to local activists. The death toll of Bashar al-Assad’s hometown increased after a counter attack by rebels in the northern province of Idlib and in the eastern...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the conflict in Syria and the humanitarian situation in a phone conversation, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. "The ministers discussed preparations for the Syrian National Dialogue...

U.S. authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a former CIA agent, Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, after discovering he had an unauthorized notebook that had the identities of undercover U.S. spies. Lee, a naturalized U.S. national also known as Zhen Cheng Li, was arrested...

The wives and children of French extremists captured in Syria have filed a legal complaint against French authorities for refusing to repatriate them, their lawyers announced Wednesday. The question of what to do with some 40 captured extremists - men and women, accompanied by around 20...

 Seven French prison officers were hurt when an Islamist convict attacked them as he resisted a search, while guards resumed a strike Tuesday demanding better security in jails nationwide. The latest assault, which took place in a prison in southwestern France Monday, came just...

The U.S. on Tuesday said it was suspending a total of $65 million in aid to Palestine “for future consideration.” “It's not being canceled. It's just being held for future consideration,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a press briefing. Nauert added that $60...

An internal solution to the problems in Syria "would be much better,” the head of the UN said Tuesday. “If Syrians could solve their own problems it would be much better,” Antonio Guterres told reporters during a news conference at the UN headquarters. Guterres emphasized that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four rebel fighters killed in regime artillery shelling in southern Daraa province, local activists said on Tuesday. The new violation for the de-escalation zone in southern Syria targeted the region of Allajat near the Jordanian border. The regime bombardment...

The U.S. acknowledges Turkey's concern over its plans for a border security force in Syria dominated by terrorist elements, and "close communications" with Turkey continue, according to the Pentagon. “We acknowledge Turkey’s concerns regarding these [Border] Security Forces being...