The representatives of various U.K.-based non-profit organizations reacted on Monday to a recent ban on their members from entering Israel. Israel on Sunday banned representatives of 20 NGOs working in the country from its territory due to their support for a campaign opposed to the...

Russia said Monday militants had used drones to attack its naval and air bases in Syria Saturday, Russian news agencies reported. The Russian Defense Ministry said there were no casualties or damage as a result of the attacks, which involved thirteen armed drones, on its Hmeimim air...

Conjoined twin girls born in the blockaded Gaza Strip were separated in "successful" surgery in Riyadh Monday, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said in a statement. Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Rabiah, who headed the team that operated on Farah and Haneen at the King Abdullah...

The U.N. migration agency has raised the probable death toll to 64 in the weekend sinking of a smugglers' rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea off Libya. The Italian coast guard, hours after the boat started sinking Saturday due to a puncture, rescued 86 people from it and retrieved...

Egyptian officials say two policemen have been taken into custody after the death of a detainee sparked clashes in the capital. Dozens of protesters tried to storm a police station in Cairo's Mokattam neighborhood on Saturday after a detainee held on drug-related suspicions died in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 civilians killed on Monday in heavy bombardments on besieged eastern Ghouta suburbs as opposition factions surrounded the regime army's only military base where 250 troops have been trapped, local activists said. Jaish al-Islam group backed by rebel factions...

Regime forces upped the pressure on two of the last rebel bastions in Syria, with air strikes in Idlib province and a move to break a siege near Damascus Monday. Syrian and Russian aircraft pounded targets in the northwestern region of Idlib, pressing a week-old operation targeting the...

A total of 71 people have been killed in a week of violence in Nigeria's Benue state, a government spokesman said Monday, much of it involving clashes between Muslim cattle herders and Christian farmers. The killings endanger efforts by President Muhammadu Buhari to bring security and...

Iran's foreign minister on Monday warned neighboring countries over fomenting insecurity in Iran in a reference to anti-government protests that have roiled the country over the past two weeks. The remarks by Mohammad Javad Zarif at a security conference in Tehran echoed the Iranian...

Air strikes by regime and Russian aircraft on rebel positions in the northwestern province of Idlib killed at least 21 civilians, including eight children, an activist group said Monday. The strikes carried out on Sunday were the latest against extremists and rebels in a week-old regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham movement declared general mobilisation in northern Syria, calling for uniting ranks as regime forces make rapid gains in Idlib and Hama provinces. The statement by once Syria's powerful Islamist group has renewed accusation for for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,...

A Syrian activist group and paramedics in the northwestern city of Idlib say the death toll from a massive car bombing there the previous evening has risen to at least 25. Also, nearly 100 people were wounded. The first-responders Syrian Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets says...

More than 200 migrants were rescued when a boat carrying undocumented African migrants sank off Libya’s western coast Sunday evening, but at least two also died, according to a spokesman for the Libyan Navy. Ayoub Qassim told Anadolu Agency that the boat sank off the coast of Garabulli,...

A large car bombing in Syria's largest rebel-held city of Idlib killed at least 23 people on Sunday evening, activists reported. The blast ignited fires, damaged buildings and overturned several cars along a wide avenue in the city, according to photos and video posted by the...

Former Egyptian premier Ahmed Shafiq Sunday announced he will not stand in the 2018 presidential elections, reversing a pledge to challenge at polls likely to be dominated by leader Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. "I have decided to not run in the upcoming 2018 presidential elections," Shafiq...

A Saudi coalition jet was reportedly shot down by Houthi fighters over Yemen's northern Saada province on Sunday, with two crew lost in the war-torn country. A UK-made Tornado jet, which is used by Saudi Arabia's air force was downed by the Houthi rebels, according to an official...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the opposition's Astana delegation, expected that the next round of consultations will achieve progress on the issue of detainees hinting at the Russian seriousness about this issue.  In an interview with Zaman al-Wasl, Dr. Ahmed Tu'mah said that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian military pilot is believed to be alive after three years of being mourned by the pro-regime media outlets, a document by opposition reconciliation committee revealed. Name of Major Pilot Abdulaziz Eid Yousef has been resurfaced again when an opposition...

At least two people were injured in an explosion at a metro station in a southern district of the Swedish capital Stockholm on Sunday. Fire department spokesman Lars-Ake Stevelind said the blast occurred at 11.07. am local time (1007GMT) at the Varby Gard metro station. He added...

Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools, a senior education official said, after the country’s Supreme Leader said early learning of the language opened the way to a Western “cultural invasion”. “Teaching English in government and non-government primary schools...