The U. S. Embassy in Ankara on Friday announced it has fully resumed non-immigrant visa services after normalization of visa services. “The U.S. Mission Turkey has fully resumed non-immigrant visa services. Additional appointments are now available,” said a statement on its website....

A fire broke out early Friday in an upscale rooftop restaurant in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, leaving at least 15 dead and a dozen injured, officials said. The 1 a.m. fire quickly spread from the restaurant through a four-story building, said fire official...

Turkish police detained 29 suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants in the capital, Ankara, Friday, some of whom allegedly were preparing to carry out attacks during New Year's celebrations, the state-run news agency reported. Some 500 police officers took part in simultaneous raids to detain...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 300 Islamist fighters will leave the last Sunni-rebel held bastion near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights due to a new evacuation deal reached with the regime army near the capital, local activists and monitoring group said. A convoy of 'green' buses has...

Two sons of Saudi Arabia’s late King Abdullah have been released from detention at Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton hotel, days after nearly two dozen other detainees in the kingdom’s 2-month-old anti-corruption campaign were also freed. Saudi Arabia’s attorney general approved the release of...

An Israeli military court extended the custody of a Palestinian teenager and her mother on Thursday after a video showing her slap two soldiers went viral and sparked heated debate. Ahed Tamimi, 16, was ordered held until Monday along with her mother Nariman, 43, a military spokeswoman...

Former football star George Weah has won Liberia’s presidential run-off election and will succeed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month, the country’s first democratic transition in over 70 years. With 98.1 percent of the vote counted, Weah led with 61.5 percent to Vice President...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday dissolved parliament ahead of an election which is expected to produce a period of instability in the euro zone’s third largest economy. Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s cabinet began meeting to fix the date of the vote, which political...

German prosecutors said Thursday they had charged five employees of a British recruitment agency working with Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair over millions of euros in allegedly unpaid social security payments for its pilots. No Ryanair staff were among the accused but "investigations...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The participation of Kurdish National Council in the Syrian Dialogue Congress in Sochi still not confirmed as the key opposition unit needs further consultation with partners, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Thursday.  A delegation from the council will visit Turkey...

Militants killed two people including a policeman at a bank in Egypt's North Sinai region Thursday and wounded several others, security sources said Thursday. The militants fired a rocket and shot at police who were guarding the bank in the town of el-Arish, the sources said....

Russian authorities will investigate whether opposition leader Alexei Navalny is breaking the law with his campaign for boycotting next year's presidential election, the Kremlin said Thursday. President Vladimir Putin, whose approval ratings have topped 80 percent, is set to win a...

Twelve people were killed on Thursday by airstrikes and artillery fire in northetn  Idlib province, local civil defense sources said. According to the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defense agency, Russian and Syrian regime warplanes repeatedly struck residential areas of the...

Pakistani diplomats in Syrian capital Damascus have contacted an elderly couple in a besieged suburb after their plight was highlighted by Anadolu Agency. Muhammad Fazal Akram and Sughra Bibi Akram are among the 400,000 civilians caught in Eastern Ghouta by a Syrian regime blockade....

A Saudi-led military coalition on Thursday destroyed three “ballistic missile launch-pads” in Yemen’s northern Al-Jawf province, according to a statement issued by the Yemeni army. “Arab coalition warplanes have destroyed three launch-pads used to fire ballistic missiles in Al-Jawf’s...

A second batch of sick civilians, most of them children, left the besieged Eastern Ghouta, aid officials said on Thursday, but hundreds of critical patients remained trapped. Four evacuations took place on Tuesday and another group of 12 made it out late Wednesday, but a top...

National Defense Minister of Turkey Nurettin Canikli on Wednesday confirmed an earlier statement by the head of Russia's state defense corporation Rostec that the S-400 deal had been concluded. Canikli, during a joint news conference held in Tunisia by Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

Former US president Barack Obama is the most admired man in the United States and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton the most admired woman, according to a poll published Wednesday. Obama came out on top of the annual Gallup survey for the 10th year in a row while Clinton, who...

Islamic State fighters are trying to make their way to parts of Syria controlled by President Bashar al-Assad, where they are apparently able to operate freely. “We are seeing the movement of limited numbers of ISIS militants westwards,” said British Maj. Gen. Felix Gedney, deputy...

A suicide attack on an office of the Afghan Voice news agency and a neighboring cultural center in the capital Kabul killed dozens on Thursday, officials and witnesses said, with many of the victims students. Interior Ministry deputy spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said at least 40 people had...