Israeli prosecutors on Monday asked to extend Fawzi al-Juneidi's detention, according to a lawyer for the jailed Palestinian teenager. Al-Juneidi, 16, was arrested in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil) last week after being dragged on the ground and blindfolded by a dozen...

Iran’s defense minister has demanded that samples of a missile -- which U.S. officials say was supplied by Iran to Yemen’s Houthi rebels -- be handed over to Tehran for examination, Iran’s private Tasnim news agency reported Monday. “Our enemies can make these assertions,” Defense...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 regime troops killed by Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local media unit said on Monday. Furat (Euphrates) Post news site said five of the slain soldiers were killed in landmine explosion inside the displaced houses. Activists said regime army...

The United States was further isolated on Monday over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital when it blocked a United Nations Security Council call for the declaration to be withdrawn. The remaining 14 council members voted in favor of the...

The civilians who were evacuated from Aleppo, and took shelter in the camps built in Idlib, which is near the Turkish-Syria borders, continue their lives hoping to return back to Aleppo. The residents of Nour camp, which is backed by local aid organizations, told an Anadolu Agency...

Russia will be the only country to take part in rebuilding Syrian energy facilities, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday, after holding talks in Syria with President Bashar Assad, the RIA news agency reported. Rogozin was speaking a week after President Vladimir...

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday described U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria as "traitors", his office said in an online statement. Assad said he also welcomed a United Nations role in Syrian elections as long as it was linked with Syria's sovereignty, it cited him as saying...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed the Middle East and Iran's nuclear deal in a phone conversation, Russian foreign ministry said Monday.

Militants shot dead the chief of the Misurata Municipal Council in northwestern Libya on Monday, according to the official Libyan News Agency. Mohammed Ishtwei was abducted by militants shortly after leaving the city’s airport earlier in the day and was later found dead, the agency...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US army forces raided Syrian village on the Iraqi border and kidnapped a man and an Iraqi refugee woman late on Monday, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The raid took place in the village of Beer al-Helu, an area was cleared from Daesh near al-Yaarubiya border crossing in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's goods will enter opposition-held areas through Bab al-Hawa border crossing due to the need of Syrian merchants, the customs administration said in statement. Local activists condemned such a statement, saying the Russian goods must be boycotted not to be be...

Turkey on Monday marked International Migrants' Day with a renewed pledge to uphold the rights of all migrants and refugees. "Our world has been on the move throughout history. And today is no different as millions of people seek new homes away from their birth places," Foreign Minister...

British diplomat Rebecca Dykes was found dead in the outskirts of the capital Beirut, Lebanese police said Sunday. Her body was found near a motorway in northeastern Metn district on Saturday evening, police said in a statement. An autopsy confirmed the body belonged to the...

The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Monday on a draft resolution that would insist decisions on the status of Jerusalem have no legal effect and must be rescinded, diplomats said on Sunday, after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized the city as Israel’s capital. The...

Turkey's president slammed a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish militant group Sunday and said he'll clear his country's border with Syria of "terrorists." President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a rally in the central province of Karaman his country would not allow "terror nests" near its border,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked his US counterpart Donald Trump on Sunday for the CIA's help in thwarting a plot to attack the city of Saint Petersburg, the Kremlin said. It was the second time in a week that the world's most powerful leaders have exchanged messages of praise....

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 women and 4 children, mostly family members,  were killed in Russian airstrikes targeted the southern countryside of Idlib province, local media unit said on Sunday. The deadly strikes on Khan Sheikhoun town came as regime forces...

Libya’s national army commander Khalifa Haftar announced on Sunday the end of the Libyan Political Agreement, which was signed in Skhirat in Morocco in 2015, and said he does not recognize any decisions issued by the political bodies linked to it. “The military institution will not...

Syrian regime forces have entered parts of the Idlib province in north-west Syria, one of four “de-escalation” zones which foreign powers including Turkey, Iran and Russia agreed to establish after years of civil war. This follows weeks of attacks launched from the province of Hama on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 53 regime troops mostly from coastal region have been killed in two weeks by the Islamic State and rebel groups in Syria, according to pro-media outlets. The death toll included 20 officers killed in Deir Ezzor, Hama and Eastern Ghouta suburbs. 32 of slain...