The family of slain former President Ali Abdullah Saleh has left Yemeni capital Sanaa to the southern city of Aden, according to a Yemeni military source. Children and women from Saleh’s family left the Houthi-held capital late Saturday to Aden, the current seat of the internationally...

A top Sudanese security source on Sunday denied reports that eight Saudi opposition clerics had been deported to the Horn of Africa nation. An Arabic media organ linked to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) -- the group behind last year's defeated coup in Turkey -- had reported...

At least eight people were killed and 44 injured, including women and children, when a church in southwestern Pakistan was stormed by heavily armed militants on Sunday, officials and local media reported. The blast took place at 12 noon (0700GMT) when some 400 people people were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- On a metal bed in a hospital in the embattled Eastern al-Ghouta suburbs, Yassin, 3-year-old child,  sits smiling innocently at everyone around him although he has spent all his years so far ill and visiting medical centers for treatment and checkups.  Yassin,...

Turkey's IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation has opened a kindergarten for orphans in Syria’s northern city of Azaz, it said on Saturday. The kindergarten will educate 90 children between the ages of 3 and 5 in Bab al-Salam refugee camp, the foundation said in a statement....

Two suicide attackers opened fire inside a church in southwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least five people and wounding up to 16 before being stopped by police guards, officials said. The gunmen wearing explosives-filled vests stormed the church in Quetta city when Sunday...

TUNIS (Zaman Al Wasl)- La 19ème édition des Journées théâtrales de Carthage a tiré sa révérence après la cérémonie de la clôture qui a eu lieu au théâtre municipal de Tunis, la soirée du 16 décembre. Le jury à travers son président Mr Abdelhalim Messaoudi a annoncé les lauréats de cette...

Canadian police are investigating the mysterious deaths of pharmaceuticals billionaire Barry Sherman, founder of Apotex Inc, and his wife Honey, whose bodies were found in their Toronto mansion on Friday. Authorities were conducting post-mortem examinations on Saturday and treating the...

he UN Security Council is considering a draft resolution that would affirm that any change to the status of Jerusalem has no legal effect and must be rescinded, in response to the US decision to recognize the city as Israel’s capital. Egypt circulated the draft text on Saturday and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters took ground from Iraqi Shiite militias on the Iraqi border after a surprise attack on Friday, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Muhannad Yousef the the ISIS suicide bombers attacked three checkpoint for al-Hashd al-Sha’bi near Tel Sufouk area...

Thirty-two Turkish nationals, reportedly opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, were rescued by a patrol boat in the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said Saturday. The group was spotted in an rubber dinghy off the Greek island of Oinousses, overnight Thursday to...

A new date next May has been set for Tunisia's first post-revolt municipal elections, already long delayed, polling officials said Saturday. The Independent High Authority for Elections said the polling date was set at May 6, rather than March 25 as previously announced, at a meeting...

A Libyan official says coast guards have rescued at least 270 migrants off Libya's eastern coast. Navy official el-Hadi Kheil said Saturday that the Arab and African migrants, who included women and children, were taken to a navy base in the capital, Tripoli. "We were lost and...

Sabih al-Masri, Jordan’s most influential businessman and the chairman of its largest lender Arab Bank, was detained in Saudi Arabia for questioning after a business trip to Riyadh, family sources and friends said on Saturday. Masri’s detention, which follows the biggest purge of the...

At least 10 civilians were killed and hundreds forced to flee their homes as Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents fought over turf in northern Sar-e-Pul province, officials said Saturday. Armed Taliban stormed the Sancharak district two days ago and security forces are still...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 regime troops from Tartus province were killed in two weeks by the Islamic State and Tahrir al-Sham jihadist groups, according to pro-regime news feeds. The death toll included 10 officers and 11 soldiers killed in Deir Ezzor, Hama and Eastern Ghouta...

Iraqi forces on Saturday uncovered two mass graves in northern Iraq, according to a local Iraqi official. “The two graves contain the remains of 90 victims, most of them were Ezidis,” Mohamed Khalil, the mayor of Sinjar city, told Anadolu Agency. Though the mayor did not say...

Since Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh lost his legs in an Israeli attack a decade ago, he and his wheelchair have been a regular feature at protests along Gaza's border with Israel. On Friday, he became one of four Palestinians to be killed in a day of protest against a US decision to move its...

"Youthquake" was crowned Friday as Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year 2017, following a five-fold increase in usage. The word is defined as "a significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people". It first rose during...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime air force has redeployed its L-39 attack jets in four military airfields of the war-torn country after Russia's announcement of partial withdrawal last week, sources said. 20 L-39 aircrafts were deployed in the military airports of Deir...