(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hamouda, 5-year-old child boy, is not aware that the United Nations has a law called the Child Protection Act which concerns him and his rights as a child. Hamouda, who has haemophilia, lives his childhood different to other children elsewhere. He is one among many of...

United Nations officials have found that missiles fired at Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Houthi rebels appear to have a “common origin,” but they are still investigating U.S. and Saudi claims that Iran supplied them, according to a confidential report. The officials traveled to Saudi Arabia...

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on Saturday that Arab nations should consider imposing economic sanctions against the United States to prevent it moving its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. “Pre-emptive measures (must be) taken against the decision ... beginning with...

(Zaman Al Wasl) After years of operating freely, the local council in Azaz city in Aleppo’s northern countryside issued a decision to close all the shops and offices that produce forged documents such as identity cards, passports and educational certificates giving the shop and office owners a...

An infant in opposition-held Eastern Ghouta -- a suburb of Damascus -- died on Friday due to lack of health care. Walid Awwata, doctor of the baby, said that the 45-day-old Mohanned was diagnosed with bilateral hydronephrosis. Bilateral hydronephrosis is a condition that...

Daesh (ISIS) has seized territory in Syria's Idlib province after clashes with rival extremists, nearly four years after being expelled from the region, a monitor said on Saturday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Daesh had captured the village of Bashkun after...

 Iraqi forces said they killed 10 members of Daesh (ISIS) in a tunnel near the city of Kirkuk on Saturday, the same day that the prime minister declared the war on Daesh over. "Brigade 16 of the Hashed al-Shaabi found a tunnel on the outskirts of Rashad and killed 10 [Daesh]...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS blast bomb killed at least 15 Kurdish fighters in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, the extremist group's news agency said. Amaq said ISIS fighters have attacked a PYD bastion in the village of Deranj near al-Omar gas field.    The...

More than 465,000 civilians have been killed in Syria’s six-year civil war, a refugee rights group said Saturday. Abdullah Resul Demir, deputy chairman of the International Refugee Rights Organization, said the fatalities had been caused during fighting or in prison. “The...

The Arab League is preparing a roadmap in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, according to a league spokesman.   Arab foreign ministers are set to hold an emergency meeting in Cairo on Saturday to discuss repercussions of...

A dozen Palestinians were injured in fresh protests in the West Bank on Saturday amid tension over U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The ministry said in a statement two protesters were...

Iraq on Saturday announced the end of UN sanctions imposed on the country following its invasion of neighboring Kuwait in 1990. In a statement, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry attributed the abolishment of the UN sanctions after 27 years in place to “diplomatic successes”. This...

A senior official has confirmed that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in the West Bank this month because of U.S. recognition of contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital. President Donald Trump's recent decision breaks with...

Global aid groups on Saturday warned Myanmar they would boycott any new camps for Rohingya returnees to Rakhine state, saying refugees must be allowed to settle in their original homes. The joint statement, signed by more than a dozen humanitarian organizations including Save the...

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced Saturday "the end of the war" in Iraq against the Daesh (ISIS) and that his forces had regained full control of the border with Syria. "Our forces are in complete control of the Iraqi-Syrian border and I, therefore, announce the end of the war...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- It is regrettable that the Syrian people rose up and paid a heavy price for their revolution for others to reap the fruits of their sacrifices without effort. In return for a few limited gains, certain groups in Syria are expected to help the tyrannical regime remain in place....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior commander in the US-led Syrian Democratic Forces has defected and joined the Russian troops in Deir al-Zor province, Furat Post Network said on Friday. Yasser al-Dahla is the commander of Thi Qar brigade that based in the northern countryside of Deir al-Zor....

Suspected Ugandan rebels killed at least 15 Tanzanian U.N. peacekeepers and wounded 53 others in a raid on a base in Congo that U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday called the worst attack on the organization in recent history. Tanzania’s President John Magufuli said he was...

At least two people were killed in clashes with Israeli troops on Friday when thousands of Palestinians demonstrated against U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the Palestinian president said Washington could no longer be a peace broker. Across...

A high-level defector from Kurdish-led forces that captured the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State has recanted his account of the city’s fall, saying thousands of IS fighters - many more than first reported - left under a secret, U.S.-approved deal. Talal Silo, a former commander...