Any move by the United States to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would fuel extremism and violence, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Saturday. He spoke a day after a senior U.S. administration official said U.S. President Donald Trump was likely to make...

Talal Silo tells details of US arming terror groups in region and how the terrorist PKK/PYD-dominated SDF was formed ANKARA A former spokesperson and defector from the Syrian SDF, a group dominated by the terrorist PKK/PYD, spoke to Anadolu Agency on Friday. Talal Silo, a former...

Hamas Saturday accused the Palestinian Authority of blocking a landmark unity deal and called for a lifting of its sanctions on the Gaza Strip. "We demand that the government of [prime minister] Rami Hamdallah assume its responsibilities in full and lift the unjust sanctions imposed on...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday called on Iraq to dismantle all militias, including the government-sanctioned, Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a rare public call to do so by a major Western leader. Macron’s call, which followed a meeting with Iraqi Kurdish...

When Italy organized a conference focused on the Middle East, the Gulf and North Africa, it promised to look beyond the turmoil roiling the region and instead promote a “positive agenda”. But many of the 45 heads of state, ministers and business leaders who attended the event over the...

Women wishing to join the opposition police in the areas liberated during Operation Euphrates Shield will be offered a second training course early December in the  city of al-Bab , Mahmoud Ahmed, a police officer at al-Bab police station, told Al-Monitor. The...

Former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafik, who last week announced his intention to run for the presidency in 2018, has been arrested at his home in the United Arab Emirates and is being deported to Egypt, a source close to his family told Reuters on Saturday. UAE officials made no...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 76 troops and militiamen from pro-regime Homs neighborhoods were killed in November, local reporter said on Saturday. Most of the troops had been killed by Daesh (ISIS) in Deir Ezzor and Hama provinces. More than 119,000 pro-regime forces have been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian human rights watchdog says 996 civilians were killed in November by the Syrian regime, Kurdish-led forces, ISIS, Russia and the US-led coalition. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said  November's death toll recorded a 20% increase in the toll of...

he rebel alliance controlling Yemen's capital appeared to be crumbling Saturday as a strongman opposed to the internationally recognized government reached out to the Saudi-led coalition fighting the insurgents. The rift within rebel ranks has raised fears of a new front in an already...

The Honduran government declared a state of emergency late Friday and imposed a 10-day curfew in an attempt to stop violent demonstrations across the country triggered by claims of presidential election fraud. Police said at least two officers and 12 civilians were injured, some by...

Iraqi paramilitary forces have uncovered two more mass graves containing the bodies of 140 civilians, including women and children, in an area home to the Yazidi religious minority, they said Saturday. In 2014, Daesh (ISIS) killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the opposition delegation in Geneva agreed with the U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura to abandon the transitional period discussion in the eighth round of Syria's peace talks in contrary to media statements....

United Nations Security Council ministers will meet on Dec. 15 to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and missiles programs and the body will also meet separately this month to discuss human rights abuses in the North Asian country, an annual meeting that its ally China has tried to prevent for the...

Human rights organizations are urging the Greek government and the European Union to immediately start the transfer of asylum seekers to better conditions on Greece’s mainland as winter approaches. Human Rights Watch on Friday said this will be the second winter that asylum seekers will...

The U.S. military is shifting its stance in Syria, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday, as the program to arm the Kurdish opposition comes to a close and is replaced by increased support to local police and security forces. Mattis said the Pentagon is “changing the composition of...

 Israeli missiles struck a military position near Damascus and Syria’s air defence system responded on Saturday, destroying two of them, Syrian state television said. ”The Israeli enemy launched...several surface-to-surface missiles towards a military position,“ it said, adding...

U.N. experts who traveled to Saudi Arabia to inspect fragments of a missile fired from Yemen last month have found a possible link to an Iranian manufacturer, according to a confidential document seen by AFP on Friday. Saudi Arabia and the United States have accused Iran of supplying...

A group of Syrian children and their mothers saw a Turkish play Friday in Istanbul as part of their orientation to life in Turkey. Around 150 Syrian refugees enjoyed the play organized as part of ongoing orientation projects by the Istanbul Greater Municipality. The Women and...

A former spokesperson and defector from the Syrian SDF, a group dominated by the terrorist PKK/PYD, spoke to Anadolu Agency on Friday. Talal Sillo, a former high-ranking commander and spokesperson of the U.S.-backed force who defected from the terrorist group last month, is currently in...