Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s (005930.KS) shares fell more than 4 percent to a one-month low on Monday after Morgan Stanley cut its recommendation on the South Korean tech giant, citing concerns that a boom in memory chips is likely to peak soon. A so-called memory chip “super-cycle” of...

Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Monday it had been informed by Google that the search engine does not change its algorithm to re-rank individual websites. Google was responding to a request from Roskomnadzor regarding Russian media outlets RT and Sputnik,...

 Bitcoin’s vertiginous ascent showed no signs of stopping on Monday, with the cryptocurrency soaring to another record high just a few percent away from $10,000 after gaining more than a fifth in value over the past three days alone. The digital currency has seen an eye-watering...

Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Sunday an attack on an Egyptian mosque that killed more than 300 worshippers would galvanize an Islamic military coalition that aimed to counter “terrorism and extremism”. Top defense officials from 40 Muslim-majority...

Israeli police on Sunday arrested 36 Haredi (ultra-orthodox) Jews in Jerusalem protesting the conscription of religious school students into the Israeli army, Israel media reported on Sunday. “The ultra-Orthodox demonstrators were arrested for blocking traffic in Jerusalem,” Israeli...

More than 24,700 women have been killed in Syria since the outbreak of the country’s civil war in 2011, according to a London-based NGO. In a new report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said a total of 24,746 women have lost their lives in Syria since March 2011. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- 1400 regime troops have been killed and wounded in a month of clashes with Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib, Aleppo and Hama provinces, the group's news site said on Sunday. Iba'a news agency said in a death toll infographic that 400 regime troops and allied...

A ship, carrying 5,500 tons of flour, docked in Hodeidah port Sunday, the first after more than two weeks of a blockade from a Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi movement in Yemen, local officials said. Saudi Arabia and its allies closed air, land and sea access to the Arabian...

 Six Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers hit Daesh (ISIS) targets in Syria's Deir al-Zor province Sunday, Russian news agencies cited Russia's Defense Ministry as saying. The bombers that flew from an airfield in Russia hit "terrorist strongholds" in the valley of the Euphrates...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four civilians were killed when the U.S.-led coalition warplanes hit last ISIS pockets in eastern Deir Ezzor province in support of Kurdish-led forces, local media unit said on Sunday. The suspected Egyptian jets struck the towns of al-Sha’fa and Dernej in the eastern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- "God, Syria and Bashar, only." This is how the arm of extremism extended to embrace thug culture and unite with it. The phrase was written on the walls of a hall dedicated to collecting donations for war torn people in Syria in western France. Syria Charity organized...

Islamist party activists on Sunday clashed with Pakistani security forces for a second day outside the capital, Islamabad, burning vehicles before withdrawing to a protest camp they have occupied for more than two weeks, police said. Despite order from the civilian government to the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 23 civilians killed in deadly airstrikes hit the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Capital, local activists said on Sunday. Sunday's aerial and ground shelling killed 13  people in Misraba, and 10 more in Madyara and neighbouring suburbs....

A powerful blast on Sunday morning in a Chinese city south of Shanghai brought down buildings and killed at least two people while injuring many others, state media reported, with police saying the cause had still to be determined. The explosion struck at around 9 a.m. (0100 GMT) at a...

 State oil giant Saudi Aramco and Saudi Basic Industries Corp are about to sign a memorandum of understanding to build a complex converting crude oil to chemicals in the kingdom, sources told Reuters on Sunday. The two companies had agreed in June 2016 to conduct a feasibility...

The deputy head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned Europe that if it threatens Tehran, the Guards will increase the range of missiles to above 2,000 kilometers, the Fars news agency reported on Saturday. France has called for an “uncompromising” dialogue with Iran about its ballistic...

The next stage of elections will be held in Kurdish-held areas in northern Syria on December 1.  Over 30 parties and entities will participate in the elections of representatives for local councils, Ibrahim Ibrahim, a spokesperson for the PYD, the dominant party in the Kurdish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took an oil-rich ground from ISIS along the Iraqi border near the town of Albu Kamal, the Kurdish-led alliance said on Sunday. The YPG-led forces are now 9 km (6 miles) far from Albu Kamal, such a progress may spark a battle with the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As Rawa'a, a 4-year-old Syrian refugee girl, plays in front of the door of her rented house near the Lebanese capital of Beirut, she is waiting for help that might save her right eye, which doctors decided to eradicate. Rawa'a  began to complain of pain in the eye...

The trilateral meeting between Iran, Russia and Turkey in the Russian resort of Sochi this week was “a right step, at the right time” for stability in Syria, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad. Russia’s Vladimir Putin won the backing of Turkey and...