U.S. President Donald Trump has told his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Washington will not give terror group PKK/PYD weapons anymore, said Turkish foreign minister. Remarks by Mevlut Cavusoglu came after Trump and Erdogan held a telephone conversation on Friday to...

Russia is working together with Saudi Arabia to unify the Syrian opposition, Russia’s RIA news agency quoted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as saying on Friday. Lavrov was speaking at a meeting with United Nations special envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, who is visiting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 13 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in Russian airstrikes on last ISIS-held villages in eastern Syria in the past 48 hours, local media unit said on Friday. Journalist Suhaib al-Jaber from Furat Post said 8 people, including two women,...

China hopes Syria can show “flexibility” in promoting peace talks, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday in a meeting with an adviser to Syria’s president, adding that China would help with its reconstruction. Syria’s six-year-old civil war has killed hundreds of thousands of...

 The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen has given the United Nations permission to resume flights of aid workers to the Houthi-controlled capital on Saturday, but not to dock ships loaded with wheat and medical supplies, a U.N. spokesman said. The coalition fighting the armed...

 Top Lebanese Druze politician Walid Jumblatt on Friday criticized the way Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri had been treated by “some Saudi circles”, the first time he has appeared to direct blame at Riyadh over Hariri’s resignation this month. Jumblatt also condemned Iranian...

The intelligence that President Donald Trump leaked to top Russian officials in an Oval Office meeting in May concerned a highly sensitive Israeli special forces mission, it has been revealed. The operation, which took place in February 2017, involved commandos infiltrating an area under the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clerics suspended Friday Prayers in Eastern Ghouta suburbs as regime forces backed by Russian jets intensify aerial bombing on the besieged district of Damascus, local activists said. Eastern Ghouta came under major aerial and ground campaign killed more than 90 people...

As Islamists continue to lose ground, the US administration reportedly fears that northern territories, where its troops have been training rebel forces, will fall to the Syrian regime. The United States plans to keep a military presence in Kurdish-dominated northern Syria after...

South Africa’s Supreme Court increased Oscar Pistorius’ murder sentence on Friday to 13 years and five months after the state argued that his original sentence of six years was “shockingly lenient”. Pistorius was imprisoned in July last year after being found guilty on appeal of...

The Irish government was on the verge of collapse on Thursday after the party whose votes Prime Minister Leo Varadkar depends on to pass legislation said it would move to remove the deputy prime minister in a breach of their cooperation agreement. The crisis comes weeks ahead of a...

Syrian opposition will form a 50-member delegation to participate in U.N.-sponsored talks in Geneva, the main Syrian opposition meeting in the Saudi capital Riyadh told a news conference late on Thursday. “There will be further meetings tomorrow to decide the members of the delegation...

The size of Russia's military force in Syria is likely to be significantly reduced and a drawdown could start before the end of the year, the chief of the Russian military general staff said on Thursday. Russia's military support of Syrian President Bashar Assad, notably through air...

Syria's main opposition stuck by its demand Thursday that President Bashar Assad play no role in an interim period under any U.N.-sponsored peace deal, despite speculation it could soften its stance because of Assad's battlefield strength. "The participants stressed that this [the...

RIYADH: Syria's fragmented opposition doubled down on attempts to unify their ranks on Thursday, the second day of a Saudi-sponsored meeting ahead of next week's U.N.-brokered peace talks. Around 140 opposition figures are gathered in Riyadh in a bid to form a unified delegation to meet...

Ailing Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika made a rare public appearance Thursday to encourage turn out in the country's local elections that have been marred by voter frustrations amid rising poverty. Bouteflika, 80, cast his vote at a school near the capital, Algiers. He has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and allied militias have taken control of al-Quriya town, one of last ISIS strongholds in eastern Syria, local sources said Thursday. Three women and a child girl were killed in the aerial bombing on the town east of al-Mayadeen city. ISIS fighters...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will in the coming days visit Turkey's sometimes uneasy NATO ally Greece, a top official said Thursday, the first visit by a Turkish head of state to its neighbor in 65 years. Erdogan had himself, as prime minister, visited Greece in 2004 and 2010 but the...

Saudi Arabia aims to start issuing tourist visas to foreigners next year, a senior Saudi official told CNN, as the government seeks to open up the conservative kingdom and find new sources of revenue to diversify its economy. At present, foreigners travelling to Saudi Arabia are largely...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Russian jets have have intensified bombing on Eastern Ghouta suburbs in a major campaign killed more than 90 people and deepened the suffering of 400,000 blockaded people, local activists said on Thursday. The bombardment left 11 people...