Syria signs Paris climate agreement, leaving US as lone outsider Syria has officially signed up to the Paris Agreement, the UN said Tuesday, leaving the United States as the only country rejecting the global climate-rescue pact. “The Syrian Arab Republic deposited its...

DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani said on Tuesday that Arab states that had imposed sanctions on his country in June over allegations of supporting terrorism were not interested in a solution to the crisis. Speaking to members of the Gulf Arab state’s Shoura...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday urged Australia to accept New Zealand’s offer to resettle 150 refugees from an abandoned Australian-run detention center in Papua New Guinea, as about 450 men remain barricaded inside without food or water. The asylum seekers have...

The European Central Bank will only ask banks to set aside extra capital for their bad loans via Pillar 2 demands if talks with the lenders on the matter fail, a senior ECB supervisor said on Tuesday. “Only if the results of this structured dialogue do not convince us will we consider...

French-Swiss cement maker Lafarge said Tuesday its offices were being searched for information on financial links to extremist groups in Syria, including Daesh (ISIS). "French investigators are in the process of investigating our offices," a Lafarge spokeswoman told AFP, confirming a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A special source revealed to Zaman al-Wasl exclusive and highly sensitive information about the secret Zouba Center which regime has chosen for decades to prepare and produce chemicals that were later used to suppress and exterminate the Syrian people. The source, who...

A series of Taliban attacks over six hours on more than a dozen Afghan checkpoints killed 22 police and wounded 15 in the southern province of Kandahar, police said on Tuesday. Authorities said government forces killed 45 insurgents and left 35 wounded and none of the police checkpoints...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS suicide attacks on Monday killed at least 20 regime troops and allied Shiite militants in Deir Ezzor province, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The first car bomb attack took place near Hamdan airbase in Albu Kamal town, killing 17 troops, activists Salama...

International investigators have said for the first time that they suspect President Bashar al-Assad and his brother are responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, according to a document seen by Reuters. A joint inquiry for the United Nations and global...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Zaman al-Wasl obtained an official document condemning the Syrian regime by revealing regime manipulation of handing over its entire chemical weapons stockpile a few days before the arrival of UN experts to begin the chemical disarmament in implementation of a...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson issued a second, fuller apology on Monday for remarks about an Iranian-British aid worker jailed in Iran that critics said might have prompted Iran to extend her prison sentence. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson...

Saudi Arabia will host what it called an "expanded" conference for the Syrian opposition this month, aiming to unify its position ahead of United Nations-backed peace talks, the state news agency SPA reported on Monday. Saudi Arabia backs a grouping of opposition figures called the High...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of ivilians, including children, killed and wounded in Russian airstrikes on a marketplace in Atareb town in northern Aleppo province despite a "de-escalation zone" in place there, a monitor and local activists said on Monday. The initial...

Israel's army said Monday it had arrested a senior Islamic Jihad fighter as tensions with the group rose after the army blew up one of its tunnels from Gaza. The army arrested overnight the "senior operative" in Arraba near Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, Israel's military...

At least 332 people were killed in Iran and Iraq when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake jolted the region Sunday, state media in the two countries said, and rescuers were searching for dozens trapped under rubble in the mountainous area. State television said more than 328 people were killed...

Daesh (ISIS) militants regained control of Albukamal, their last stronghold in Syria, after Iranian-backed militias who claimed to have captured the city a few days earlier were ambushed and forced to retreat, tribal leaders, residents and a war monitor said on Monday. Fighters from...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who has refused to accept Saad Hariri’s resignation as prime minister unless Hariri returns from Saudi Arabia, welcomed comments from Hariri that he plans to come home soon, palace sources and visitors said on Monday. Hariri, who threw Lebanon into...

MANILA (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he had made significant progress on trade issues during a fruitful trip across Asia that saw governments roll out red carpets “like nobody has ever seen”. “We’ve made some very big steps with respect to trade, far bigger than...

Oil traded near $57 a barrel as Saudi Arabia signaled it will raise security at its crude facilities after Bahrain blamed Iran for a fire at a pipeline that connects the two Arab allies. Iran denied it was involved. Futures were little changed in New York after falling 0.8 percent...

 (Reuters) - At least 168 people were killed in Iraq and Iran on Sunday when a powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit the region, state media in the two countries said, as rescuers searched for dozens trapped under rubble. At least 164 people were killed in Iran, Behnam Saeedi, a...