DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s government is changing the way it procures goods and services to save money, make the process fairer and aid local suppliers, the Finance ministry said on Sunday. The ministry, responsible for allocating tens of billions of dollars each year to keep the...
Aid deliveries to thousands of Syrians stranded on their war-torn country's desert border with Jordan must pass through Syria, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Sunday. "They are Syrian citizens on Syrian territory. Syria must therefore assume this responsibility and not...
Israel reportedly considered bombing crematoria created by the Syrian regime to burn and conceal the bodies of murdered political prisoners, but decided against it so as not to irritate the Americans or the Russians and avoid escalation on the northern border, t he Israel Hayom daily said on...
At least 11 civilians including two children were killed on Sunday in air strikes on a market in northwestern Syria, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes on the market in Idlib province's Maaret al-Numan were probably carried out by regime forces....
A drone strike on Sunday killed five suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the Yemeni province of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, security officials said. One official said a US drone had probably carried out the strike, which targeted a car in the province's Saoud district. The...
Zaman Al Wasl reveals in a new documentary the inner circle of the Syrian regime's chemical facilities. A data-rich report highlights the Chemical programme since its birth by the Soviet Union and how the Israelis were following up the developing process through its spies. The...
(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Catalonia’s capital Barcelona on Sunday to express their opposition to any declaration of independence from Spain, showing how divided the region is on the issue. The protesters rallied in central Barcelona, waving Spanish...
A final assault on Daesh’s last line of defence in its former Syrian capital Raqqa should begin on Sunday night, a field commander for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed by a US-led coalition, said on Sunday. The assault on militants in the centre of Raqqa would focus on the...
Turkish forces exchanged fire Sunday with extremists from Al-Qaeda's former Syrian affiliate on the border of Idlib province, a monitor and eyewitnesses said, a day after Ankara announced an imminent operation there. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Saturday that...
Syria's army and its allies have encircled Daesh (ISIS) in the city of Mayadin, southeast of Deir al-Zor, in eastern Syria, a Syrian military source said on Sunday. Mayadin is one of the last strongholds of Daesh as it falls back upon the fertile area downstream of Deir al-Zor in the...
The mass retreat of the Islamic State group from its territories in Syria and Iraq has left Europe grappling with the risk of foreign fighters returning home. But in Belgium, authorities are also turning their attention to repatriating children stranded in the war zones. With an...
By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The major shift in the European political stance over Bashar al-Assad’s future and it role in the the transitional period is no longer a subject to analysis or speculation. On more than one occasion, the European Union (EU) has...
Zaman Al Wasl has obtained special footage and videos of the Islamic State showing the identity of the most wanted jihadists worldwide. Between ISIS propaganda and its counter propaganda it will take so long to known the full truth and to comprehend how the Islamic State manages...
SABRATHA, Libya (Reuters) - An armed alliance involved in a three-week battle over the Libyan smuggling hub of Sabratha said on Saturday it had taken over protection of the Mellitah oil and gas terminal after expelling a rival group. An organization called the Operations Room and its...
(Reuters) - Hurricane Nate had curtailed 92 percent of U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil output and up to 3 percent of refining capacity on Saturday as it sped toward energy facilities in the central U.S. Gulf Coast that largely were spared by Hurricane Harvey’s wrath nearly six weeks ago. The...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s aim in backing Syrian rebel fighters for a major military operation into Syria’s Idlib is to prevent clashes completely and facilitate the process for a political solution, Turkish foreign minister was quoted by the CNN Turk news channel as saying. Turkish...
President Donald Trump will announce new U.S. responses to Iran’s missile tests, support for “terrorism” and cyber operations as part of his new Iran strategy, the White House said on Friday. “The president isn’t looking at one piece of this. He’s looking at all of the bad...
The "final large fight" in Iraq against the Islamic State group will take place on the border with Syria, a general in a US-led coalition against the jihadists said Saturday. He spoke two days after Iraqi forces recaptured the northern town of Hawija, the centre of one of the militant...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Tahrir al-Sham alliance on Saturday vowed a bitter defeat for the Turkish-backed Syrian rebels hours after the President Tayyip Erdogan declared “a serious operation” to begin in Idlib as Free Syrian Army is preparing to enter the area with the backing of Turkish...
Police said they have arrested a man near London's Natural History Museum following reports of a collision Saturday, in which a number of pedestrians are believed to have been hurt. A spokesman for the museum said there had been a vehicle collision with pedestrians outside its entrance...
