RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor issued an arrest warrant on Saturday for a Twitter user who called for anyone who supports women driving to be killed, days after a royal decree ended a long-time ban on women taking the wheel. The Twitter user, who was not named, was...

(Reuters) - Dozens of people were arrested on Saturday as neo-Nazis and anti-fascists clashed with police during a march by the extreme right-wing Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) in Gothenburg, Sweden on Saturday, police said. The NMR gathered hundreds of people for the march....

(Reuters) - Spanish police monitored schools earmarked as polling stations and occupied the Catalan government’s communications hub on Saturday in an effort to prevent a banned independence referendum which has divided Spain. Hundreds of supporters of the referendum spent the night in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine people killed and 40 more wounded in airstrikes on the town of Albukamal at the Iraqi border as regime forces backed by Russia aerial cover press to deter an ISIS assault in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists said on Saturday. Activist Ibrahim Khalil told...

 The European Commission has shied away from ranking which cities should host Europe’s drugs regulator and banking authority after Brexit, saying the decision is up to the 27 member states which will remain. The EU executive said its assessment, published on Saturday, was wholly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish Police have arrested a Syrian man in Bursa city connected to the murder of leading opposition activist and her journalist daughter in Istanbul ten days ago, Turkish daily reported on Saturday . Yeni Safak newspaper said Ahmed Barakat, cousin of the victims...

 Two months after signing it, President Donald Trump has not begun enforcing a law imposing new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea, Senators John McCain and Ben Cardin said in a letter seen by Reuters on Friday. Also, with just two days to go, his administration has not...

(Reuters) - The wealthiest Americans would benefit the most from President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts while many upper middle-income people would face higher taxes, independent experts said on Friday in the first detailed analysis of the plan. A U.S. Senate panel took Trump’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent Syrian gril has been selected by UNICEF as a candidate for the International Children's Peace Prize one of  Un’s awards to individuals who fight for children’s rights, raise awareness and spread hope throughout the world.  Najwa Fattouh, 16,...

(Eqtsad)- Rubble still covers the area, abandoned buildings with no doors or windows. This is how Aleppo's industrial zone of al-Lyramon looks like after regime recaptured it more than a year ago. Regime media makes it look otherwise. The news transmitted by regime media of...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian and Russian airstrikes on Friday have killed at least 41 civilians, including women and children, in northern Idlib province, topping the death toll of heavy bombing to 200, local monitoring groups and activists said. 28 people were killed and...

Some 700 French adults, one-third of them women, and about 500 children are in jihadi-held areas in Iraq and Syria, an official at the French president’s office said on Friday, raising potential legal challenges over how to handle them. The presidency official said that half of the 500...

At least 10 Hezbollah fighters were killed Friday in an attack by Daesh terrorists in Syria’s Homs district, according to websites linked to the group.  The pro-Hezbollah websites, which typically publish the names of Hezbollah casualties in Syria, posted photos of the 10 slain...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS new agency posted footage on social media shows dozens of slain regime troops said they have been killed in eastern Deir Ezzor province. Amaq said ISIS fighters had killed more than 48 regime forces, including top officers, near al-Shoula town west of Deir Ezzor in...

 The Syrian army and its allies have secured the Palmyra to Deir al-Zor road, a major supply route from government territory to the eastern city, defeating a strong Islamic State attack, a military media unit run by Lebanon’s Hezbollah said on Friday. Islamic State’s assault, which...

A decade on, Rawda al-Zaanoun is at last willing to forgive the gunmen who killed her son during the civil war that split Palestine. It has been painful, but she says it is time. ”He was hit with a bullet in the back. He was a martyr,“ the 54-year-old said at an event in Gaza city to...

(Reuters) - A ban on international flights into Iraq’s Kurdish region was being imposed on Friday after the Baghdad government retaliated against a vote for independence that has drawn opposition from foreign powers. Iraq’s Kurds overwhelmingly backed independence in a referendum on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 civilians, including 4 children, have been killed in  Eastern Ghouta as Syrian regime forces step up its heavy bombing on the embattled suburbs of Damascus, activists said on Friday. Local reporter said the airstrikes have targeted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local council of Jisr al-Shughour said the town is a stricken as regime forces and key ally Russia have been waging deadly aerial campaign in the northern Idlib province since a week that left more than 150 people killed. the council called on humanitarian groups and...

Volkswagen will take a hit of around 2.5 billion euros ($3 billion) to its third-quarter results because a program to buy back or retrofit diesel engine cars in North America is proving more complex and time-consuming than expected, it said on Friday. Its shares dropped after the...