The European Union on Thursday condemned Israeli measures against three Palestinian schools in the occupied West Bank days before classes restart following the summer holidays. On Monday, a kindergarten structure in a Bedouin Arab community in the eastern West Bank was confiscated, while...

( The New Arab )- In her right hand, Sakne holds the identity card belonging to her 16-year-old son, Mohammed. Her left hand tightens its grip on the wiry arm of her younger son, Abbas.  On her face is a look of exhaustion - combined with a fierce determination. "I will come here...

Neymar's acrimonious split from Barcelona escalated on Thursday as the Paris St Germain forward announced plans to sue the Liga club, two days after Barca revealed they were suing the Brazilian over breach of contract. Reports in the Spanish media said that Neymar had filed a lawsuit via...

Moscow believes that Washington's bet on using of force in U.S. President Donald Trump's new strategy for Afghanistan is "a dead end", Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference on Thursday. Trump has approved an extended American presence in Afghanistan, although neither...

An Israeli court Thursday charged a Islamic preacher with incitement to terrorism in connection with deadly unrest at a Jerusalem holy site last month, the justice ministry said. It said that 1948 Palestinian Raed Salah was charged in Haifa magistrates' court on a total of six counts, also...

( The Guardian )- Dozens of people are feared killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a small hotel north of the Yemeni capital, the latest mass casualty event in a war that is now in its third year. News agencies quoted local officials and aid groups as saying at least 35...

The Syrian army and its allies have surrounded Islamic State forces in a second large enclave in the center of the country, a military media unit run by Hezbollah said on Thursday. The Syrian military advanced south from southern areas of Raqqa province, joining up with their forces north of...

The United Nations called on Thursday for a humanitarian pause to allow an estimated 20,000 trapped civilians to escape the Syrian city of Raqqa, and urged the U.S.-led coalition to rein in air strikes that have caused casualties. "Boats on the Euphrates must not be attacked, people who come...

The head of Turkey's nationalist opposition said on Thursday a planned independence referendum by Kurds in northern Iraq should be viewed by Ankara as a reason for war "if necessary." Turkey, which is battling a three-decade Kurdish insurgency in its southeast, is concerned the referendum...

Police said Thursday they had identified the remains of the last suspected member of a cell which carried out terror attacks in northeastern Spain. "Youssef Aalla is the last corpse identified in the Alcanar explosion," Catalan regional police said, referring to an accidental blast at the...

Net migration to Britain in the year to March 2017 fell by 81,000 to 246,000 people, with more than half the drop due to an increase in the number of EU citizens leaving Britain and fewer arriving, official data showed on Thursday. Net migration of European Union citizens fell by 51,000 to...

The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,000, officials said Thursday, as rescue teams try to reach millions stranded by the region's worst monsoon disaster in recent years. Thousands of soldiers and emergency personnel have been deployed across India, Bangladesh...

A citizenship crisis will loom over the Australian government for at least another two months after a court said on Thursday it would not begin hearings into the parliamentary eligibility of seven lawmakers until mid-October. Australia's parliament has been rocked by the revelation that the...

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis descended on Sanaa in a show of support for ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose party is on Thursday marking 35 years since its founding. The rally comes amid reports that armed supporters of Saleh and the head of the country's Huthi rebels, who have been...

Even as tensions between the United States and Russia fester, there is one surprising place where their military-to-military contacts are quietly weathering the storm: Syria. It has been four months since U.S. President Donald Trump ordered cruise missile strikes against a Syrian airfield...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians killed and 10 more wounded on Thursday in renewed airstrikes by the Syrian warplanes on Hola region in central Homs province, medics told Zaman al-Wasl.   thursday's strikes hit Kafrlaha and Tel Thahab towns in the northERN countryside of Homs,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Teachers in Raqqa countryside have opened school doors to children after years during the past few weeks despite destruction of school buildings as they were at the top of the list of International Coalition targets to fight ISIS. According to Abdullah al-Khalil from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In a small garden inside Dar al-Arqam for the disabled in the city of Harem in the countryside Idlib, Tasnim, 5, is playing with her peers in the house to forget the sounds of explosions and shelling. Tasnim lost her hearing, was struck by a state of panic and her walk...

A 1,500-year-old mosaic floor with a Greek inscription has been uncovered during works to install communications cables in Jerusalem's Old City - a rare discovery of an ancient relic and an historic document in one. The inscription cites 6th-century Roman emperor Justinian as well as...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 displaced people fleeing ISIS areas killed on Wednesday in the U.S. airstrikes on northern Hasaka province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl.   The deadly aerial campaign in support for Kurdish-led forces fighting ISIS in northeastern Syria has...