South Africa has granted Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe diplomatic immunity after a 20-year-old model accused her of assault in an upmarket Johannesburg hotel room. "I hereby recognise the immunities and privileges of the First Lady of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Dr Grace Mugabe," said...

Berlin police say 39 people were detained Saturday in connection with a far-right march commemorating the 30th anniversary of the death of high-ranking Nazi official Rudolf Hess. More than 500 neo-Nazis had attempted to march to the site of the former prison in Berlin's western district of...

Police said Sunday they have found more than 120 gas canisters in a house in Alcanar, where suspects of this week's twin assaults in Spain were believed to be building bombs for "one or more" attacks in Barcelona. "We're starting to see clearly that [the Alcanar house] was the place where...

Italy on Sunday boosted terror prevention measures surrounding the country's architectural and artistic treasures and major pedestrian areas in response to the attacks in Spain, Finland and Russia. Italy has not suffered any extremist attacks on its territory but has been repeatedly warned...

Rocket fire injured several people Sunday near the entrance to the Damascus International Fair, a key business gathering being held for the first time in five years, Syrian media said. State television, citing its reporters on the scene, said the rocket hit near the entrance of the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that while his country had foiled Western designs to topple him, his army had not won defeated insurgents and the fight was continuing. In an televised address, Assad said that even though there were signs of victory after six-and-a-half years...

The Iranian parliament voted on Sunday to keep the oil and foreign ministers, two of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani's key members of cabinet, in their posts. Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh has been credited with the boost in Iran's crude output since many global sanctions were lifted last...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two years ago, a lorry found on an Austrian motorway with the decomposing bodies of 71 people, including 15 Syrian migrants and a baby girl, inside. In their memory, Zaman al-Wasl is publishing their names, date of birth and nationality. Austrian police said of...

Three Lebanese soldiers were killed and one was critically wounded on Sunday when their armored vehicle hit a landmine on the Lebanese-Syrian border, a security source said. The area where the soldiers were killed was near a border stronghold close to the mountains of Arsal, where...

The Catalonia police on Sunday said investigators were still working on the hypothesis of 12 suspects in the Barcelona attacks that took place on Thursday and that one man was still sought. Speaking to local radio, spokesman Albert Oliva said this man was Moroccan-born 22-year-old Younes...

 Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday the top foreign policy priority for his new government was to protect the nuclear deal from being torn up by the United States. "The most important job of our foreign minister is first to stand behind the JCPOA, and not to allow the U.S. and...

New Zealand’s 37-year-old opposition leader, Jacinda Ardern, officially launched her election campaign on Sunday, pledging her government would be “bold”, “brave” and tackle rising inequality should it win next month’s election. Ardern is riding a surge in the polls just three weeks after...

(Eqtsad)- There are many currency exchange companies in neighboring countries and western countries which transfer money to Syria. The transfer is carried out through individuals and irregular companies that smuggle money from Syria abroad, and are placed in fake accounts or handed over to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 worshipers were killed on Saturday when U.S.-led coalition airstrikes struck a mosque at the Syrian-Iraqi border, local activists said.   The U.S. strikes hit the ISIS-held village of al-Jazza’ In the southern countryside of Hasaka city, two days...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A commander in US-led Syrian Democratic Forces has offended displaced women to force her family to leave their house in the town of al-Shadadi, south of Hasaka city. Local activists confirmed that Ahmed Jaffal Abu Hamza, an element in Deir al-Zour military...

 (Zaman Al Wasl TV)- We do not stand here in clashes zone nor in the headquarters of al-Nusra Front or Islamic State. We are here in the Khan al-Asal area in a camp for the displaced. According to the statistics of the Aleppo Governorate Council, about 200,000 people...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called on Sunday for developers to incorporate safety features into their projects to prevent militant attacks with vehicles and other weapons as he announced new plans to protect the public. Turnbull unveiled Australia's first national strategy to...

India began investigating on Sunday a train crash in which 23 people were killed, the fourth major accident over the past year on the world's fourth biggest rail network which is grappling with chronic under-investment and over-crowding. The cause of the derailment about 130 km (80 miles)...

Iraqi security forces launched on Sunday an offensive to take back the city of Tal Afar, their next objective in the U.S.-backed campaign to defeat Islamic State militants, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said. "You either surrender, or die," Abadi said in a televised speech announcing...

Donald and Melania Trump will skip one of America's top art awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, the White House announced Saturday in the latest sign of the president's growing isolation after one of the most disastrous weeks of his young administration. The decision -- which came after...