Physicist Stephen Hawking found himself in a war of words with Britain's Conservative government after he said it had caused a crisis in the state-run National Health Service (NHS) and was leading it towards a profit-making U.S.-style system. Writing in the Guardian newspaper on Saturday,...

Liverpool ground out their first Premier League victory of the season after winger Sadio Mane scored an opportunistic goal to give them a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace at Anfield on Saturday. The pacy Mane took advantage of a double mistake by Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic and steered the...

(Eqtsad)- From the time he learned he was going to be taken to the reserve army service in regime army, Imad, who is over thirty in stays inside a rented house in Jidaydat Artuz. Imad is not leaving his house at all for fear of detention and being taken to reserve army service. He also...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed and dozen more wounded in regime airstrikes on Hola region in central Homs province, local reporter said on Saturday.   The regime warplanes conducted 4 raids in new violation to the de-escalation agreement in the rebel-held northern countryside....

In the Spanish border town of Ripoll, everyone knows each other -- making it all the more shocking to residents that extremists believed responsible for this week's deadly twin attacks lived among them. "You are neighbours your entire life and they end up doing this," said Maria, a waitress...

A Palestinian teenager who tried to attack an Israeli border guard in the occupied West Bank with a knife on Saturday was shot dead, an Israeli police spokeswoman said. She said the 17-year-old attacker, whose identity was not disclosed, approached a group of border guards and pulled a knife...

Syriac Orthodox Christians in Syria's northeastern city of Hassakeh celebrated the inauguration of the community's new bishop on Saturday, four years after the last one left the country. Six years of conflict have ravaged Syria and displaced more than half of its population, including...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for an attack by a knifeman in Russia's far north who wounded seven people on Saturday before he was shot dead, its propaganda agency said. "The executor of the stabbing operation in the city of Surgut in Russia is a soldier of the Islamic State," Amaq...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An ISIS affiliated group launched surprise attack on moderate rebels in Southern Daraa province in retaliation to death of its commander in US-led coalition airstrike, rebel spokesman said on Saturday.   Jaysh Khaled Ibn al-Walid, which pledged allegiance to the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Iraqi refugee was killed and another injured on Friday in brawl with two Syrian refugees in in the German city of Wuppertal, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The activists quoted witnesses in Wuppertal and the German police website as saying that...

A group of 12 regional nations plus the United States rejected Venezuela's new government-allied legislative superbody, saying they would continue to regard the opposition-controlled congress as the country's only legitimate law maker. The move came after an announcement on Friday that the...

A car bomb on Saturday hit the Syrian port city of Latakia with reports of injuries, the Lebanese Hezbollah group's al Manar television station and a monitor said. The television station flashed that an explosive laden car caused the blast in the Tashreen district of the city that lies in...

Spanish authorities pressed their search Saturday for the supposed ringleader of an Islamic extremist cell that carried out vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort, as they looked into links among the Moroccan cell members. Early in the morning, police searched two buses in...

Some 500 far-right extremists are staging a march in Berlin in honor of the 30th anniversary of the death of top Nazi Rudolf Hess. About 500 counter-demonstrators gathered nearby the Saturday parade in the Spandau district, separated by hundreds of heavily armored police. Berlin police...

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane sent a message of support to those affected by terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that have left 14 people dead and over 100 injured. "On behalf of the club, of everyone, I want to say we had a minute's silence and we are thinking of all the...

Royal Dutch Shell has lifted a cargo of 600,000 barrels of crude oil from Libya's Zueitina port, its first from the war-torn north African country in 5 years, two industry sources told Reuters on Saturday. "Libya is a significant resource holder and Shell International Trading and Shipping...

Finnish police said they has arrested four other Moroccan men over their possible links to the man suspected of killing two and wounding eight in Friday's knife attacks. The police added in a news conference that the attacker, who had arrived in Finland last year, seemed to have chosen...

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis travels to the Middle East and eastern Europe next week to play the increasingly familiar role of reassuring allies that the United States is committed to them despite mixed messages from President Donald Trump. Mattis will visit Jordan, Turkey, and Ukraine...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four suffocation cases have been reported in Eastern Ghouta suburbs due to a regime toxic gas attack on the besieged Jobar neighborhood near the capital in spite of two-week-old ceasefire deal, medics said on Saturday. The Medical Center of Jobar said regime forces have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least ten people wounded in rocket attack launched by US-led Kurdish forces on al-Bab town in northern Aleppo province, local activists said on Saturday.    The assault of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) late on Friday was the first since Turkey-backed Free...