In an exchange of threats, U.S. President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang of “fire and fury like the world has never seen” and the North’s military claimed Wednesday it was examining plans for attacking Guam. The high-level tit-for-tat follows reports that North Korea has mastered a crucial...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition killed 4 children  in airstrikes hit last ISIS stronghold in northern Hasaka province, activists said Tuesday, a death toll followed a deadly bombing in Raqqa left 29 people, including 14 children. Activist Mohamed Kheder told Zaman al-Wasl that...

Japan Display Inc on Wednesday said it would reduce 50 billion yen ($455 million) in annual fixed costs through restructuring steps, including consolidating production sites and cutting jobs. Read More: Syrian activists: Damascus suburbs under heavy bombardment Crime rates hike in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Zaman al-Wasl has obtained exclusive footage for Shukee Begum, the famous British woman who had previously joined ISIS, and whose story was circulated in the media due to the circumstances surrounding the story. The footage shows the...

An Israeli teenager accused of a wave of bomb threats against dozens of Jewish community centers advertised his services on a now-shuttered online black market, offering to threaten any school for $30, according to U.S. authorities. Recently unsealed court documents suggest that Michael...

 Global oil producers said Tuesday they remained committed to cutting output and stemming the collapse in oil prices, OPEC said. A technical panel including members of the Saudi-led cartel and other oil producers made the statement after a two-day session in Abu Dhabi. OPEC states...

President Donald Trump blasted North Korea after a new report Tuesday said U.S. intelligence has assessed that Pyongyang has successfully produced a nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles. Washington's alarm over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's pursuit of a nuclear capability has...

The U.S-led coalition fighting Islamic State denied responsibility on Tuesday for an attack near the Syrian border, which killed dozens of members of an Iraqi Shi'ite militia and, that group said, several of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards. A spokesman for the Iran-backed Kataib Sayyid...

Airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State killed at least 29 civilians including 14 children in 24 hours in the jihadists' Syrian capital of Raqqa, a war monitor said late on Tuesday. The dead included a family of 14 who had fled to Raqqa from the desert city of Palmyra, the...

A Belgian bomb squad found no explosives after a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb in his car was stopped by police, Brussels prosecutors said on Tuesday. "It's a mentally unstable person," a spokeswoman for prosecutors said. "The military did not find any explosive in his vehicle."...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A committee formed by rebel factions and civil society in northern Homs has met with the Russian military on Tuesday as part of a cease-fire deal reached last week where both parties discussed the fate of forcibly disappeared and detainees as well the food and aid entry...

Four soldiers and six suspected Al-Qaeda attackers were killed and 10 soldiers wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber and gunmen tried to storm an army camp in southern Yemen, a local security official said. Al-Qaeda has exploited more than two years of civil war between President...

A Turkish media report says Turkey has begun construction of a wall along the country's frontier with Iran, mimicking the Turkish barrier along the Syrian border. The private Dogan news agency said the governor of Agri province, Suleyman Elban, inspected the construction of the security wall...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and allied militias have intensified their bombardment of the capital's rebel-held Eastern Ghouta suburbs, one day after rebels frustrated a regime attempt to advance, activists said. The bombing left 3 people killed , including a civilian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Judicial sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl revealed that Hama province has a crime rate of more than 100 murders and attempted murders a month due to spread of mercenary gangs weapons. The sources pointed to the grim situation in Salamiye in particular, where it...

Reporting by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian Republican Guard officer complained of hunger to the Russians at a time when the administration of military appointments provided expired canned food to the army, causing several cases of poisoning in the regime-controlled...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani presented his cabinet to parliament for a vote of confidence on Tuesday, keeping in place the chief architect of Tehran's nuclear accord with global powers. In his first term, Rouhani championed an agreement with the United States and five other powers in...

Hong Kong has closed more than a dozen beaches after a palm oil spill washed foul-smelling, Styrofoam-like clumps ashore, the latest major environmental disaster to blight the territory's waters. The Chinese-controlled city closed two more beaches in the south of Hong Kong island on Tuesday,...

Venezuelan security forces have wielded excessive force to suppress protests, killing dozens and have arbitrarily detained 5,000 people since April, including 1,000 still in custody, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday. In preliminary findings based on 135 interviews...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson landed in Bangkok on Tuesday with a plea to the kingdom to curb business ties with North Korea, as Washington rounds up allies for its bid to halt Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Tillerson is the highest level American diplomat to visit Thailand since a...