An official news agency controlled by Yemen's Houthi rebels says 12 civilians have been killed in two airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in a northern province. The SABA news agency reports that warplanes bombed a house in the town of al-Safra in Saada province Friday, killing nine...

Two senior Hamas members are making a rare visit to Iran, in an apparent good will mission - even as top leaders of Hamas court Egypt, which is allied with Tehran's regional rivals. The center of decision making in Hamas shifted earlier this year from the diaspora to the Gaza Strip, a...

A former chief of staff to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to provide testimony on behalf of the state in two graft cases in which the Israeli leader has been questioned as a suspect, court papers showed on Friday. The decision by Ari Harow to turn state's witness as part of a...

Transcripts of President Donald Trump's conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia in January offer new details on how the president parried with the leaders over the politics of the border wall and refugee policy - with random asides on such subjects as drug abuse in New Hampshire....

Iraqi troops have found a mass grave in the western city of Ramadi containing the bodies of 40 men believed to have been executed by Daesh (ISIS), officials said Friday. It is the latest of dozens of such grisly finds made by Iraqi forces since they drove the extremists out of the swathes of...

The new sanctions against Russia that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law on Wednesday are "more than problematic," German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said. Speaking in the northern German city of Wolfsburg on Friday, Gabriel criticised the United States for departing from its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 family members killed Thursday in the U.S.-led airstrikes on ISIS-held Raqqa neighborhoods as Kurdish-led forces press rapid gains inside the capital of the Islamic State, local monitoring group said Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said most of the U.S....

Syrians who left Lebanon after a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Nusra militants on Thursday started crossing into a rebel-held area of Syria where they will settle, Lebanese media reported. As part of the same agreement, captured Hezbollah fighters began to be released at the same...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Warring sides exchanged rocket and gunfire in the northern countryside of Homs city overnight, hours after a Russia-backed truce took effect, a war monitor said on Friday, while heavy rocket fire also marred a similar deal east of the capital Damascus. One man killed...

Syrian opposition activists and state media say an explosion has targeted an office of the Al-Qaeda affiliate in northern Syria, inflicting casualties. Syrian state TV did not provide further details in its report. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the explosion...

Egypt's state-run news agency says a policeman and a civilian have been killed in a drive-by shooting attack. MENA says two gunmen opened fire from a car in the town of Asna, just south of the ancient city of Luxor, the previous evening. Friday's report cited an Interior Ministry...

An Australian man sent his unsuspecting brother to Sydney airport to catch an Etihad Airways flight carrying a home-made bomb disguised as a meat mincer built at the direction of a senior Islamic State commander, police said on Friday. Detailing one of Australia's worst known militant plots,...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman Al-Wasl obtained exclusive information about the identity of the Syrians who were humiliated by the Turkish border guards and the circumstances of what happened to them. The information revealed a number of striking and interesting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 300 Iraqi and Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS-held areas have arrived to al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Hasaka province in the past two days, local activists said. The Iraqi displaced were allowed by the Kurdish PYD militia to cross Rajm Sleibi checkpoint after...

Hundreds of Haitians are streaming across the U.S. border into Canada, fearing deportation by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to aid workers and Quebec officials who have opened Montreal's Olympic Stadium to help process the influx. About 400 to 500 Haitian asylum seekers walked into...

Aleppo's Old City, shelled, burned and shot up during years of fighting in Syria's civil war, can be rebuilt, the local representative of the United Nations cultural body UNESCO said. "Our vision is to rebuild the Old City exactly as it was before the war, with the same stones where we can,"...

New U.S. sanctions will make it harder for Russia to build two gas export pipelines to Europe but the projects are unlikely to be stopped. U.S. President Donald Trump has reluctantly signed into law further sanctions on Russia but some of the measures are discretionary and most White House...

Neymar's plan to leave Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain on a record-smashing transfer has hit a snag. The Spanish league said Thursday that representatives of Neymar tried unsuccessfully to pay the 222 million euro ($262 million) buyout clause that would release the Brazil star from his...

The U.S. embassy in Turkey denied Turkish media reports that the United States had sent tanks and hundreds of truckloads of weapons into Syria to support the Kurdish YPG militia. In a statement posted on social media, the embassy said the U.S. has not provided tanks to any groups fighting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Thursday have seized full control of southern neighborhoods of Raqqa, tightening the noose of Islamic State fighters, local monitoring group said. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said the Kurdish-led alliance took Hisham Ibn...