The commander of Libya's self-styled national army in the east has ordered naval bases to confront any vessel entering the country's territorial waters without military permission. A statement released by the forces of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar Wednesday says the command was...

Russia's Defence Ministry and Syria's opposition have agreed to create a new "de-escalation" zone north of the city of Homs, the ministry spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, was shown saying on Russia's state Rossiya 24 TV channel on Thursday. A ceasefire in this area is set to take affect at...

A military appeals court in Jordan has upheld the life sentence of a Jordanian soldier in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers last year. First Sgt. Marik al-Tuwayha, was sentenced by a military court last month to life in prison with hard labor for killing the Americans at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's airstrikes killed at least 14 civilians, mostly family members, in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local monitoring group saidon Thursday. The strikes of Bashar Assad’s key ally struck a school sheltering displaced people in al-Tabanni village in the western...

(Zambian Al Wasl)- Razan Khaebbiya, aSyrian engineer,  has devoted herself to help the children of the Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital, especially those with special needs who got injured in the war.  A year ago, Khaebbiya set up a project called the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- We are not the only ones who have visited the prisons of ISIS in Manbaj, but this time we have found testimonies of a new kind that document the organization's hideous methods of torture. On the way to ISIS famous prisons, one of the fighters in the Manbaj Military...

 Iran's supreme leader formally endorsed Hassan Rouhani as president in a ceremony broadcast on state television on Thursday, after Rouhani secured a second term in a landslide election win on May 19. Addressing religious, military and political leaders, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...

Washington is seeking talks on how North Korea can be suspended from Asia's biggest security forum as part of a broader effort to isolate Pyongyang diplomatically and force it to end its missile tests and abandon its nuclear weapons program, U.S. and Philippine officials said. Acting...

Turkey has vowed to root out militants plotting against China as the two countries pledged to collaborate on a security issue that had been a source of friction. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday in Beijing that Turkey would treat matters of China's security as its own,...

The United States warned a takeover of rebel-held northwestern Idlib province by Syrian militants linked to a former al-Qaeda affiliate would have grave consequences and make it difficult to dissuade Russia from renewing bombing that recently stopped. In an online letter posted late on...

The U.S. military in Afghanistan says that four American troops were wounded in the same suicide bombing near the city of Kandahar the previous day that killed two U.S. service members. The statement released in Kabul on Thursday says their injuries are not life threatening. It followed...

A Palestinian-Syrian software pioneer has been executed in prison after being arrested five years ago by Syrian authorities in Damascus, his widow and colleagues said Wednesday, in what Amnesty International said was a “grim reminder of Syrian prison horrors.”  Noura Ghazi Safadi wrote...

The Russian Foreign Ministry says Moscow is reserving the right to take further retaliatory measures in response to a sanctions bill signed by U.S. President Donald Trump. The statement contrasts with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's earlier statement that "retaliatory measures already have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State militants attacked regime forces and their allies in the countryside east of Homs and Hama on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Heavy fighting raged around the mountainous Jabal al-Shomariya area in Homs province, and the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Former al-Qaeda group has executed a Syrian refugee famed for burglary and excessive abuses against refugees in the Lebanese town of Arsal, local reporter said Wednesday. Before leaving the mountainous border region to Idlib province over an evacuation deal with...

Turkish authorities have arrested a freelance French journalist on charges of links to a Kurdish militia Ankara regards as a terror group, the latest foreign reporter to run into trouble in the country, judicial sources said on Wednesday. Loup Bureau, who has worked in the past with French...

The EU said Wednesday it was ready if needed to retaliate within days against new U.S. sanctions on Russia, but believes Washington wants to spare European energy firms from any fallout. U.S. President Donald Trump reluctantly signed off on the new sanctions against Russia Wednesday, bowing...

Italian authorities on Wednesday impounded a German NGO's migrant rescue boat on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration, police said. The Iuventa, operated by the Jugend Rettet organisation, was impounded on the Italian island of Lampedusa on the orders of a prosecutor based in...

Germany Wednesday accused Hanoi of kidnapping an asylum seeker on German soil, as Berlin furiously summoned Vietnam's ambassador and expelled one of the south-east Asian nation's spies. "The kidnapping of Vietnamese national Trinh Xuan Thanh on German soil is an unprecedented and scandalous...

Daesh (ISIS) Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack a day earlier against a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan that left dozens dead. "Around 50 Shiites killed and 80 wounded in an attack by [Daesh] fighters yesterday on a mosque in western Afghanistan's Herat," the group's...