New U.S. sanctions aimed at curbing North Korean's weapons programs, including measures aimed at Chinese entities and financial institutions, can be expected "fairly soon," a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday. Asked when such sanctions could be expected and whether they could come within...

A Yazidi boy rescued from the battlefield in Mosul after three years in Islamic State captivity has asked to be reunited with his mother, who was granted asylum in Canada after escaping from the militants herself. Twelve year-old Imad Tammo was captured by Islamic State along with his family...

Venezuela's main business guild Fedecamaras demanded Tuesday that President Nicolas Maduro's government abort a controversial vote scheduled for Sunday to create a special congress capable of rewriting the country's constitution. Critics have called it a dictatorial move and U.S. President...

France asked for Europe's help Tuesday in fighting wild fires that have consumed swathes of forest in the southeast, one of which is raging near the popular resort of Saint-Tropez. Over 4,000 firefighters and troops backed by 19 water bombers have been mobilised to extinguish the flames. At...

The European Union has extended the mandate of its naval operation targeting migrant smuggling in the Mediterranean and tasked it with monitoring illegal oil trafficking from Libya. Operation Sophia, which has naval ships and aircraft monitoring the Mediterranean, aims to disrupt smuggling...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three trucks carrying food rations and medicine entered into embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Tuesday due to the Russian-brokered cessation of hostilities agreement which reached three days ago, local activists and Russian statement said. The Russian task command in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian refugees were killed and dozens arrested when the Lebanese army stormed Wadi al-Nakheel camps in the border town of Arsal on Tuesday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The Hezbollah-controlled army has been waging fierce campaign against Syrian refugees over the...

A senior Kurdish official says the U.S. role in the fight against Daesh (ISIS) militants in Syria's Raqqa must not end with the liberation of the city but continue as a guarantor of its future stability. Ilham Ahmed says the Kurdish-led effort to secure the city after liberation needs U.S....

Syria views a U.S. decision to halt CIA support to rebel groups fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad as a "start" toward ending the six-year conflict, a government minister told Reuters. "All these steps are the start to solving the Syrian crisis, and without that there is no...

Thousands of Jordanian mourners chanted "death to Israel" as they attended the funeral Tuesday of a teenager shot dead by an Israeli embassy security guard. Mohammed Jawawdeh, 17, was killed Sunday after he assaulted the guard with a screwdriver at the embassy compound, according to Israeli...

Any U.S. decision to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons would set back peace efforts and escalate tensions, the Kremlin said Tuesday. The Kremlin was referring to an interview given by U.S. special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, to Britain's broadcaster BBC, in which he said that Washington...

European Union authorities have increased pressure on Facebook, Twitter and Google to amend their user terms to bring them in line with EU law after proposals submitted by the tech giants were considered insufficient. The European Commission and consumer protection authorities in the bloc...

Rights group Amnesty International urged the EU on Tuesday to get bloc membership candidate Turkey back in line and "reset" relations with Ankara if it does not reverse its human rights crackdown. Amnesty head Salil Shetty made the appeal during a meeting with European Union diplomatic chief...

 Anger was growing in Pakistan Tuesday as the grief-stricken relatives of 26 people killed by a suicide bomber in Lahore a day earlier buried their loved ones and demanded the government publicly hang the masterminds of the attack. Families and residents in the bustling eastern city...

US President Donald Trump on Monday announced he had ended a program to support rebels fighting against Syrian President Bashar Assad because it was "massive, dangerous, and wasteful." The comments came days after General Tony Thomas, the head of US special operations confirmed that the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The International Revolutionary People’s Guerilla Forces (IRPGF), Western militia fighting ISIS in Raqqa, has formed a brigade of 'homosexual' fighters to fight against the Islamic State forces in Raqqa.  The militia that fights under the banner of the U.S.-backed...

President Donald Trump has assailed The Washington Post in connection with a story about the termination of U.S. efforts to aid rebels fighting to oust Syria's President Bashar Assad. In a post on his Twitter account Monday, Trump said, "The Amazon Washington Post fabricated the facts on my...

 Venezuela's angry opposition is pushing for a boycott of an upcoming vote that it dismisses as a ploy by President Nicolas Maduro to cling to power. Ahead of next Sunday's election for a 500-plus member assembly to rewrite the constitution and give the president more power, the...

 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said overnight air strikes killed at least eight people in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta. The deaths were the first civilian casualties in the area - the last major rebel stronghold near Damascus - since a cessation of hostilities was declared...

The Australian foreign minister on Tuesday rejected the United Nations refugee agency's allegation that her government reneged on a deal to resettle some refugees who attempted to reach Australia by boat. The UNHCR said on Monday it had agreed to facilitate a deal in which the United States...