A federal judge in Michigan halted on Monday the deportation of more than 1,400 Iraqi nationals from the United States, the latest legal victory for the Iraqi nationals facing deportation in a closely watched case. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith granted a preliminary injunction requested...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Faisal Yusef, a member of the General Secretariat of the Kurdish National Council, said that the Kurdish National Council parties worked under the oppression and tyranny of the al-Assad regime and the parties insist on their objectives to achieve...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- On Monday, June 26, 2017, the Syrian regime published pictures and reports showing Bashar al-Assad's visit to the countryside of Hama, where he surprised wounded soldiers from his army by visiting them in their homes. Al-Assad's visit came as part of...

Manchester United defeated Real Madrid in an ugly penalty shootout Sunday with seven players failing to convert from the spot after their International Champions Cup match ended 1-1 in northern California. United, who won the shootout 2-1, took the lead just before halftime when Anthony...

Jordan's King Abdullah II Monday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to remove new security measures at a sensitive Jerusalem holy site. Speaking to Netanyahu by phone, the king stressed "the need to find an immediate solution and remove the reasons for the ongoing crisis at the...

French President Emmanuel Macron has told U2 frontman Bono that France will respect its commitment to boost development aid, Bono told reporters after meeting Macron in Paris. The rock singer, who heads the ONE anti-poverty foundation, said Macron had confirmed France would boost its aid...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes killed two women and two children were fleeing ISIS-held territory near Raqq city on Monday, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl as regime forces and allied militia pressed new gains. The Russian warplanes hit a crowd of displaced people near...

United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov warned on Monday that a solution was needed by Friday to the Jerusalem mosque crisis, which he said threatens to have "potential catastrophic costs well beyond the walls of the Old City." Israel installed metal detectors at entry points to...

( The Daily Mail )- The jihadist takeover of Syria's key Idlib province raises the prospect that the region could become the next target of the international participants in the country's complex war. The northern province is one of only two that have fallen from regime control since the war...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes struck rebel-held Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital on Monday, despite Safe Zone deal that reached with Russia two days ago, local activists said. The airstrikes hit towns of Douma, Harasta, Housh al-Dhwahra and Eiyn Tarma, leaving several...

Donald Trump's war of words against his attorney general and one-time ally Jeff Sessions escalated Monday, raising speculation the president may be preparing the ground to replace him. Trump took to Twitter to declare his top lawyer "beleaguered" as he wondered out loud why Sessions was not...

Libya's coastguard rescued an estimated 278 migrants including women and children Monday off the shores of two different towns west of the capital Tripoli, a spokesman said. The coastal towns to the west of Tripoli - Zawiya, Sabratha, and Zuwarah - are common departure points for migrants...

( The New Arab )- Israel has reportedly closed its embassy and consulate in Turkey amid rising tensions over the al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem. The Israeli Foreign Ministry ordered the closure of its embassy in Anakara and consulate in Istanbul as as a "precautionary" measure, Israeli news...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian refugee children have been killed on Monday as Lebanese Hezbollah militant steps up its artillery bombardment on Wadi Hamid camps at the Syrian-Lebanese border amid pleas to provide human corridor for trapped refugees. ''The situation is catastrophic,''...

A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people, many of them police, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, officials said, shattering a period of relative calm in Pakistan's second-largest city. The blast wrought carnage near the Lahore Technology Park in the center of the city,...

 A man armed with a chainsaw injured at least five people in Switzerland on Monday and is on the run after a rampage that police said was not "a terrorist act". Authorities were first alerted about the attack in the old quarter of Schaffhausen at 10:39 am (0839 GMT), the ATS news agency...

Jordan said Monday it was looking to question an Israeli security guard who killed two Jordanians at the Amman embassy compound, as Israel insisted he had diplomatic immunity. A Jordanian government source said Israel was "still examining the request" to quiz the guard involved in Sunday's...

Israel said on Sunday it would not remove metal detectors whose installation outside a major Jerusalem mosque has triggered the bloodiest clashes with the Palestinians in years, but could eventually reduce their use. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security Cabinet on Sunday...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed Monday to press on with his controversial drug war that has claimed thousands of lives, as he outlined his vision of an "eye-for-an-eye" justice system. Duterte devoted large chunks of his annual State of the Nation Address to pushing his...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Strange diseases have started spreading in Damascus largely due to the regime institutions neglecting the environmental situation and the condition of the infrastructure which has started to change as a result of the destruction, the spread of garbage, and presence of bodies in...