President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that new U.S. economic sanctions imposed against Iran contravened the country's nuclear accord with world powers and he vowed that Tehran would "resist" them, state television reported. The Trump administration slapped the new sanctions on Iran on...

At least 20 Yemeni civilians were killed and many others were wounded when a coalition air strike hit a village in the south, officials from the armed Houthi movement and the government said on Wednesday. The U.N. said the victims of Tuesday's bombing, which hit al-Atera village in Taiz...

Iraq's prime minister has acknowledged that human rights violations were committed during the battle to retake the city of Mosul from Daesh (ISIS), but says they were "individual acts." Haider al-Abadi told reporters during a press conference Tuesday that those behind such acts were either...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed 15 family members, including 11 children, were escaping heavy aerial bombing in Raqqa province, local activists said Wednesday. Two families, mostly women and children, from Zour Shammar village were the latest victim of...

Google on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its search app on mobile phones to include a personalized feed of links about hobbies, travel, sports and other topics, a move that puts the search company into more direct competition with social networks such as Facebook. Google, the world's...

U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Jon Huntsman, an envoy to China under former Democratic President Barack Obama, as U.S. ambassador to Russia, the White House said on Tuesday. The job, all the more high-profile because of allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential...

France's head of the armed forces Pierre de Villiers has resigned, a statement from his office said, days after a public dispute with President Emmanuel Macron over proposed defense budget cuts. In the statement, de Villiers said he had sought to maintain a French defense force able to do an...

A German newspaper publisher says it has filed an appeal to Turkey's highest court against the incarceration for the past five months of a German-Turkish reporter. Deniz Yucel, who works for the daily Die Welt, was arrested Feb. 14 in Istanbul. Turkish authorities accuse him of disseminating...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes are still ongoing between Ahrar al-Sham and Tahrir al-Sham, the main Islamist groups in Idlib for the second day ending 2-day-old truce amid fears of widespread violence in the whole northern province. The fight extended to 14 towns and villages in the...

Ritta al-Jalees doesn't care who's to blame for the deteriorating state of healthcare in Gaza. All she wants is to ensure her three sons get the help they need to breathe. The boys, aged nine months and six and seven years, all of whom suffer from cystic fibrosis, are getting weaker because...

 Hunkered down on the top floor of an abandoned building, two Americans and a British volunteer face off against Daesh (ISIS) snipers in the Syrian city of Raqqa. The trio, including two who served in the French Foreign Legion and the war in Iraq, have made the war against Daesh their...

Desperate to help Syrians stuck on Jordan’s sealed border, U.N. agencies agreed late last year to an aid system that critics say handed much of the control over aid distribution to Jordan’s military and a Jordanian contractor, and also involved armed men on the Syrian side. Since then, the...

(Eqtsad) Working and earning a living online is still relatively weaker in the Arab world compared to the West, but with the emergence of an Arab generation that is technologically savvy, many have become more experienced and willing to experiment with online initiatives. Young Syrian are among...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has doubts about U.S. Middle East peace efforts, according to a transcript of a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron. Israeli newspaper Haaretz obtained a transcript of part of the talks Netanyahu held with Macron when they met for the...

Muslims boycotted a Jerusalem holy site for the third day running Tuesday after Israeli authorities installed metal detectors and cameras at entrances to the sensitive compound following an attack that killed two policemen. As in previous days, dozens of worshippers prayed outside the Haram...

Egyptian police have killed two leaders of the Hasam militia in a shootout after intercepting them as they relocated to a new hideout on Cairo's outskirts, the government said Tuesday. The interior ministry said the two militants were "prominent leaders" of the Hasam group - an extremist...

 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government on Tuesday condemned a "brutal" and "imperial" threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose economic sanctions if plans to set up a controversial new congress were not withdrawn. Reading the government's response to Trump's statement...

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said on Tuesday the army would carry out an operation in an area of the border with Syria that has been a base of operations for militants including jihadist groups. Speaking in parliament, Hariri described the operation planned for the Juroud Arsal...

A Palestinian driver rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and was shot dead by the troops, the Israeli military said. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials. Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance service said two of the...

After Republicans' effort to pass a healthcare bill in the Senate collapsed on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday put the blame on Democrats and a few members of his own party, but vowed to come back with "a great healthcare plan." "We were let down by all of the Democrats and a...