(Zaman Al Wasl)- A UNDP charity partner released statistics indicating that the Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces and the Global Coalition forces destroyed tens of houses in the village of al-Badia in Jabal Abdul Aziz area, west of Hasaka. The news comes ahead of plans to rebuild the village...

France has leapfrogged the United States and Britain as the world's top so-called soft power, helped by the election of President Emmanuel Macron, a study of countries' non-military global influence showed Tuesday. While France has risen, Donald Trump's ascent to the White House has seen the...

German prosecutors said on Tuesday they were checking reports that a 16-year-old German teenager under investigation for supporting Daesh (ISIS) was among five women arrested in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Iraqi forces last week declared victory over Daesh in Mosul, though clashes continue in...

The president of the Spanish Football Federation, Angel Maria Villar, was detained by police Tuesday as part of a corruption probe, a judicial source said. Villar, 67, a former Spanish international footballer, was being held on suspicion of abusing his position to embezzle funds from the...

Heavy rainfall has caused floods in Istanbul, inundating roads, underpasses and subway lines and causing havoc in the city. Several vehicles were stranded in the floodwaters on Tuesday and television footage showed a rescue crew entering an underpass in a rubber boat to help trapped...

President Donald Trump's administration on Monday declared that Iran was complying with its nuclear agreement with world powers, but warned that Tehran was in default of the spirit of the accord and that Washington would look for ways to strengthen it. It was the second time Trump certified...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives took a first step toward tax reform on Tuesday, with the release of a fiscal 2018 budget plan that would allow a tax reform package to pass the U.S. Congress without support from Democrats. The $4 trillion blueprint, which must be approved by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 36 regime troops, including 6 officers, from Tartus province in the first half of July by rebels and Islamic State, regime news feeds said. Most of regime deaths were Alawites, the Assad family's sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, since the the Syrian war turned...

 Samsung Electronics says it will recover gold and other metals in the recalled Galaxy Note 7 and retrieve components from the fire-prone phones to reduce wastes. The South Korean company said in a statement Tuesday it will likely retrieve 157 tons of gold, silver, cobalt, copper and...

A group representing German insurers says the rioting that accompanied the Group of 20 summit earlier this month could cost insurance companies up to 12 million euros ($13.8 million). Host city Hamburg saw three nights of violence amid anti-globalization protests as leaders of the world's...

Hossein Fereydoun, the brother of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, has been released on bail following his arrest on charges of financial crime, media reported. "The court has accepted the bail" and Fereydoun, who acts as a key adviser to Rouhani, was freed on Monday night, the ISNA news...

A suicide car bomber killed four people at a checkpoint in a Kurdish-controlled area of northeastern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A Kurdish official confirmed an attack targeting a checkpoint operated by the Asayish Kurdish internal security force, but had...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday Moscow reserved the right to take retaliatory measures against the United States after a meeting in Washington ended without a deal on returning seized Russian diplomatic property. Barack Obama, then U.S. president, ordered the seizure of two Russian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four members of Asayish, Kurdish Police force, were killed on Monday when a car bomb set off near their base in Hasaka province, residents and Asayish said. A Kurdish official confirmed to Reuters that the attack targeting a checkpoint operated by the Asayish but had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine regime troops killed and wounded in the ongoing clashes with the Islamic State in the Syrian desert, pro-regime news feeds said Monday. The casualties included General Brigadier as heavy clashes take place near al-Sukhna town, 220 km (150 miles) east of central...

Japan called Monday for increased pressure on North Korea, saying this is not a time for dialogue. Government spokesman Norio Maruyama said North Korea reached "a new level" with its latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile as Americans celebrated Independence Day on July 4....

Syrian government forces have swept across territory south of the Daesh (ISIS) stronghold of Raqqa, capturing a string of villages and oilfields from the militants, state media said Monday. The landscape south of Raqqa city strategically borders several provinces: Aleppo to the west, Homs to...

At least 15 Yemeni rebels and eight soldiers were killed Monday as government forces attacked insurgent positions in two areas in the southwest of the country, military officials said. Government forces attacked Huthi rebels and their allies, renegade troops loyal to ex-president Ali...

Nearly one in 10 infants received no vaccinations in 2016, meaning that they missed the first inoculation against three lethal diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. A full 12.9 million infants received no vaccinations last year, WHO found in a joint report with the UN's...

The people of war-torn Afghanistan continue to bear the brunt of the grinding conflict with civilian deaths at their worst since records began, the United Nations said Monday. In the first half of the year, 1,662 civilians were killed and more than 3,500 injured with deaths in the capital...