U.S. President Donald Trump honored military veterans in Washington on Saturday at a Kennedy Center event that resembled both a political rally and an evangelical Christian religious service ahead of the July 4 Independence Day holiday. Using the podium again to lash out at the news media,...

Israeli security forces detained a female Palestinian lawmaker on Sunday for alleged security offenses. The Shin Bet internal security service said Khalida Jarrar was arrested along with a Palestinian activist near the West Bank city of Ramallah for "promoting terror activities," without...

President Donald Trump defended his aggressive use of Twitter on Saturday just hours after firing off his latest volley in his escalating feud with U.S. media. Following an early morning Twitter tirade at CNN, NBC and a morning show host he taunted as "dumb as a rock," the president then...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was released from prison early Sunday days after a parole board granted him early release from his 27-month corruption sentence. Prison Service spokesman Assaf Librati said Olmert, 71, was whisked away by Israel's security service after his release...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Mali on Sunday to boost Western backing for a regional anti-extremist force, with France urging greater support for the Sahel region amid mounting insecurity. The so-called "G5 Sahel" countries south of the Sahara - Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali,...

Turkey's official news agency says two ruling party officials serving in district organizations have been shot and killed, and ruling party officials blamed Kurdish militants. The Anadolu news agency says Orhan Mercan, a vice president of an AKP branch in the southeastern Diyarbakir...

At least 19 people have been killed after a suicide bombing struck an eastern district of Damascus, according to a Syrian state television report. It said security forces intercepted three suicide car bombers on Sunday morning, blowing up two at the entrance to the city. The third was able to...

No U.S. nuclear power plant has been penetrated in a cyber attack, an industry spokesman said on Saturday, when asked to comment on a U.S. government warning last week about a hacking campaign targeting the sector. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation...

British business leaders have been told to brace for the possibility that Prime Minister Theresa May's government may walk out of Brexit talks this year, according to the Sunday Telegraph. The move would be designed for "domestic consumption" to show the government is negotiating hard with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees who endured to major assault by Lebanese army on Friday say fighting terrorism is no major than pretext to expel Syrians from the border town of Arsal. Zaman al-Wasl reporter who interviewed many of Arsal refugees said the displaced Syrian in Lebanon are...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Two top army officers killed in an explosive device planted by the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province on Saturday, pro-regime media outlets said. M. General Wahib Sakr and his fellow Ghassan Rached along with an officer and driver were killed...

The death toll from a major cholera outbreak in Yemen has risen to 1,500, Nevio Zagaria, the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative in Yemen, said on Saturday, and appealed for more help to put an end to the epidemic. Yemen has been devastated by a 27-month war between a Saudi-led...

Brazil's top federal prosecutor said on Saturday that he took no pleasure in charging President Michel Temer with corruption, but given the clear indications of graft committed by the leader, there was no alternative. Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot said at an investigative journalism...

A Syrian rebel group accused the Syrian army of using chlorine gas against its fighters on Saturday in battles east of Damascus - an accusation the military swiftly denied as a fabrication. The Failaq al-Rahman group said more than 30 people suffered suffocation as a result of the attack in...

The Syrian government on Saturday dismissed a report by the international chemical weapons watchdog that said the banned nerve agent sarin was used in an April attack in northern Syria, saying it lacked "any credibility". Western governments including the United States have said the Syrian...

More than 5,000 civilians were killed in civil war-torn Syria in the first six months of 2017, according to a London-based NGO. According to a new report released by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) on Saturday, at least 5,381 civilians, including 1,059 children and 742 women, have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition killed a family of five, including 3 children, in airstrikes targeted north of Deir Ezzor province in support of Kurdish-led fighters who press to expel ISIS from the de facto capital, local sources said Saturday. The US-led strikes also pounded a prison...

Japan and the European Union are on the cusp of a wide-ranging free trade agreement that could help blunt the forces of protectionism sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies. EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said she was "quite confident" that a broad agreement can be...

Five North Koreans in a small boat crossed the sea border into South Korean waters Saturday, a Coast Guard official said, in an apparent bid to defect to the South. The five people, including four men and one woman, have expressed their wish to live in the South as defectors, the Yonhap news...

Pope Francis on Saturday pushed out the Vatican's conservative doctrine chief, tapping a deputy instead to lead the powerful congregation that handles sex abuse cases and guarantees Catholic orthodoxy around the world. Francis and German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller had clashed, most recently...