President Emmanuel Macron is starting to realign France’s foreign policy, setting out plans to be less interventionist in conflicts abroad and putting his country’s national security at the heart of diplomacy. When Macron, 39, took office just over a month ago, he was widely expected to put the...

The death toll from twin blasts that tore through a crowded market on Friday in Pakistan's northwestern tribal belt has risen to 37, officials said. Both blasts came during rush hour in Parachinar on the last Friday of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month, wounding more than 150 people, senior...

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that a future war waged by Israel against Syria or Lebanon could draw thousands of fighters from countries including Iran and Iraq. His comments indicated that the same array of Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias - but not countries -...

Against a backdrop of crumbling buildings in the rebel-held Douma district east of Damascus, hungry Syrians sat down together on the rubble-strewn streets to break fast with a free Ramadan meal. On the menu was minced meat, rice, beans, dates, apricots, yoghurt and fruit juices, enjoyed by...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians killed on Friday in Russian airstrikes on Deir Ezzor as regime forces broke into the eastern province for the first time since 2014, a monitor and activists said, after seizing territory from ISIS. Activist Firas Allawi told Zaman al-Wasl that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Leader of the Islamist Movement of Ahrar al-Sham has placed the flag of the revolution next to him while he was delivering a speech on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr. In a step the first of its kind for the faction considered one of the largest and most active military...

European Union leaders pledged Friday to boost their support for conflict-ravaged Libya as the number of people fleeing Africa on crowded, unsafe boats for better lives in Europe continues to rise. European Council President Donald Tusk said the central Mediterranean Sea route to Italy for...

President Donald Trump suggested he was just trying to keep fired FBI Director James Comey honest with his cryptic tweet implying there might be recordings of their private conversations. Trump ended a month-long guessing game Thursday by tweeting that he never made and doesn't have...

Syrian regime forces on Friday broke into the eastern Deir al-Zor province for the first time since 2014, a monitor said, after seizing territory from ISIS. Government forces control part of Deir al-Zor city and the adjacent military airport, but ISISholds the vast desert province and most...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime and the U.S.-led airstrikes have killed 6 civilians in central Homs province on Friday as fighting escalates against the Islamic State in territory near the Syrian desert, local activists said. Three people were killed by regime strikes in the northern...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned 502 prisoners before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, including prominent businessman Hesham Talaat Moustafa, who is accused of the slaying of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim. Security sources said that among those pardoned was Hesham Talaat...

The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send a group of experts to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help investigate an explosion of deadly violence in the Kasai region. A council resolution called on the U.N. rights office to dispatch a team of international experts to help...

U.S.-led coalition air strikes on two Syrian provinces targeting militants have killed 472 civilians over the past month, a monitor said Friday, more than double a previous 30-day toll. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the period between May 23 and June 23 saw the highest...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian regime warplanes killed five people in strikes hit a marketplace in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus as people pouring to buy basic needs before the Eid al-Fitr, a religious holiday marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, local activists said Friday....

Turkey's defense minister warned on Friday that Ankara would retaliate against any threatening moves by the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria and welcomed a U.S. pledge to take back weapons from the group after the defeat of Islamic State. Washington sees the YPG as an essential ally in the...

A fire that killed at least 79 people at a London tower block started in a Hotpoint fridge freezer, and the outside cladding engulfed by the blaze has since been shown to fail all safety tests, London police said on Friday. Detective Superintendent Fiona McCormack said that in view of the...

Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi is urging the West to change course in the Middle East in order to save the historic atomic deal, saying "the moment of truth has arrived". The accord, reached between Tehran and world powers in Vienna in July 2015, saw Iran drastically curb its nuclear...

A Syrian man accused of seeking 180,000 euros ($200,000) from someone he thought was a member of ISIS to finance attacks in Europe has gone on trial in Germany. News agency dpa reported that the 38-year-old's trial opened Friday at the state court in Saarbruecken. He is charged with...

A cholera outbreak in war-ravaged Yemen could infect more than 300,000 people by the end of August, up from nearly 193,000 cases today, the United Nations said Friday. "Probably at the end of August we will reach 300,000" cases, UN children's agency spokeswoman Meritxell Relano told...

EU leaders tackle the thorny topic of globalization at a summit on Friday with deep divisions between proponents of free markets and others seeking more protections, most notably France. The election of "America First" President Donald Trump has sown confusion in Europe, with free trade...