United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was set to name a former Lebanese culture minister as new U.N. envoy to Libya, ending an unusually contentious four-month search that followed U.S. rejection of his first suggestion. Guterres on Friday officially put forward Ghassan Salame, a...

Egypt's Investment Minister Sahar Nasr will finalise the executive regulations for a newly issued investment law within 10 days and submit them to the prime minister for approval, she told Reuters on Saturday. "I formed a ministerial committee which I head with all relevant ministries and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists on Saturday circulated footage on social media for a man was brutally tortured by an Islamist group in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs over claim he works for Jaish al-Islam. Hassan Yahia from Saqba suburb said he had been tortured by militants affiliated to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have prevented displaced people from returning to their homes in the rural areas of Raqqa following the expulsion of the Islamic State fighters from their villages and towns. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, a local source said that some of...

A Muslim "peace march" against terrorism has been held in the German city of Cologne but has drawn fewer participants than organizers had hoped for. The dpa news agency reported that a few hundred people gathered for the demonstration Saturday, with placards such as "Together against terror"...

Russia said Saturday that airstrikes carried out this month had killed about 180 ISIS fighters in Syria, including two field commanders. "As a result of June 6 and 8 aerial strikes on targets belonging to IS fighters, ISIS field commanders Abu Omar al-Belgiki and Abu Yasin al-Masri were...

Five Malian soldiers were killed and eight wounded on Saturday in an attack on a military camp in the north, the army said Saturday. Nine vehicles were also destroyed in the attack on the camp at Bintagoungou at about 5:00 am, an army statement said. Local sources had told AFP earlier...

British police said that 58 people were now assumed to have died in this week's blaze at a London tower block. "Sadly at this time, there are 58 people who we have been told were in Grenfell Tower on the night that are missing and therefore sadly I have to assume that they are dead,"...

The Iraqi army and Sunni tribal fighters have dislodged Islamic State from the al-Waleed border crossing into Syria, an Iraqi military statement said on Saturday. The capture of al-Waleed removes Islamic State fighters from the vicinity of a U.S. base located on the other side of the border,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unknown assailants killed a prominent rebel fighter in coastal Latakia province amid hike in targeting rebel commanders by pro-regime militias, field source said Saturday. Mohamed Ali, commander in the Division 13, key Free Syrian Army unit, was assassinated by an armed group...

Romanian border police have detained 32 Iraqis hidden in a truck transporting furniture who told authorities they were trying to reach a country in Europe's visa-free Schengen travel zone. Police stopped the truck at the Romanian-Hungarian border Saturday and the Romanian truck driver told...

The United Nations special mediator for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, wants to start a fresh round of talks between Syrian factions on July 10, his office said on Saturday. Since a resumption of negotiations last year, there have been multiple rounds brokered by the United Nations between...

A solemn Queen Elizabeth II marked a minute of silence Saturday for victims of the London high-rise inferno that killed at least 30 people as exhausted firefighters continued their grim search for more bodies. Public anger was mounting as residents and neighbors demanded answers for how the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was too early to speak about retaliation against a possible new round of sanctions that the United States is considering imposing on Moscow, state news agency RIA reported on Saturday. "We need to see how it is all going to be. That is why it is...

Turkish authorities on Saturday freed the top advisor to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim detained on suspicion of links to the movement of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen blamed for last year's failed coup, state media reported. Birol Erdem, a former senior justice ministry official,...

 The Libyan coastguard has rescued more than 900 African and Asian migrants attempting to reach Europe, a navy spokesman said on Saturday. "A coastguard patrol from Zawiya (west of Tripoli) intercepted five inflatable boats and a wooden vessel carrying 906 migrants at dawn on Friday,"...

A Cairo criminal court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for 31 people convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of Egypt's top prosecutor, the most senior state official killed by militants in recent years. The court set a verdict session for July 22, after referring its...

The Syrian military has announced the cessation of all combat operations in the southern city of Daraa for 48 hours in support of national reconciliation. The announcement Saturday comes days after the contested city witnessed some of the worst fighting in months amid fears by opposition...

President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time Friday that he is under federal investigation as part of the expanding probe into Russia's election meddling. He lashed out at a top Justice Department official overseeing the inquiry, reflecting his mounting frustration with the unrelenting...

 (Zaman Al  Wasl)- Turkish-backed rebels in northern city of al-Bab ended five days of infighting as 12 rebel factions sign a deal regulates using of weapons and demands rebels to evacuate military bases in the former ISIS stronghold, local council said Saturday. It was not clear...