Afghan security forces fired into the air Friday to hold back protesters demanding the resignation of President Ashraf Ghani's government following this week's devastating truck bomb attack in Kabul, Reuters reporters said. More than 1,000 demonstrators gathered near the site of Wednesday's...

President Donald Trump's administration asked the US Supreme Court on Thursday to reinstate its controversial ban on travelers from six Muslim majority nations despite repeated setbacks in the lower courts. In its filing, the government asked the highest court in the land to rule on the...

China and the European Union will show unity in fighting global warming at a summit in Brussels on Friday, a day after President Donald Trump announced he would withdraw the United States from an international climate pact. The meeting between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and top EU officials...

The U.S. military said on Thursday it had bolstered its "combat power" in southern Syria, warning that it viewed Iran-backed fighters in the area as a threat to nearby coalition troops fighting Islamic State. The remarks by a Baghdad-based spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition battling...

Donald Trump’s fractious first meeting with NATO has left European allies wondering where the military alliance goes next, according to diplomats in Brussels who held a post-mortem on the U.S. president’s visit this week. After apparently moderating his stance toward an organization he once...

( The Guardian )- Donald Trump will not order the moving of the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in the near future, despite strong lobbying in recent days by senior Israeli officials. A senior US official disclosed that Trump – like all his presidential predecessors – has...

US President Donald Trump Thursday expressed sadness and sympathy for victims of what he labelled a "terrorist attack" at a casino in the Philippines capital Manila. "We're closely monitoring the situation," Trump said in response to the gunfire attack, which was quickly claimed by the...

Algeria has agreed to take in 41 Syrian refugees trapped since mid-April in a desert area that borders neighboring Morocco, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The decision comes two days after the UN refugee agency said the plight of the refugees -- who include a pregnant woman -- was...

Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage is a "person of interest" in the U.S. investigation into possible collusion between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, the Guardian reported on Thursday citing unidentified sources. The London-based newspaper said Farage had not been accused of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hussam al-Atrash, a senior leader in Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, published a series of tweets saying that Sunnis in Idlib and its environs should hand over the area to the Interim Government to administrate since it had international legitimacy in a bid to avoid genocide and the...

At least two people were killed when a car exploded in Saudi Arabia's eastern city of Qatif on Thursday, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya television reported. It said initial reports indicated the victims were "fugitives", a term that suggested people being sought by the kingdom's security services....

Egypt defended on Thursday a new law on non-governmental organizations that three U.S. Republican senators have called "draconian" and a sign of "a growing crackdown on human rights and peaceful dissent". UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein also criticized the law,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel group operating in northern Aleppo province denounced a footage went viral on social media for a man severely tortured by a suspected Free Syrian Army unit.   Al Hamza Division and Liwa al-Sultan Mouhamed al-Fatih, separately, said that they are not...

President Donald Trump has decided not to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem for now, a US official said Thursday, shying away from a major campaign promise. An official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Trump had signed a legal waiver that keeps the embassy in Tel Aviv,...

A meeting between the two men who run Russia and Saudi Arabia's oil empires spoke volumes about the new relationship between the energy superpowers. It was the first time that Rosneft boss Igor Sechin and Saudi Aramco chief Amin Nasser had held a formal, scheduled meeting - going beyond the...

Thousands of people have demonstrated in northern Morocco for the sixth straight night as protesters demand the release of the leader of a popular movement in the neglected Rif region. The Rif has been shaken by social unrest since the death in October of fishmonger Mouhcine Fikri, 31, who...

About 10,000 civilians have fled to a camp just north of ISIS' bastion of Raqqa with hundreds more arriving each day as the battle for the city nears, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Residents are escaping Raqqa under cover of night as U.S.-backed forces close in, taking...

About a dozen civilians were wounded on Thursday by ISIS mortar shells as they tried to escape from the Zanjili district held by the militants in Mosul, Iraqi police said. Zanjili is part of the enclave that remains in the hands of ISIS in the northern Iraqi city, alongside the Old City...

President Vladimir Putin says the Russian state has never been involved in hacking. Speaking at a meeting with senior editors of leading international news agencies Thursday, Putin said that some individual "patriotic" hackers could mount some attacks amid the current cold spell in Russia's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians were killed when two explosive devices detonated at the roadside in southern Daraa province, activists said Thursday.   The attack targeted a vehicle carrying Free Syrian Army commanders on the road of Kafr Shams-Aqraba in the northern countryside....