A Pennsylvania man was arrested at President Donald Trump's Washington hotel early on Wednesday after police found a rifle, pistol and ammunition in his car, a discovery they said may have prevented a disaster in the U.S. capital. Brian Moles, 43, of Edinboro, was taken into custody shortly...

Germany's Interior Ministry says deportation of Afghans whose asylum requests have been rejected has been temporarily suspended in the wake of an attack in Kabul that seriously damaged the German Embassy. A flight to Kabul planned for Wednesday has been put off and spokesman Johannes Dimroth...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman al-Wasl) The city of al-Lataminah has been at the forefront of events since the start of the Syrian revolution. The regime forces destroyed al-Lataminah city located on the right bank of the Assi River by bombarding it with various types of weapons. Most of the city’s...

Germany's top security official says he's ordered the re-examination of up to 100,000 decisions granting asylum to migrants after uncovering mistakes in a smaller probe undertaken after a German soldier was able to pass himself off as a Syrian refugee in a bizarre far-right plot. Interior...

 ISIS militants have closed the streets around Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque, residents said, apparently in preparation for a final showdown in the battle over their last major stronghold in Iraq. Dozens of fighters were seen by residents taking up positions in the past 48 hours around...

Western-backed Syrian rebels said on Wednesday that Russian jets attacked them as they tried to advance against Iran-backed militias in a region of Syria's southeastern desert. They said six jets bombed their positions as they moved towards Zaza checkpoint near Sabaa Biyar, a small town near...

U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Axios news outlet reported on Wednesday, citing two unidentified sources with direct knowledge of the decision. Trump who has previously called global warming a hoax, refused to endorse the landmark climate...

 Marc Bartra has opened up for the first time about the April 11 bomb attack which blasted the Borussia Dortmund team bus and left the defender with a fractured wrist. "There was a loud bang and I felt a warm wave of pressure, then a great pain in my arm," he told Sport Bild magazine...

A Bahraini court Wednesday ordered the dissolution of the main secular Waad opposition group and the seizure of its assets, Waad said on its Twitter account. The ruling is part of a wider crackdown by the Western-allied government that has included outlawing opposition groups, imprisoning...

( The Guardian )- A 12-year-old Victorian girl was killed in a car bomb explosion in Baghdad on Tuesday as she lined up at a popular ice-cream parlour to break fast for Ramadan. The girl, a year seven student from Thomastown in Melbourne, was in the Iraqi capital with her family to visit her...

( Al-Jazeera )- When Mahmoud Nowar was released from detention, doctors told his father that he was so withered and malnourished that he would only have survived a few more days of starvation and torture at the hands of Syrian government forces. The pro-democracy activist and former resident...

At least 80 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter, bringing carnage to the streets of the Afghan capital and shattering windows hundreds of meters away. Bodies littered the scene and a towering plume of smoke...

Russians warships in the Mediterranean Sea have fired four cruise missiles at ISIS' positions in Syria, the Russian defense ministry said Wednesday. The ministry said in a statement that the Admiral Essen frigate and the Krasnodar submarine launched the missiles at ISIS targets in the area...

An activist investigating working conditions at a supplier for Ivanka Trump's brand in China has been detained, his NGO said Wednesday, putting another spotlight on Chinese business activities linked to the U.S. presidential family. Two other men who were working on the investigation have...

President Donald Trump has been handing out his cellphone number to world leaders and urging them to call him directly, an unusual invitation that breaks diplomatic protocol and is raising concerns about the security and secrecy of the U.S. commander in chief's communications. Trump has...

Russia and Saudi Arabia hailed their growing partnership in oil markets and dialogue on Syria on Tuesday, in a departure from past hostilities between the top global producers and major players in the Middle East. Russian President Vladimir Putin heaped praise on Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed...

( The Guardian )- It could be any other startup bootcamp. Thirteen teams nervously chatter among themselves, waiting for Dania Ismail, director of Jusoor, to open proceedings. But these entrepreneurs are from Syria and many will have gone to great lengths to travel to Lebanon to take part. “We...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Abdul Basset al-Sarout, Syrian revolution Icon and vocal supporter, has been detained by former a Qaeda group in northern Idlib province, such a move sparks anger of the opposition activists who demanded his imminent release.   Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham, powerful...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Faylaq al-Sham, rebel group operating in Aleppo province, has made a prisoner exchange with Iran-backed Shiite militias, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday.   The Iraqi militia of al-Nujaba’ that fights in support of Bashar al-Assad in the northern province,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl Arabic has published names of 439 Syrian military pilots in a move seeks to shed the light on Syria’s war criminals who carried out, and still, thousands of raids that claimed lives of half million people in the war-torn country. The nominal list...