Germany, whose relations with Turkey have been strained by a series of rows, will decide within two weeks whether to withdraw troops deployed at Turkey's Incirlik air force base, a German Foreign Ministry official said on Sunday. Roughly 250 German troops are based at Incirlik to help in the...

 French President Emmanuel Macron says his now famous white-knuckle handshake showdown with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump was "a moment of truth" - designed to show that he's no pushover. Macron told a Sunday newspaper in France that "my handshake with him, it wasn't innocent."...

Roland Garros opened its gates for the main tournament of the French Open amid tight security on a searing hot Sunday. World number one Angelique Kerber was practicing on a sunkissed Court Philippe Chatrier, which seemed to have been washed out by the early showers, before the start of play...

Members of Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi's network are still potentially at large, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday, after the terrorism threat level was lowered due to significant progress in the investigation. Police have said they have arrested a large part of...

For the second day in a row, Pope Francis has expressed his solidarity with Egypt's Coptic Christians following an attack on a bus carrying Coptic pilgrims to a remote desert monastery. Francis led thousands of people in prayer Sunday for the victims, who Francis said were killed in "another...

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Saturday ended a 40-day hunger strike over conditions in Israeli jails, the Israel Prison Service and a Palestinian official said. About 1,100 inmates had initially taken part in one of the largest such hunger strikes, which began on April 17. It raised...

Two Iraqi military officers say the advance of troops has slowed in the last push to drive ISIS militants from remaining pockets of Mosul. The officers, who spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, say ISIS militants have deployed snipers, suicide car bombers and...

( Middle East Eye )- As a child in Damascus, Maha al-Sayyed always looked forward to going to the hairdresser with her grandmother. The atmosphere, the smell of nail polish, and the voices of women socialising were addictive to Sayyed, who loved leaving the salon with a new look every time....

British Airways resumed some flights from Britain's two biggest airports on Sunday after a global computer system failure sowed chaos, grounding planes and leaving thousands of passengers queuing for hours. BA said it aimed to operate a near normal schedule of flights from Gatwick airport...

Egypt launched a fresh round of air strikes over Libya on Saturday, Egyptian military sources and an eyewitness told Reuters, targeting militant camps it said were responsible for a shooting spree that killed dozens of Egyptian Christians. On Friday, Egyptian fighter jets struck eastern...

Turkey's military killed 13 members of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in air strikes in northern Iraq on Sunday, the military said in a statement. The warplanes struck seven PKK targets in the Avasin-Basyan region of northern Iraq, and killed militants believed to be preparing...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has supervised the test of a new anti-aircraft weapon system and ordered its mass production and deployment throughout the country, the state news agency reported on Sunday, after weeks of defiant ballistic missile tests. The North's KCNA news agency did not...

Bodies of what appeared to be executed civilians were found in a ravine outside a besieged Philippine city on Sunday as a six-day occupation by Islamist rebels resisting a military onslaught took a more sinister turn. The eight dead men, most of them shot in the head and some with hands tied...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish Democratic Union militia on Sunday has mourned 4 members killed by the Islamic State in the eastern provinces of Hasaka and Raqqa, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. YPG, the armed wing of PYD, is a key group in the U.S.-led Syrian Democratic Forces where hundreds...

By Abdullah Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 15,000 students have been studying in the universities of  the opposition-held areas in Aleppo and dlib, according to the Interim Minister of Higher Education. Abdul-Aziz al-Daghim said despite the security condition,...

Iran's hardline Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday Saudi Arabia's rulers faced "certain downfall" for aligning themselves with the United States, hours after the country's pragmatist president called for improved ties with Gulf states. "They (Saudi leaders) act...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prosecuting former Free Syrian Army members or revolution supporters who fled to Europe has turned into nightmare for many. The EU courts have been following cases brought against them by unknown people who are believed to be the regime's sleeper cells. They...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed detainees held by ISIS in the western countryside of Raqqa on Saturday as the radical group defies Kurdish warning to surrender by the end of May, activists said. The strikes hit an ISIS prison in al-Mansoura town, leaving dozen killed and...

President Donald Trump on Saturday said his maiden trip abroad was a "home run" and he vowed to overcome the threat of terrorism, concluding a grueling five-stop sprint that ended with the promise of an imminent decision on the much-discussed Paris climate accord. Trump ended his nine-day...

 Tunisian security forces on Saturday rescued 126 sub-Saharan migrants including seven pregnant women who had been trying to reach Europe from Libya, a Red Crescent official said. Fishermen had alerted the authorities to the presence of a vessel in distress off Ben Guerdane in southern...