Sherpa rescuers have found the bodies of four climbers inside a tent on the highest camp on Mount Everest, raising the death toll this climbing season to 10, authorities said Wednesday. The bodies were found by a team of rescuers who were there to recover the body of a Slovak mountaineer who...

Flying objects that prompted South Korean forces to fire warning shots this week appeared to be balloons carrying propaganda leaflets from the North, Seoul's military said Wednesday. On Tuesday the defense ministry said troops had opened fire when an unidentified flying object entered the...

A team from the international chemical weapons watchdog found exposure "to sarin or a sarin-like substance" in samples from an April 4 attack in northern Syria that killed over 90 people and now wants to visit the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday....

(Zaman al-Wasl) In Roumieh Prison in the Lebanese capital Beirut Syrian detainee Abdul Rahman al-Attar nicknamed Abu Mohammed al-Mughawir has been detained for more than two years without trial or a clear charge according to activists. Al-Attar, a former commander of the al-Maghawir Brigade...

US-led air strikes on Syria killed a total of 225 civilians over the past month, a monitor said on Tuesday, the highest 30-day toll since the campaign began in 2014. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the civilian dead between April 23 and May 23 included 44 children and 36 women....

British police Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who killed 22 people, including children, in an attack on a crowded concert hall in Manchester, and said they were trying to establish whether he had acted alone or with help from others. The man suspected of carrying out Britain’s...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Perhaps Deir al-Zour and al-Tabaqa military airports in addition to Queires airport reveal the close connections between Assad regime and ISIS and what has been talked of a coordination that serves both parties.  Al-Tabqa airport was famous for withdrawal of major...

Donald Trump on Tuesday arrived in Rome for a high-profile meeting with Pope Francis in what was his first official trip to Europe since becoming US President. Trump, on a tour that has already taken him to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Palestinian territories, touched down in the Italian...

Egyptian prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention for one day of an opposition leader widely tipped to challenge President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in 2018 elections following a complaint that he made an obscene finger gesture on the street outside a Cairo courtroom in January, according to one...

US President Donald Trump's emphatic embrace of Sunni Arab regimes and his vilification of Iran mark a stark departure from the vision of his predecessor Barack Obama in the volatile region, analysts say. Pointedly delivering his first foreign speech in Riyadh on Sunday, Trump praised the...

The United Nations is working to obtain security assurances needed to dispatch an international team of experts to the site of last month's suspected sarin gas attack in Syria, a UN official said Tuesday. At least 88 people died in the April 4 alleged attack at Khan Sheikhoun, in rebel-held...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Tuesday took two villages from the Islamic State in Raqqa province, tightening "their noose" on the radical group in an advance to isolate its base of operations, local activists said. The Kurdish-led alliance has imposed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The secondary certificate exams and final exams of all grades of essential education will start Wednesday, May 24, in all liberated areas under supervision of the Interim Ministry of Education. Mohammed Saleh Ahmado, member of the high committee of examination reported that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian military pilot and top officer in Shyarat airfield was killed on Monday in the northern countryside of Hama, pro-regime news feeds said. General Brigadier Zuhair Aboud was one of 45 pilots operating in Shayrat airfield, 16 miles, 26 km to east of Homs that also...

A car bomb exploded in Homs on Tuesday morning, Syrian state television said, two days after the city went back under full government control for the first time since 2011. Authorities destroyed another vehicle rigged with explosives near a Shi'ite Muslim shrine south of Damascus, the...

The United States' top intelligence official says the U.S. government has not yet verified that ISIS is responsible for the attack in Manchester, England, but called the deadly incident a reminder of how serious the terror threat remains. "This threat is real, it's not going away, and it...

 Myanmar's top Buddhist body has banned hardline group Ma Ba Tha, according to a document sent out on Tuesday, a move aimed at curbing the movement's influence amid rising Islamophobia. Myanmar has been gripped by deepening religious tensions that have repeatedly spilled into violence,...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir accused Egypt on Tuesday of supporting rebels at war with Khartoum, a week ahead of a visit to Cairo by Sudan's foreign minister aimed at easing tensions between the neighboring states. Egypt and Sudan have been at odds in recent months over a litany of...

The Eiffel Tower's lights will be turned off at midnight Tuesday in homage to victims of the Manchester Arena attack that claimed at least 22 lives, the Paris mayor said. In Britain's deadliest terror attack in 12 years, police said a man detonated a bomb in the northwest English city at a...

Suspected oil rebels attacked a gas pipeline in Nigeria's restive south, breaking a fragile truce between them and the government, an oil company spokesman told AFP Tuesday. The attack on a pipeline operated by the Nigerian Gas Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum...