A Palestinian tried to stab Israeli police in the occupied West Bank on Monday and was shot dead, Israeli authorities said as U.S. President Donald Trump visited Jerusalem. The incident occurred in the Abu Dis area, near Jerusalem but located in the West Bank. No police officers were hurt,...

Intense clashes broke out in Syria's Daraa on Monday between government forces and insurgents with both sides shelling parts of the southern city that has been declared a safe zone under a recent Russia-sponsored deal, opposition activists and state media said. Daraa, the site where...

Cholera has killed 315 people in Yemen in under a month, the World Health Organization has said, as another aid organisation warned Monday the outbreak could become a "full-blown epidemic". The WHO has recorded another 29,300 suspected cases of cholera in 19 provinces across the war-torn...

 Security forces Monday fired tear gas at protesters as they tried to storm a gas and oil installation in southern Tunisia, local radio stations said. Residents have been camping outside the El Kamour gas and oil pumping station in the Tataouine region for around a month to demand they...

France's foreign ministry said Monday that the reopening of its embassy in Syria was not on the table, signalling there may be no fundamental change to Paris' approach to the Syrian conflict under new president Emmanuel Macron. Citing a political source close to Macron, pan-Arab daily...

Russia agreed Monday to lift remaining trade sanctions against Turkey imposed in the wake of the shooting down by Turkish air forces of a Russian warplane over the Syrian border in 2015. The state-run Anadolu news agency said a corresponding accord was signed on the sidelines of a summit of...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have pledged $100 million to a women's business fund supported by Ivanka Trump, daughter of the president who Monday wound up a visit to Riyadh. World Bank president Jim Yong Kim announced the donation from both oil-rich Gulf states Sunday, during a...

Liverpool had little time to celebrate the return of Champions League football to Anfield before the squad departed for Australia Monday to play in a post-season friendly linked to the club's 125th anniversary. Juergen Klopp's side, who finished fourth after beating Middlesbrough 3-0 in...

 Iraq has achieved its share of the production cuts agreed by OPEC and non-OPEC producers at the end of last year but remains ready to meet future oil demand growth, Iraqi oil minister Jabar al-Luaibi said in a speech Monday. "Iraq as the second-largest producer in OPEC confirms its...

Two Iraqi officers say an attack on a military training center in Diyala north of Baghdad has killed at least four soldiers and wounded four, including two officers. The officers say six attackers struck the base Monday morning. Five detonated suicide vests once inside the center and the...

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in northwest Syria that killed at least 14 insurgents. ISIS said in a statement Monday the attack against Ahrar al-Sham fighters was carried out by one of its members who parked his booby trapped motorcycle outside the group's office and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A state of anger took over in the coastal city of Tartus as the Recruitment Division in the regime army demanding for 72,000 reservists. The ages of those demanded for reserve army range 33 to 41 year-old, the last of the Tartous males who did not join the army or militias...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  King Salman bin Abdulaziz and President Donald Trump agreed in Riyadh to paralyzing Iran's role in Syria and in the region through striking its military arms and allied militias, well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Iran's policy has hammered the region with...

The trial opened Monday of more than 220 suspects, including over two dozen former Turkish generals, accused of being among the ringleaders of the attempted coup last year aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey blames the attempted July 15 putsch on the U.S.-based Muslim...

 Malaysia has deployed 11 ships and two helicopters to search for a naval craft which went missing with nine crew members during an anti-poaching patrol, officials said Monday. The small boat, from the warship KD Perdana, disappeared Saturday in calm waters off Cape Sedili in the...

A bomb blast at a hospital in the Thai capital, Bangkok, wounded 24 people Monday, on the third anniversary of a 2014 military coup. There was no claim of responsibility for the blast at the Phramongkutklao Hospital, which is popular with retired military officers. Read More:...

After an exhausting two days in Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Donald Trump travels to Israel on Monday, attempting to revive the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process with visits to Jerusalem and the West Bank. Over two days, Trump is to meet separately with both Israeli Prime Minister...

EU ministers are set Monday to give Frenchman Michel Barnier the European mandate to negotiate Britain's exit from the bloc, which he expects to start in earnest in mid-June following British elections. Barnier will lock horns with Britain's Brexit minister David Davis who has predicted "the...

( The Washington Post )- Despite President Trump’s reluctance to get deeply involved in the Syrian civil war, the United States now finds itself in the middle of an escalating battle in the country’s south that last week led to a clash between the U.S. military and Iranian-backed pro-government...

 (Zaman al-Wasl)- Anas Abdul Salam from the city of Daraa is the real name of a detainee who escaped from the hell of the Assad regime and went out to tell the world that there is an underground world in Syria full of death and terror where detainees are turned into numbers waiting for...