A German aid worker and an Afghan guard were killed as gunmen stormed an international guest house in central Kabul, officials said Sunday, as insecurity rises in the war-torn country. A Finnish woman is missing and presumed to be kidnapped in the attack late Saturday on the guest house run...

 A spokesman for the Nigerian army says troops fought Boko Haram in the Lake Chad area, killing 13 of the Islamic extremists and arresting 10 others, including 6 women believed to have helped smuggle supplies to the insurgents. Col. Timothy Antigha said soldiers of the of 8 Task Force...

The United States and Gulf Arab countries will sign an agreement on Sunday to coordinate their efforts against the financing of terrorist groups, a senior White House official said, as U.S. President Donald Trump visits the region. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and U.S. Secretary of...

 The United States has proposed to Russia a plan for managing an increasingly complex battlefield in Syria's main oil-producing region, where U.S.-backed forces fighting Islamic extremists are in conflict with Russian-backed Syrian forces. Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford declined to describe...

North Korea on Sunday fired a ballistic missile from an area near its capital, Pyongyang, South Korea's military said, in the latest weapons test for a country speeding up its development of nuclear weapons and missiles. The missile was fired from an area near Pukchang, in South Phyongan...

A court in the Gaza Strip on Sunday sentenced three men to death over the assassination of a Hamas military commander that the Islamist movement accused Israel of masterminding. After a trial that lasted four days, two of the accused were sentenced to be hanged and one to be shot, the...

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party has kicked off a congress to re-elect President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as its chairman after last month's referendum. Erdogan will return to lead the party he co-founded after Sunday's extraordinary congress in Ankara. Last month's referendum on...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he hoped to visit Egypt, after meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi during a trip to the Saudi capital Riyadh. "I will get to Egypt. We will be putting that on the schedule soon," he said. He said Sisi had "done a tremendous job...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local workers in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh raised a banner threatening Syrian refugees to not work in the Hezbollah-held city. ''O Syrian , the hand that extends to our livelihood will be cut off." More than 1.2 mn Syrian refugees live in Lebanon under severe...

The United States on Saturday said it hoped Hassan Rouhani, Iran's newly re-elected president, will halt his country's support for "destabilizing forces", end ballistic missile tests and carry out democratic reforms during his second term. "We hope that if Rouhani wanted to change Iran's...

Dogged by controversy at home, Donald Trump won a warm reception in Saudi Arabia on Saturday but struggled to shift attention from the political firestorm over his firing of former FBI Director James Comey. A $110 billion deal in which Saudi Arabia will buy U.S. arms to help it counter Iran,...

By Ahmed Khalil (Eqtsad)- The cost of living has significantly increased in Syria reaching levels exceeded the ability of current salaries and income to cover. Salaries of employees in Syria range between SP25,000 and SP42,000 according to the grade (from grade 5 to grade 1 respectively) and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime and the Islamic State agreed to evacuate remaining fighters from the besieged Yarmouk Camp south of the capital, well-informed source said Saturday. The deal was scheduled to take effect since a year and half but the rival Jaish al-Islam and former al-Qaeda group...

Syrian rebels started leaving the last opposition-held district of Homs city Saturday in the final phase of an evacuation deal that will see President Bashar Assad's government take back the area in the seventh year of the country's war. At least one bus left al-Waer carrying fighters and...

 Turkey's state-run news agency says the country has intensified its training of Syrian opposition fighters. Anadolu Agency reported Saturday that Turkish special forces are training larger Free Syrian Army groups in the use of weapons including mortars, rocket launchers and machine...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl) Members of the Syrian opposition participating in the Geneva 6 Talks said the level of discussion in this round retreated significantly. Sources pointed out that the negotiating atmosphere is no longer at the level of the Syrian crisis. In statements to...

The United States said on Friday it believed forces in a convoy targeted by U.S. military aircraft in southern Syria on Thursday were Iranian-directed, in a possible sign of increased tension between Washington and Tehran in the Syrian war. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters at the...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees in Lebanese town of Arsal went to streets on Friday calling for the release of their relatives in the Lebanese prisons as hunger strike enters the fifth day in the notorious Roumieh prison. The Syrian refugees have joined a public Lebanese demand of...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)-  How can you make life out of the killing machine and its tools? Just follow what young people from the Jaydour area in the northern West Bank village of Daraa did when they turned the military reconnaissance battalion which was bombing, killing and arresting them into...

A suicide bombing near the oil-rich city of Basra killed at least eight people as ISIS took the fight against Iraqi forces deep into the country's south, a military commander said Saturday. Five civilians and three troops were killed when the bomber blew up his explosives-laden car Friday at...