(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has ceased admissions to governmental and local schools for Syrian and Yemeni students who entered the Kingdom as visitor or family member, Syria residents said. The Ministry of Education and Teaching in Saudi Arabia had three months ago issued a...

( The Guardian )- Saudi Arabia’s deputy crown prince has said there is no space for dialogue with the Iran due to its ambitions “to control the Islamic world”. The rare and wide-ranging interview, which aired on multiple Saudi TV channels, offered a glimpse into how Mohammed bin Salman...

 North Korea Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a U.S. citizen who was lecturing in Pyongyang -- the third American held in the country amid growing tensions with Washington. Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, was detained at the capital's airport on April 22, as he tried to leave the country...

Iran's reformist former president Mohammad Khatami has skirted a media ban to endorse moderate incumbent Hassan Rouhani for a second term over conservative challengers in a tight May 19 election. Khatami, who during his 1997-2005 presidency oversaw a rapprochement with the West, has been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian militias had a fierce battle with the Syrian resistance in the countryside of Hama province, according to a short film aired by Russian media outlets. The film documented moments of clashes between the so-called “Turan Battalion" and fighters of the Syrian Resistance...

A car bomb killed at least five people and wounded several others in a rebel-held town in northern Syria on Wednesday in an attack Syria's political opposition said targeted its officials and local headquarters. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also put the death toll...

A powerful blast targeting a foreign forces convoy near the U.S. embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul killed at least eight people and wounded 25 Wednesday, officials said, the latest attack in the Afghan capital. Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish confirmed the toll, telling AFP...

Venezuela's angry opposition is set to hold a huge protest rally Wednesday against unpopular President Nicolas Maduro's proposal to rewrite the constitution, dismissing it as a ploy to avoid holding elections and cling to power. In an oil-rich country saddled with shortages of food, medicine...

An aid convoy of food and medical supplies has reached the besieged Syrian town of Douma for the first time since October, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday. Along with the United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, the ICRC went into Douma with 51...

Iran will provide military advisers to Syria for as long as necessary in support of President Bashar al Assad's forces, a senior commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards was quoted on Tuesday as saying. Iran has provided military support to Assad's forces since at least 2012, but...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday moved to ease the tension from U.S. air strikes in April against Russian ally Syria, expressing a desire for a Syrian ceasefire and safe zones for the civil war's refugees. The two leaders spoke by phone for the...

(Zaman al Wasl)- Syrian regime has increased the tax on the goods and food entering the rebel-held Daraa province in a step pushing for more harsh living conditions, activists said. Every food staple and anything enter the southern province via the the new crossing point in Kherbat Gazaleh...

A powerful local tribe in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula says it killed eight suspected ISIS fighters in battle and captured three more. The Tarabeen tribe has clashed repeatedly with a local ISIS affiliate in recent weeks, opening a new front against the insurgency raging in the northern Sinai,...

US-backed fighters battled to clear ISIS from a final pocket of Syria's Tabqa on Tuesday after seizing 90 percent of the city, the force and a monitor said. Tabqa sits on the Euphrates River as well as on a strategic supply route about 55 kilometers (35 miles) west of Raqqa, the Syrian heart...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven local councils in the Eastern Ghouta called on Jaish al-Islam to end its offensive in the embattled suburbs and to end the fighting with rival groups, saying the main loser will be civilians and nothing else, according to statement issued Tuesday. The civil councils...

A British extremist who concealed incriminating information in USB-equipped cufflinks was sentenced to eight years in jail for possession of articles for terrorist purposes and other charges. Samata Ullah, 34, of Wales, had pleaded guilty to five offenses in March and admitted membership in...

The top U.S. military officer in Europe raised concerns about Turkish air strikes in Syria and Iraq during a meeting last week with Ankara's chief of general staff in Turkey, a U.S. official said on Tuesday. General Curtis Scaparrotti told General Hulusi Akar last Friday that the strikes...

Two Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah targets in Syria in recent weeks seem to mark a more openly assertive stance toward the group after years of shadow boxing, requiring careful calibration to avoid escalation into a war that neither wants. For most of the six-year-long conflict in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led airstrikes killed three civilians and wounded several more east of Shaddadi town in northeastern Hasaka province, residents said Tuesday. The attack was in retaliation to a deadly four ISIS suicide bombing on Rajm al-Salibi, the location of a checkpoint and refugee...

Around 900 Jordanians are currently fighting for ISIS and al-Qaeda inspired groups in Syria and Iraq but recruitment numbers have fallen sharply to their lowest ever levels, a senior Jordanian official told Reuters on Tuesday. Those now fighting in Iraq and Syria had mostly left Jordan, a...