Syria's ambassador to North Korea denounced U.S. aggression and "history of interventions" on Monday and said sending a "message" to North Korea with an attack on a Syrian airfield was irresponsible. North Korea has conducted several missile and nuclear tests in defiance of U.N. sanctions...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army on Monday killed 9 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the southern countryside oif Hama province, rebel commander told Zaman a-Wasl. 10 more militants were wounded in the surprise attack on checkpoints near Salamiya town. Rebel said they had seized...

Three people were injured in clashes between militants and local tribes in the Sinai peninsula in a fight that began when militants shot at a truck smuggling cigarettes into the area, Egyptian security officials said Monday. The officials told The Associated Press that ISIS militants...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday urged Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to seek "respectful dialogue" within the country after his narrow win in a referendum extending his powers. "The (German) government expects that the Turkish government will now seek respectful dialogue...

Iraqi forces gained fresh ground in door-to-door fighting in the Old City of Mosul, a military spokesman said Monday, as the U.S.-backed offensive to capture ISIS' de facto capital in Iraq entered its seventh month. A Reuters correspondent saw thick smoke billowing over the Old City, near...

Repair work at a Basra oil jetty damaged by a tanker collision last month were completed Sunday, two officials at state-run South Oil Company told Reuters Monday. Crude exports from the Basra terminal were not affected by the collision that happened on March 24, when strong winds caused a...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hadi al-Bahra, the former president of the Syrian National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, said that the US administration has finally folded the page on its cooperation with the al-Assad regime in the fight against the Islamic...

Turkish stocks and the lira strengthened Monday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan narrowly won a referendum on expanding his powers, with investors hoping the outcome would bring much-needed stability. On Sunday, the 'Yes' side won 51.41 percent of the vote compared with 48.59 for the...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Monday that diplomats from Russia, the United States and the United Nations plan to discuss the Syrian crisis in Geneva next week, Russian news agencies quoted him as saying. Bogdanov also said Moscow was still waiting for confirmation...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan's government is drawing up contingency plans in case a crisis on the Korean Peninsula sends an influx of refugees to Japan. Abe told a parliamentary session Monday that the government is formulating measures including protecting foreigners, landing...

Ten people have died and five were injured when a bus veered off a highway and fell into a river in southern China. The Xinhua News Agency reported that four people were reported missing in the accident Monday morning in Guizhou province. The state news agency says the 19-seat bus was...

Turkey's main opposition party is preparing to contest the results of a referendum that gave a narrow victory to President Tayyip Erdogan's wishes to greatly expand the powers of his office. The "yes" vote got 51.41 percent in Sunday's referendum, while the "no" vote got 48.59 percent,...

Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails launched a hunger strike Monday following a call from leader and prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian Authority official said. Issa Qaraqe, head of prisoners affairs for the Palestinian Authority, said that "around 1,300 Palestinian...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stared across the demilitarized border between North and South Korea Monday, a day after North Korea's failed missile launch, reiterating that the U.S. "era of strategic patience" with Pyongyang was over. Pence is on the first stop of a four-nation Asia tour...

 UK lawmakers are calling on the government to strip Syrian President Bashar Assad's wife of her British citizenship, for supporting her husband's regime during the country's ongoing war. The Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs spokesman, MP Tom Brake, on Sunday accused Assad of...

White House national security adviser H. R. McMaster said on Sunday it was time for tough talks with Russia over its support for Syria's government and its "subversive" actions in Europe. Speaking on ABC News' "This Week" program, McMaster said Russia's backing of Syrian President Bashar...

The Syrian army regained the strategic town of Soran near the city of Hama in the central part of western Syria on Sunday with an assault backed by heavy Russian air strikes, rebels and residents said. Most of the rebels had retreated from the town after troops stormed it following dozens of...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed 10 people in a border town with Iraq as the U.S. airdropped ground forces near Albukamal town in eastern Syria, local monitoring group said Sunday.  Activist Ahmed Ramadan from Furat Post, or Euphrates Post, said at least 10...

President Tayyip Erdogan celebrated what he said was a clear result in a referendum on Sunday to grant him sweeping new powers, but opponents said they would challenge the vote count which gave a narrow 51.3 percent lead to Erdogan's supporters. Nearly all ballots had been opened for...

Votes in favor of Turkish constitutional changes that could give President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers stood at 52.8 percent with around 90 percent of ballots opened, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Sunday. Votes against the changes have been rising, taking the lead in...