Vincent Kompany was among the scorers as Manchester City beat Southampton 3-0 to climb above Liverpool into third in the Premier League on Saturday. After an entertaining yet goalless first half, City's captain Kompany headed home his first league goal since August 2015 following two...

At least 25 soldiers and rebels have died in clashes around a key military base near Yemen's west coast, military and medical sources said Saturday. Loyalist forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition launched an assault to seize the Khaled Ibn Al-Walid base from Shiite Houthi rebels and their...

( The New Arab )- Russia criticised the world's chemical weapons watchdog for not sending experts to the site of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, saying it was "unacceptable to analyse events from a distance". But the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is in a...

At least 43 people were killed Saturday in a suicide car bomb attack on buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns, opposition-aligned activists said in an updated toll. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of the dead were evacuees, but they...

Iran will ask "no one's permission" to build up its missile capability, President Hassan Rouhani said Saturday, in what appeared to be a defiant response to U.S. efforts to hamper the Iranian military. Facing an election in May where he hopes to secure a second four-year term, Rouhani has...

 Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai accused his successor on Saturday of committing treason by allowing the U.S. military to drop the largest conventional bomb ever used in combat during an operation against ISIS militants in Afghanistan. Karzai, who also vowed to "stand against...

Once soft on Russia and hard on China, President Donald Trump has reversed course in just a few short weeks. He's concluded there's more business to be done with Beijing than with Moscow. Trump's evolving views on those two world powers have brought the U.S. back into alignment with...

A bomb blast hit a bus convoy waiting to enter Aleppo on Saturday, killing and wounding dozens of people after an evacuation deal between Syria's warring sides halted and stranded thousands at two transit points on the city outskirts. Pro-Damascus media outlets said a suicide attacker had...

An Iraqi military officer says ISIS militants have launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated area in western Mosul. The officer with the anti-terrorism forces said Saturday that the attack occurred the night before in the al-Abar neighborhood, when ISIS fired a rocked loaded with chlorine....

North Korea has held a vast military parade to celebrate the birth of its founding father, Kim Il-sung, as it warned it was prepared to take the “toughest” action unless the US ended its “military hysteria”, with speculation growing that the regime is preparing to conduct a nuclear test. On...

Recep Tugcu is convinced: ever since "Tayyip" has been in power, Turkey is living through "its golden age." So he has no hesitation in voting "Yes" in Sunday's referendum on expanding the president's powers. The head of state's detractors accuse President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of showing...

Spain's maritime rescue says it has rescued 125 migrants trying to make nighttime crossings from Africa in three smuggling boats. All three of the small boats were located before daybreak on Saturday. The first boat, carrying 41 men and 11 women of sub-Saharan origin, was located by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday have recaptured ground lost to favor of regime forces this week in northwestern province of Hama amid heavy aerial bombing by regime air force, field sources said. At least 10 regime troops killed in the rebels counterattack south of Helfaya town. Two...

German prosecutors are examining a third claim of responsibility for blasts that rocked Borussia Dortmund's team bus it was reported Saturday, but no new suspects have emerged. With Dortmund players due back on the pitch in the Bundesliga, police are pursuing leads regarding the attack on...

US-backed fighters have advanced to the edge of a key extremist-held town in northern Syria, a monitor said Saturday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an Arab-Kurdish alliance supported by US-led coalition air strikes and special forces advisers, surrounded Tabqa in early April. The...

Sri Lankan officials say at least 10 people were killed and 12 others injured when a massive mound of garbage collapsed on part of a poor neighborhood in the capital during festivities to mark the local new year. The Disaster Management Center said Saturday that 75 people whose homes were...

Thousands of Syrians were stuck in and around Aleppo on Saturday as a deal to evacuate people from two Shi'ite villages in return for Sunni rebels and their families leaving two towns near Damascus halted, a war monitor and activists said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Strategic al-Manshiya district in southern Daraa city is almost under rebel control after rapid advances against regime and Shiite militias this week, rebel task room command said Saturday. al-Bonyan al-Marsous Operation Room, in statement issued Saturday, said rebels had...

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories are claiming success with the first in a new series of test flights involving an upgraded version of a nuclear bomb that has been part of the U.S. arsenal for decades. Work on the B61-12 has been ongoing for years, and government officials say the...

North Korea rolled out intercontinental ballistic missiles and other military hardware at a massive parade on Saturday to celebrate the birthday of the country's late founder, as third-generation leader Kim Jong Un looked on in delight. State television showed Kim, wearing a black suit and...