An explosion in the St Petersburg metro system Monday has killed at least 10 people, according to "preliminary information," Russian news agency TASS reported. A Reuters witness saw eight ambulances near the Sennaya Ploshchad metro station. Another agency, RIA Novosti, said there...

Tunisia is to hold municipal polls on Dec. 17, the country's first since its 2011 revolution, the electoral commission announced Monday. After legislative and presidential votes in 2014, on the back of the adoption of a new constitution, local polls aim to complete the process of...

When Jaafar's grandmother recognized him by his birthmark in a Turkish orphanage, months after his parents were killed fleeing Syria's civil war, she held him tight, screaming for joy. The story of how Hajar Saleh, a 47-year-old nurse, spent fraught weeks tracing her grandson in a foreign...

State-owned media in the United Arab Emirates are reporting that Dubai police have arrested a group of foreign hackers that targeted five White House officials in an email blackmail scheme. The Arabic-language Al Bayan newspaper and the television channel Dubai One reported the arrests...

An Egyptian human rights lawyer said Monday he had launched an appeal against a court ruling which backed Cairo's proposed transfer of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's government announced last year a maritime demarcation accord with Saudi Arabia, which...

Three police personnel were killed Monday in a suicide bombing in Iraq’s western city of Fallujah, according to a local military officer.  A bomber blew up his car at a checkpoint in the city’s western entrance, Army Colonel Walid al-Dulaimi told Anadolu Agency.  He said seven...

Tottenham Hotspur must learn from last season's poor late form as they attempt to chase down Premier League leaders Chelsea in the closing weeks of the campaign, manager Mauricio Pochettino has said. Last season, Spurs won just four of their final nine games as Leicester City pulled away to...

Bahrain's top court Monday reduced the jail sentence of Shiite opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman, who has been in prison since 2014, a judicial source said. The Sunni-ruled kingdom's court of cassation reduced Salman's sentence from nine to four years, the source said on condition of...

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says there's no question Russia was involved in the U.S. presidential election and insists President Donald Trump would fully support strong action against the Kremlin once investigations are complete. Speaking in television interviews broadcast...

(Al-Monitor)- Is it a coincidence that the Trump administration’s flurry of statements that it no longer actively seeks the departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad came during US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Turkey last week? In a press availability with Turkish Foreign...

British police said Monday they had arrested nine people after a "brutal" attack on a teenage asylum seeker involving a group up to 20 assailants in south London. Detectives, who are treating the incident as a hate crime, said the 17-year-old Kurdish Iranian boy was left with serious head...

One evening in the early days of Syria’s uprising, Mohsen al-Masri’s band of activists slipped through the Damascus streets and waited for the coast to clear. Then they crouched, opened their bags and let out a stream of color. Thousands of ping-pong balls, painted green, pink, blue and...

 Apple has given Imagination Tech notice that it will stop using its graphics technology in the iPhone and other products in up to two years' time, dealing a major blow to the British company. Imagination said Apple, its biggest customer, had not presented any evidence to substantiate...

South Korea's Lotte Group will continue to invest in its China business despite diplomatic tensions over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, a Lotte executive said Monday, denying rumors it wants to scale back there. Chinese authorities closed dozens of Lotte retail stores...

U.S. President Donald Trump meets his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Washington Monday, welcoming a strongman leader who has faced harsh criticism for his human rights record. For Sisi, the first foreign leader to congratulate Trump following his surprise election victory, the...

 An international human rights group Monday accused Israel of barring foreign researchers from entering the Gaza Strip to document abuses, saying the restrictions call into question Israel's stated commitment to investigating possible rights violations. In a 47-page report, Human Rights...

By Rami Diba (Zaman Al Wasl)- An official source in the Syrian resistance in the south of Damascus confirmed that the factions in the towns of Yalda, Babila, and Beit Sahm did not coordinate or communicate with the parties involved in the Zabadani and Madaya - Kafriya and Al-Fu’ah agreement....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia arrested around 30 civilians in major conscription campaign in Hasaka province after they objected to their children being conscripted by force into the militias subordinate to the Democratic Union Party. According to local sources, the Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Assef Shawkat, once Syria's most powerful man and ruling family's son-in-law, remained hostage to the Assad family’s decision till his death in Damascus bomb attack on July 18, 2012. Shawkat is one of the few figures in Syrian contemporary history whose life as an...

The Italian government said Sunday that dozens of rival tribes in southern Libya had agreed to cooperate on securing the country's borders in an effort to curb the influx of migrants trying to reach Europe. Italy's interior ministry said the 60 tribal leaders -- notably the Tuareg of the...