U.S. Vice President Mike Pence Sunday revived talk of the possibility the United States may move its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, saying President Donald Trump was seriously considering the matter. During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Trump's team spoke often about moving the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-Syrian regime's ruling party, Al Ba'ath, has graduated of the first batch of the women's Battalion in Hasaka province, activists said. "Khansawat of Syria” to operate in regime-controlled areas of the countryside of Qamishli city. Activist Abdullah al-Qamishlawi reported...

 The Syrian opposition rejects terrorism and is "fed up" with banned militants but they cannot be stopped if Syria continues evicting populations of besieged areas, opposition negotiator Basma Kodmani said on Sunday. Syria's government has always cited the fight against terrorism to...

 Iran said Sunday it will impose sanctions on 15 US companies for supporting Israel's "terrorist actions" as part of reprisals for the increasing pressure being announced by Washington lawmakers. The decision, which is largely symbolic since the firms do not do business with Iran, come...

U.S.-backed Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State in Syria said on Sunday they had taken full control of a former regime army airport near the city of Tabqa along the Euphrates River. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a U.S.-led...

An academic at an Australian university has been prevented by Chinese authorities from returning to Sydney because he's suspected of endangering national security, his lawyer said Sunday. Border officials at an airport in the southern city of Guangzhou refused to let Feng Chongyi, an...

A joint committee of ministers from OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers has agreed to review whether a global pact to limit supplies should be extended by six months, it said in a statement on Sunday. An earlier draft of the statement said the committee "reports high level of conformity and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior domestic opposition figure said Sunday the delegates in Geneva delivered a draft on the Transitional Governing Authority and its powers to the U.N. Syria envoy. Hassan Abdel Azim, the head of National Coordination Body for Democratic Change affirmed the readiness to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 militants from Ba'ath Battalions have been killed by rebels in central Hama province in the past two days, pro-regime news feeds said. The paramilitary group that formed by regime suffers lack of training and war experience since most of the members are university...

At least six people, including two policemen, have died in explosions in eastern Bangladesh as troops battle suspected militants holed up with an ammunition cache, police said Sunday. The explosions Saturday on a road near an Islamic religious school in the city of Sylhet also wounded at...

ISIS has warned that the Tabqa dam, which a U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab militia is trying to capture from the militant group, is at imminent risk of collapse because of airstrikes and increased water levels. It also said in messages carried on its social media channels that the dam's...

A Kurdish and Arab Syrian militia backed by the United States has captured the town of Karama as it prepares for an assault on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa that it expects to take place in early April, it said on Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has trapped Raqqa in a shrinking...

A leading Syrian opposition group is calling on the U.S.-led coalition to stop targeting residential areas in and around Raqqa, ISIS's de facto capital. The Syrian National Coalition says it is "increasingly concerned" about civilian casualties in the campaign against the extremist group....

When South Korea's Sewol ferry sank three years ago killing more than 300 people, it also devastated businesses close to the wreck site. Now owners hope its salvage will herald a change in their fortunes. The ship went down in an archipelago off southwestern South Korea, whose 1,700 islands...

The Arab League chief says 29 percent youth unemployment is one of the region's biggest challenges. Ahmed Aboul-Gheit spoke Sunday, ahead of a summit of Arab leaders later in the week. He told economic ministers from the region that economic and social issues should take priority at the...

Russian protesters denouncing government corruption have gathered in cities across Russia and arrests have been reported. The Sunday protests appear to be one of the largest coordinated outpouring of dissatisfaction since the massive 2011-12 demonstrations following a fraud-tainted...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A doctor and wounded man were killed Saturday when regime warplanes dropped a chlorine-loaded barrel bomb on Latamaneh hospital in central Hama province, activists and local monitor said. "The hospital is out of service now," Hama Health Directorate said in statement due...

The Hamas movement has closed the Erez crossing between the blockaded Gaza Strip and Israel Sunday, in response to the mysterious killing of one of the group's leaders. Interior Ministry spokesman Iyad al-Bozum said it was part of security measures put in place after Mazen Fuqaha, a leader...

Iraqi's military said on Sunday 61 bodies had been recovered from a collapsed building that was boobytrapped by ISIS in Western Mosul, but there was no sign it had been hit by a coalition strike though a large vehicle bomb was discovered nearby. The statement was a response to reports by...

A state election Sunday in western Germany offers Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives a tough test against their resurgent center-left rivals six months before Merkel seeks a fourth term in a national vote. The election for the state legislature in Saarland, a region of just under 1...