Tourists and travelers at airports across Italy are facing delays and canceled flights thanks to strikes by air traffic controllers and air transport workers. Italy's flagship carrier, Alitalia, said it was cancelling some 40 percent of its domestic and international flights Monday. Air...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes hammered opposition-held suburbs of Damascus with more than 40 air strikes, killing at least 13 civilians after regime forces pushed back a surprise attack into the heart of Damascus. Rebels and allied groups, led by former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh...

Syrian government representatives will attend upcoming peace talks in Geneva, Russia's state RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov. Bogdanov said Moscow hoped that Syrian armed opposition would be able to attend the peace talks. Bogdanov also...

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Israel's Ambassador to Moscow to protest an Israeli military strike near the Syrian city of Palmyra, news agency Interfax quoted a ministry official as saying on Monday. Ambassador Gary Koren was called for discussions at the ministry last Friday, the...

A US diplomat has been expelled from New Zealand after Washington refused to waive diplomatic immunity so police investigating a serious crime could question him, officials said Monday. Details of the alleged crime have not been revealed but local media reported the diplomat left the South...

 U.S. officials began taking fingerprints of asylum seekers in an Australian-run camp on the Pacific island of Nauru on Monday, signalling that vetting of applicants for resettlement in what U.S. President Donald Trump called a "dumb deal" has restarted. Australia agreed with former...

International Business Machines Corp has launched a service that will allow businesses to build applications on its cloud using blockchain code from the Hyperledger Project, the cross-industry group led by the Linux Foundation. The U.S. technology company said on Monday its new product...

Taiwan's government, worried about being used as a pawn by China and the United States, said on Monday the self-ruled island must protect its own interests as concerns in Taipei rise ahead of an expected meeting of U.S and Chinese leaders. China has never renounced the use of force to take...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish hospital refused to admit Sham, a Syrian infant in Turkey who suffers of big Meningocele, because her parents have not obtained the refugees ID card yet. Sham from Deir Ezzor, she was born with big Meningocele, almost as big as her size,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels made surprise gains on Sunday, taking ground at the eastern gate of the capital links between Qaboun and Jobar neighborhoods amid state of chaos in regime ranks and people of the capital, activists said. Rebels launched a major offensive early on Sunday that...

President Abdelaziz Bouteflika appeared on television Sunday for the first time since a visit by Germany's chancellor was called off last month because of the Algerian leader's ailing health. State television showed the 80-year-old president receiving Algeria's minister for African Union and...

Around 3,000 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Sunday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the Italian coastguard told AFP. "After some calm days, migrants are arriving in large numbers, taking advantage of a window of favourable weather," said a coastguard...

Berlin on Saturday blasted Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a spiralling diplomatic row, saying the strongman had gone too far in accusing Chancellor Angela Merkel of "Nazi practices". "We are tolerant but we're not stupid," Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel told the Passauer Neue...

Thousands of people have joined rallies across Germany and other European countries to show their support for the idea of a united Europe. The weekly protests began last year as an attempt to counter growing nationalist sentiment on the continent, often expressed in opposition to the...

Tens of thousands have flowed out of war-wracked Mosul in recent weeks, but Samir Hamid and 33 family members have decided to go against the tide to return home. "We stayed with relatives for a week and now we're going back home," says the father-of-five, who has travelled with his extended...

Martin Schulz on Sunday officially becomes Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief challenger in Germany's September general election and will lay out his plans for unseating the world's most powerful woman. The bearded Social Democrat, already credited with giving his ailing party a strong shot in...

Just before midnight in a sleepy district of Beirut, dozens of Syrian refugees huddle in small groups around bulging suitcases, clutching their pinging cellphones and one-way tickets to Italy. "Torino! Pronto! Cappuccino!" They practise random Italian words in a schoolyard in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led coalition airstrikes killed 10 civilians, including 5 children, west of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State, activists said Sunday. Half of the victims were members of a displaced family that fled Eastern Aleppo to Raqqa. Meanwhile, Syria Democratic Forces...

A Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen called on Sunday for the United Nations to place a strategic port under its supervision after a helicopter attack on a boatload of Somali refugees left 42 dead. The refugees had departed from the western port city of Hodeidah en route to Sudan when the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised Sunday the possibility of snap elections following a dispute with his finance minister over a new national broadcasting service. Local papers, radio and television channels carried Netanyahu's threat to dissolve the government -- the most...