President Donald Trump welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday for a White House meeting that could help determine the future of the transatlantic alliance and shape the working relationship between two of the world's most powerful leaders. The new U.S. president and the...

Canadian politicians will head to Washington next week for three days of meetings in hopes of stressing to the Americans the importance of the Canadian-U.S. relationship, particularly trade. The Inter-Parliamentary Group (IPG), as the annual meetings are called, will feature about a dozen...

The Israeli military said it shot down one of numerous anti-aircraft missiles launched on Friday at its air force which was operating in Syria. Rocket sirens had sounded in Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank and two Reuters witnesses heard an explosion a few...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- All Syrian military jets are under Iran's control for transporting thousands of Shiite fighters inside the battlefields of Syria, sources said. The mounting number of Iran-backed militias has pushed regime to put all cargo and big jets under its control. Iran that lost lives...

The U.S. State Department said on Thursday that President Donald Trump's proposed budget for the 2018 fiscal year would not reduce U.S. aid to Israel but that assistance levels to other nations, including Egypt and Jordan, were still being evaluated. "Our assistance to Israel is ......

Warplanes struck a mosque in the rebel-held village of al-Jina, in northwest Syria, killing at least 42 people and wounding dozens, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor , said on Thursday. The jets struck the village, southwest of Atarib near Aleppo, as the...

A hospital in an opposition-held part of Damascus has seen its third kidney dialysis patient die since the beginning of the year, the hospital said Thursday. The Damascus Periphery Special Hospital in eastern Ghouta said Muhammad Amra died because medical supplies were unable to get...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday that "more than military spending" is needed to combat terrorism, after U.S. President Donald Trump proposed an extra $54 billion in military spending in 2018. "There is also a need to address the underlying drivers of...

 Sixteen lawyers were among the dozens killed in a suicide attack that struck the main judicial building in the capital Damascus, the head of Syria's Bar Association said Thursday. Meanwhile, blood stains and damage from the attack a day earlier were swiftly removed as people returned to...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two moderate rebel groups took four hilltops from the Islamic State in the eastern Qalamoun region in the Syrian desert, rebel commander said Thursday. Younes Salama, press officer of Jaish Asoud al-Sharqiya, said his rebel group backed by Ahmed al-Abdo forces had...

When the dialysis center in the Syrian rebel town of Douma ran out of supplies last month, three people died. "Soon after, a convoy with 250 dialysis sessions arrived, so the rest made it," said Abou Bassel, a surgeon in the local hospital. "The same thing happened last year."...

A top adviser to US President Donald Trump met Israeli settler leaders Thursday in an unusual move likely to raise fresh concerns over future prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US embassy confirmed the talks between Jason Greenblatt and leaders of the...

Finding a diplomatic solution with the United States and Russia on northern Syria's Manbij has become a necessity, and a military approach would only be considered if diplomacy failed, Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik said on Thursday. Speaking to broadcaster A Haber in an interview, Isik...

President Donald Trump's revised travel ban has suffered another federal court setback after a judge in Maryland rejected a revised measure that bans travel targeting six predominantly Muslim countries. Judge Theodore Chuang ruled Thursday in a case brought near the nation's capital by the...

The EU expects Turkey to honor a key migrant return accord which Ankara has threatened to ditch amid a bitter dispute with the bloc, a European Commission spokesman said Thursday. "We remain committed to the implementation of the EU-Turkey statement ... this is an engagement of mutual trust...

Real Madrid have returned to the top of La Liga but need to halt their recent trend of leaking goals in games if they want to stay there in Saturday's trip to Athletic Bilbao, who have the second best home record in the Spanish top flight. Zinedine Zidane's side have conceded 10 times in...

(Daily Mail)- Iraqi fighters came across the grave as they made further inroads in their battle to reclaim Mosul from ISIS. Pictures show the bodies of adults and children covered with blankets next to a shallow grave in a remote patch of land about 100ft from a road. They emerged as...

Boko Haram Islamists have raided a town in restive northeast Nigeria, looting food supplies and burning homes after overwhelming troops, residents told AFP Thursday. The attack late Wednesday happened in Magumeri, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri....

A Palestinian rights activist has praised a report this week by a Beirut-based U.N. agency that promotes development in Arab countries for concluding that Israel established an "apartheid regime." Omar Barghouti said Thursday that the report published this week by the United Nations Economic...

Iraqi authorities said Thursday that more than 150,000 people have fled fighting in and around west Mosul since security forces launched an operation to retake it from extremists last month. The International Organization for Migration released displacement figures Wednesday indicating that...