Saudi Arabia is committed to stabilizing the global oil market, the energy ministry of the world's biggest oil exporter said on Tuesday, as prices fell below $48 a barrel. OPEC and non-OPEC countries last year pledged to reduce output by around 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) as part of a...

Civilians from Syria’s northern city of Aleppo have called for bringing Bashar al-Assad to justice for using chemical weapons against opponents in the war-torn country. Last month, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the Assad regime had carried out "coordinated chemical...

Paris's overworked rat-catchers staged a one-day strike Tuesday, protesting outside city hall to demand reinforcements and bonuses two months after carrying out a massive cull in the French capital. Laying a dead rat under a giant banner reading "The staff are angry", some 50 workers –...

President Donald Trump met with Saudi Arabia's Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Tuesday for a discussion that was likely to touch on investment opportunities in the kingdom and efforts to stop the war in Syria. Trump, who took office in January, and Prince...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 81 regime officers and soldiers from Latakia province have been killed in the last two weeks, local activist said. The mourning posters have been sweeping the roads, streets and pro-regime social media as Syrians celebrate the sixth anniversary of the Syrian...

Brazil's leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva denied in court Tuesday that he tried to obstruct a giant corruption probe shaking Brazilian politics. Lula told a court in the capital Brasilia that he hadn't participated in an alleged scheme to pay Nestor Cervero, the ex-director...

The European Union's top diplomat has unveiled a plan to help war-torn Syria seal a peaceful end to fighting, improve stability and rebuild once a real political transition is happening. Foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Tuesday that "there is much the European Union is ready to...

Turkey may slap the Netherlands with economic sanctions, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Tuesday, a day after Ankara launched a series of high-level diplomatic sanctions against the Dutch in a deepening row. Kurtulmus made the...

President Vladimir Putin has approved a decree allowing some troops from Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia to be incorporated into the Russian army, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday. Russia recognised South Ossetia as an independent state in 2008 after fighting a short war...

Water has reached a pumping station inside Aleppo and will "soon" go out to residential districts in the city, Syrian state media said on Tuesday. Aleppo's main water supply has been cut off for nearly two months, and residents have largely relied on ground wells or water bought from...

Germany's next government must set exact targets for cutting CO2 emissions soon after September's national election to provide clarity for local governments and companies to plan, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday. Merkel said the goal of reducing emissions by 80-95 percent by 2050 from...

Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they recaptured Mosul's train station, once one of the country's main rail hubs and the latest in a series of key sites retaken from extremists. The forces launched a major push last month to oust ISIS from west Mosul, taking back a series of neighborhoods as...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday said a 'yes' vote in the referendum next month on expanding his powers was the "best answer to Turkey's enemies", in a spiraling spat with the Netherlands and the European Union. "Our nation on April 16 at the ballot box... will give the best...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Some Syrians see that the actor Jamal Suleiman is an opposition figure playing a political role while others see him as an opposition figure playing a national role. Zaman al-Wasl met with Suleiman for a candid interview which placed Syria as the eye of...

 A third round of Russian-backed talks on the Syrian war opened in the Kazakh capital Astana Tuesday without armed rebel groups, leaving little hope for a breakthrough in ending the six-year conflict. The talks, sponsored by government allies Russia and Iran and rebel-backer Turkey,...

Syria's air force deliberately bombed water sources in December, a war crime that cut off water for 5.5 million people in and around the capital Damascus, the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said Tuesday. The commission said it had found no evidence of...

Iraq's interior ministry is holding over 1,200 men and boys suspected of ties to extremists in "horrendous conditions" without charge at facilities south of Mosul, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Iraqi forces are fighting to retake second city Mosul from ISIS, recapturing its east before...

The top U.N. human rights official called Tuesday for the release of tens of thousands of detainees held in Syria's prisons and said that bringing perpetrators of crimes including torture to court was vital for reaching a lasting peace. "Today in a sense the entire country has become a...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will make a major statement to parliament Tuesday, just hours after MPs enabled her to start the withdrawal process from the European Union. After weeks of wrangling, lawmakers Monday finally granted May the right to trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon...

U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Jason Greenblatt and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed ways to reach peace with the Palestinians as well as settlement construction, a statement said Tuesday. The meeting, held in Netanyahu's Jerusalem office late Monday, lasted...