Turkey will allow the family of a Syrian air force pilot whose warplane crashed on Turkish territory to visit him at the hospital where he is being treated, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told A Haber broadcaster on Monday. Turkey has been one of the leading critics of Syrian President...

The European Union will host a conference on the post-conflict future of Syria with the United Nations in Brussels on April 5, foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said. The conference, a follow-up to last year's London meeting, "will assess regional conditions and the conditions on which...

At least 22 Shiite Huthi rebels were killed Monday in an airstrike by pro-government Arab coalition warplanes as well as clashes in western Yemen, officials said. The strike on a military base in the city of Bajil, northeast of provincial capital Hodeida on the Red Sea, killed 16 rebels,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The negotiation committee of al-Waer neighborhood said meeting with Russian was fruitless as regime extends its aerial campaign on the last-rebel stronghold in central Homs city, local reporter said Monday.  The key ally of Bashar al-Assad and the de facto ruler of...

 Syrian regime forces have taken over positions from a U.S.-backed militia in the northern city of Manbij on part of a frontline with Turkish-backed rebel forces, in line with a deal brokered by Russia, the militia's spokesman said on Monday. "The handover has taken place..," Sharfan...

Google said Monday it was working to fix a search algorithm glitch that produced "inappropriate and misleading" results from its search engine and connected speaker. The internet giant reacted after a blog post highlighted unsubstantiated search results indicating former president Barack...

Israeli police grilled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his official Jerusalem home on Monday in a long-running investigation into corruption suspicions, local media said. "The fourth round of questioning of PM Netanyahu has begun at his residence," Israel Hayom daily, considered close...

Turkey is infringing the judicial independence of a United Nations war crimes tribunal by holding one of its judges in detention despite an order to release him, the court ruled Monday, referring the matter to the U.N. Security Council. The U.N. court had earlier ordered Ankara to release...

ISIS has imposed an "Afghan-style" dress code on men in its Syrian stronghold Raqqa to help its fighters blend into the civilian population, a monitor and activists said Monday. "For more than two weeks, Afghan-style clothing ... has been imposed by Daesh," said Abu Mohamed, an activist with...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday that the United States has warned that annexing the West Bank would lead to an "immediate crisis" with President Donald Trump's administration. Lieberman sought to push back against those in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...

China's third most powerful leader said on Monday that Beijing had the right to "step in" to Hong Kong's leadership contest, according to local politicians who met him, in remarks fueling fears of meddling from Communist Party leaders. The comments by Zhang Dejiang, the head of China's...

Syrian militias backed by the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS cut the road between the extremist-held city of Raqqa and Deir al-Zor province in Syria on Monday, a Kurdish military source and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The advance by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime airstrikes killed two people and wounded dozen in the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in central Homs province, local activists said Monday. The regime warplanes conducted 12 raids early Monday as death toll topped to 49 in a month of major offensive on the...

Key members of Congress say they will honor President Donald Trump's request to investigate his unsubstantiated claim that Barack Obama overstepped his authority as president and had Trump's telephones tapped during the election campaign. A U.S. official said the FBI has asked the Justice...

India's national airline claimed Monday to have set a new record with the first round-the-world flight staffed entirely by women. Ai India said its Boeing 777 traveled from Delhi to San Francisco and back again with an all-female crew last week, the first time such a flight has...

Nuclear-armed North Korea launched four ballistic missiles on Monday in another challenge to President Donald Trump, with three landing provocatively close to America's ally Japan. Seoul and Washington began annual joint military exercises last week that always infuriate Pyongyang, with the...

A Syrian city that is a stated target of a Turkish-backed operation in the north of the country Syria is under the protection of a local, Kurdish-allied militia and the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, the local militia said. The Manbij Military Council says it has controlled the city of...

Five Pakistani soldiers and 10 militants were killed in a coordinated overnight raid at several border posts on the frontier with Afghanistan, the military said Monday. The fighting took place in Mohmand, one of Pakistan's so-called tribal districts that form a buffer zone between the two...

President Donald Trump is preparing to sign a revised executive order temporarily barring the entry of people from certain Muslim-majority countries and halting the nation's refugee program. A White House official says plans to roll out the order are on track for Monday. The official...

U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Monday captured Mosul's al-Hurriya bridge, which leads to the ISIS-held old city center from the south, a military media officer told Reuters. The al-Hurriya bridge is the second to be secured by the Iraqi forces in the city, after securing one located further...