(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels fighting regime forces in southern Daraa city have demanded people to avoid clashes areas in al-Manshiya neighborhood as death toll tops to 19 civilians, including 7 children and 5 women. The Free Syrian Army fighters said on Wednesday at least 30 regime troops...

President Donald Trump will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Wednesday, their first meeting since the inauguration and one that promises to shape the contours of Middle East policy for the years ahead. On the agenda are some of the region's most volatile...

Almost six years into a war that has devastated their country, Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon say they expect nothing of peace talks this month but still dream of going home. "I don't think anything will come of the talks" this week in Kazakhstan and the next in Switzerland, says...

U.S. President Donald Trump supports the goal of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, even if it does not involve the two-state solution, a senior White House official said on Tuesday. Speaking a day before Trump holds a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

Russia has clandestinely deployed a new intermediate-range cruise missile in violation of a treaty that helped end the decades-long Cold War, according to a report published on Tuesday. Citing anonymous administration officials, the New York Times said that Moscow now has two battalions of...

"Reciprocity" has become the new buzzword in the U.S. business community in China, with some industry leaders saying they would welcome a tougher approach from the Trump administration in opening up the markets of the world's second-largest economy. It's a striking shift within the American...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unidentified jets raided locations of Kurdish PYD militia and supporting militias in surrounding of al-Jawadiye town in Hasaka countryside whereas Qamishli witnessed security tensions as regime militia member was killed in the city, local sources reported. Activist Malaz...

So far, the most meaningful role played by President Trump in the miserable conflict in Syria has been his relentless demonization of Syrian refugees. But the war still smolders, and the White House will, sooner or later, have to reckon with its complexity. It may also need to confront...

Twice a month, beautician Chnoor Khezri takes her equipment to a camp near Mosul and gives displaced Iraqi women who have lost everything a proper pampering and some fresh confidence. In a small room inside the camp, the young Iranian Kurd takes out her brushes and scissors and puts blue wax...

Wearing funky beads, Laith Abbas comes across as just another Iraqi teenager trying to look cool, until he describes how he clutched an AK-47 assault rifle at checkpoints along with other ISIS militants who terrorized Mosul. Abbas is one of 54 teenagers Kurdish authorities are trying to...

Israel has temporarily withdrawn its ambassador to Egypt amid ongoing security concerns, the country's intelligence service confirmed Tuesday. "Due to security considerations the return of the foreign ministry embassy staff to Cairo has been restricted," the Shin Bet security agency said....

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Saudi Arabia's top leadership Tuesday during a visit to further strengthen ties as part of a Gulf tour ahead of Syria peace talks. King Salman hosted a luncheon banquet for Erdogan, who arrived in Riyadh late Monday, the official Saudi Press Agency...

Kazakhstan said Tuesday that a new round of Astana talks on the Syria conflict led by Russia, Turkey and Iran will take place behind closed doors, as the make-up of any rebel delegation remained unclear. The "closed format" negotiations are set to start Wednesday in the Kazakh capital some...

Austrian prosecutors Tuesday ruled out reopening a probe into the death of a prominent Kazakh government opponent whose apparent jail suicide in Vienna had been called into question by a German expert. Rakhat Aliyev, the former son-of-law of Kazakhstan's president, was found hanged in his...

France said Tuesday the United Nations Security Council had to respond over the use of chemical weapons in Syria with a resolution that would punish those responsible for repeated attacks. Syrian government forces used chemical weapons in opposition-controlled parts of Aleppo during battles...

Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Several Tunisian youth have been fighting along with the Syrian regime under the banner the Arab National Guards, the militia official said. Basil Kharat, the political responsible of the “Arab National Guards” confessed that Tunisian young men...

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg Tuesday said the top priority for the transatlantic alliance is to increase defense spending, as demanded by U.S. President Donald Trump. "Regardless of language, the most important thing is that we increase defense spending and that is exactly what we are doing,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Teaching has been suspended in the schools of southern Daraa city as regime warplanes randomly pound the city, a local governing council said Tuesday. The statement of the Free Daraa Council said the school will be temporarily shut until Thursday unless the aerial bombing...

The Trump administration on Monday slapped sanctions on Venezuela’s new vice president, Tareck El Aissami, accusing him of being an international drug kingpin. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that El Aissami, who was named vice president just last...

Turkey-backed Syrian rebels and President Bashar Assad's forces have created a security corridor to avoid clashes in the battle to capture the flashpoint town of Al-Bab from ISIS extremists, a newspaper reported Tuesday. If confirmed, it would mark a rare case of contact in the conflict...