(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Aleppo province have handed over several villages to the Syrian regime due to a Russian-brokered deal reached Thursday, activists and regime media said. Pro-government media outlets said the deal will allow people of...

President Donald Trump's meeting with Japan's prime minister offers a chance to shore up a long-standing security alliance and repair economic ties shaken by U.S. withdrawal from a Pacific trade pact. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is expected to propose more Japanese investment in the U.S.,...

 Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi asked U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call to remove his country from a contentious travel ban list, a statement said Friday. Iraq is one of seven Muslim-majority countries whose citizens are barred from entering the United States for 90 days...

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied across Iran on Friday to swear allegiance to the clerical establishment following U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that he had put the Islamic Republic "on notice", state TV reported. Carrying "Death to America" banners and effigies of Trump,...

The Red Cross was desperately searching for two employees who went missing after their convoy came under insurgent fire in northern Afghanistan, leaving six other workers dead, the charity said Friday. The workers were ambushed in northern Jowzjan province Wednesday while they were en route...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels took three hilltops from regime forces in the coastal Latakia province, killing at least 20 troops, activists said on Friday. The First Coastal Division, key Free Syrian Army unit, launched attack on regime bastions in Jabal al-Akrad late on Thursday, taking the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The wave of severe cold recently hit Syria that started about two weeks ago, has increased the incidence of respiratory infections and diseases, and children were the most affected. In the Northern countryside of Homs a soaring increase in the number of children suffer of...

Strugglers Ingolstadt will take inspiration from the New England Patriot's stunning Super Bowl fightback when they host Bayern Munich Saturday with the Bundesliga leaders expecting a 'grubby' Bavarian derby. Bayern host Arsenal at the Allianz Arena next Wednesday, but before the Champions...

Seven out of 10 French voters want conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon to step down, an opinion poll by Odoxa for France Info radio said Friday, as a scandal over alleged "fake work" for his wife continued to weigh on his campaign. Fillon has apologized to the French people...

Twelve Indonesians, including three children, have been killed on the holiday island of Bali after landslides triggered by heavy rains engulfed several villages, an official said Friday. Several houses were also buried and badly damaged in the incident, which took place overnight from...

Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray on Thursday rejected a CBS news report that he had made changes to U.S. President Donald Trump's speech announcing an executive order for the construction of a border wall with Mexico. "I never thought I would use this phrase, but today I'm doing it:...

Her name is Marina Jaber but to many she is "the girl on the bike", a young Baghdad artist inspiring Iraqi women to exercise their rights one pedal at a time. In Iraq's conservative society, the young woman cuts an unusual figure when she rides her red bicycle in the streets of the capital,...

U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to honor the longstanding "One China" policy during a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, taking steps to improve ties after angering Beijing by talking to the leader of Taiwan. Trump further unnerved Beijing over the self-ruled island in December...

At least one person was killed on Thursday when Syrian regime forces carried out an attack using chlorine gas in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta region, according to a local source. The attack targeted Eastern Ghouta’s opposition-held town of Arbin, Seraj Mohamed, a pro-opposition civil defense...

(The Guardian)- The focus of the plight of the Syrian people has shifted away from the apex of horror that was the suffering caused by the siege of eastern Aleppo. Now we must not let the lives of millions of people in desperate need across Syria slip from the world’s conscience. In 2016 we...

Three fugitives were killed Thursday as they tried to flee by boat from Bahrain to Iran following a prison break, the interior ministry said. Those killed were prisoners who escaped in a Jan. 1 prison break or their accomplices, it said. Seven other people were arrested in connection...

At a training course in northern Iraq, people displaced by the wars in Mosul and neighboring Syria are learning how to code. Some are already being sought by global companies even though they live in sprawling, dusty camps near Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, not far from Islamic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In a provocative move by the Syrian regime accompanied with the thirty-fifth anniversary of Hama massacre, a huge statue for Hafez al-Assad to be inaugurated this week at the entrance of once war-torn city. The statute was removed at the early days of the Syrian conflict that...

 Russian air strikes accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers during an operation against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, the Turkish military said, highlighting the risk of unintended clashes between the numerous outside powers in a complex war. "During an operation by a Russia...

A Swedish court Thursday found a TV journalist guilty of human trafficking for helping a Syrian boy migrate to the country and gave him a suspended sentence. In the spring of 2014, Fredrik Onnevall was filming a documentary about the response of European nationalist parties to the migration...