Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz said on Sunday that the company planned to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in 75 countries, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees from certain countries. Trump on Friday put a...

 At least five people were killed and several people wounded after gunmen opened fire at a mosque in Quebec City, media reported. A Quebec police spokesman confirmed that there were people killed, but did not say how many. Two suspects in the shooting were arrested, he said....

Saudi Arabia's King Salman, in a phone call on Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump, agreed to support safe zones in Syria and Yemen, a White House statement said. Trump, during his presidential campaign last year, had called for Gulf states to pay for establishing safe zones to protect...

Despite the chaos at airports around the world on Saturday, some travelers from the affected countries, desperate to get back to their families, still tested their luck on Sunday, hoping that the restrictions had somehow eased. One of them, Radwan Ziadeh, a Syrian academic and human...

(Wall Street Journal)- President Donald Trump’s inclusion of Iraq in the temporary ban on foreign nationals entering the U.S. has alarmed American diplomats who warn it risks upending delicate military, political and business ties at a time when Islamic State is on the cusp of defeat in the...

The Arab League expressed deep concern on Sunday over U.S. President Donald Trump's order to halt arrivals of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries, saying the restrictions were unjustified. The 22-member Arab League includes several countries whose citizens are affected by...

Mixed messages from Washington have left Syrian Christians confused about the effect of U.S. restrictions on refugees and travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, with some seeing hope fading away. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that put a four-month...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS killed 13 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the eastern countryside of central Homs province, activists said Sunday. The Islamic State'e militants waged an attack on regime forces and allied militias north of T4 military airport, killing brigadier general and...

 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday extended his deadly drug war until the last day of his term in 2022, but conceded the police force acting as his frontline troops was "corrupt to the core". Thousands of people have died in the crackdown that began when Duterte took office...

Dozens of people were stopped from flying to the United States from Istanbul Ataturk Airport on Sunday, Turkish airport officials said, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries. In his most sweeping action since taking...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  A Lebanese hospital on Sunday refused to hand over a body of Syrian refugee man died of cancer to his wife, saying $3500 must be paid to free the 'captive body', activists said. Ein Wazin hospital in the mountainous Chouf district refused to hand over the body of...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- Associated Press published a report on July 13, 2016 about initiatives in Israel to open the cases for thousands of disappeared children whose Jewish families migrated from Arabic states in the 1950s to the occupation state. There were claims at...

One soldier was martyred Sunday during clashes with Daesh terrorist organization during Operation Euphrates Shield near the town of Al-Ghuz in northern Syria, according to the Turkish military. The Turkish General Staff said in a written statement that the soldier was martyred around 10 a.m....

The United Arab Emirates will offer Russian visitors visas on arrival in the country in a bid to boost tourism and trade, state news agency WAM reported on Sunday. Prime Minister and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum has approved a cabinet decree recommending Russians be...

Roger Federer has won his 18th Grand Slam title and put some extra distance on the all-time list between himself and Rafael Nadal, the man he beat 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 in a vintage Australian Open final on Sunday. It was the 35-year-old Federer's fifth Australian title, his first at a...

Syrian government forces have recaptured all towns and villages in the Wadi Barada valley near Damascus, the Syrian military said on Sunday, in another blow to rebels who have fought for years to unseat President Bashar al-Assad. "Units of our armed forces, together with ... allied forces...

 Iran summoned Switzerland's ambassador, who represents Washington's interests in Tehran, to protest President Donald Trump's visa ban on Iranians, the foreign ministry said. Swiss ambassador Giulio Haas was "handed a letter of protest on the recent executive order by the US President...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called for US President Donald Trump to make good on his campaign pledge to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Departing from a long-standing US position, Trump promised he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Commanders from Ahrar al-Sham Movement joined the Haya’t Tahrir al-Sham (Sham Liberation Committee) established on 28 January. The Ahrar commanders announced their resignation from the Ahrar al-Sham Movement before joining Tahrir al-Sham.  Ahrar al-Sham’s former General...

Germany made mistakes with an open-door policy that saw more than a million migrants enter Germany over the past two years, Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble acknowledged on Sunday, but he said Berlin was trying to learn from those missteps. "We have tried to improve what got away from us...