Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday that OPEC needs to ensure it does not crimp oil supply too tightly and give the market a harmful shock, and said he was optimistic a production deal could be reached by November. Speaking at the World Energy Congress in Istanbul,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Supporters of Liwa al-Quds militia that fights alongside the Syrian regime are preparing for the 5th anniversary for their formation, which include celebration and relaunching a satellite broadcast for Qasyoun channel. Qasyoun channel broadcasts via Egyptian Nilesat, and it...

Syrian government forces kept up their blistering assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo after a divided UN Security Council failed to agree on a truce to save the war-battered city. Regime forces and their allies were advancing street by street in the eastern sector, which has been out of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes between the Islamic State and People’s protection Units (YPG), the military arm of the Democratic Union Party Sunday in the city of Shadadi in Hasaka countryside , while the masked group continued raiding and arresting civilians. Activist Ahmed al-Ali reported to Zaman...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Monday that President Francois Hollande will take into account the situation in Syria's Aleppo when deciding whether to see his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin when he visits Paris on Oct. 19 Ayrault also told France Inter radio that he...

A 22-year-old Syrian suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany has been arrested, police said Monday. Jaber al-Bakr was captured in the eastern city of Leipzig on Sunday night, Saxony state police said on Twitter. Police launched a massive manhunt Saturday after finding several...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A commander in Nour al-Din al-Zenki movement, key unit in the Free Syrian Army, has denied the surfaced news about receiving anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, accusing the Assad regime and allies of publishing such rumors to justify barbarian war on Aleppo and other...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-The Free Syrian Army participating in Turkey-led Euphrates Shield Operation have controlled three villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo province after heavy clashes with the Islamic State, advancing to almost 8 km, 9 miles, away from the strategic town of Dabiq,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes backed by Russian jets have bombed liberated areas in Hama and Idlib provinces, hours after Jund al-Aqsa group merged with Fateh al-Sham Front, activists said on Sunday.  Military source confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl that regime forces and...

Hurricane Matthew left 15 dead in the U.S. and hundreds more in the Caribbean before it moved off the east coast Sunday as a post-tropical cyclone. Matthew formed near the Windward Islands on Sept. 28 moving north to become a hurricane once it arrived in the eastern Caribbean, reaching...

Thousands of Yemenis, many of them armed, gathered at the United Nations headquarters in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday calling for an international investigation into an air strike on a wake this weekend that was widely blamed on Saudi-led forces. The attack - that killed at least 140...

A powerful Syrian Islamist insurgent group on Sunday pledged allegiance to former al Qaeda branch Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, a statement circulated by rebel officials and reported by a monitoring group said. The Jund al-Aqsa group said it was trying to settle differences with Ahrar al-Sham, with...

Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk on Sunday said the company would not need to raise equity or corporate debt in the fourth quarter for its planned acquisition of SolarCity Corp (SCTY.O), contradicting a filing the company made with regulators last week. Asked on Twitter...

Malaysian police have announced the arrest of 16 people, including one North African national, on suspicion of links to Daesh. Inspector General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said in a statement Sunday that the 16 individuals -- aged between 20 and 38 years old -- were detained in a six secret...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo Free Police opened lately several traffic centers to organize traffic and spread discipline and driving concepts to decrease traffic accidents and its dangers. The centers which were launched last March are distributed between Aleppo city, Dar Izzet, al-Atarib, Orm...

Morocco’s ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) has won the largest share of seats in the parliamentary elections on Saturday, securing 125 seats in the House of Representatives, according to the National Statistics Committee. In a statement released on Sunday, the committee said that...

An air strike on a funeral wake, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that has long been criticized for civilian losses. The White House announced an immediate review of Washington's support for the 18-month-old...

Matthew was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Sunday as it struck North Carolina and Virginia with a diminished yet still potent punch, causing flooding and widespread power outages along the U.S. Atlantic coast after killing hundreds in Haiti. The most powerful Atlantic storm since...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he had detected increasing U.S. hostility towards Moscow and complained about what he said was a series of aggressive U.S. steps that threatened Russia's national security. In an interview with Russian state TV likely to worsen already...

Turkish troops in northern Iraq came under attack from Daesh on Sunday, a security official in the area said. There were no injuries in the attack at Gedu base, near Daesh-held Mosul, the Turkish official said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media. Troops...