The U.S. must follow through on a firm stance against Israeli settlements, the Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour told Anadolu Agency. Praising a "strong reaction" from the Barack Obama administration on renewed "illegal" settlement efforts by the Jewish state, Mansour said Friday:...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday drove the first car through Istanbul’s new Eurasia Tunnel under the Marmara Sea. The president was the driver. His passengers were Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and Ahmet Arslan, transport and communications minister. The car departed from Harem on...

American actress Lindsay Lohan visited a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep’s Nizip district on Saturday. Lohan visited the refugee camp along with Gaziantep mayor Fatma Sahin, Nizip sub-governor Harun Sarifakiogullari. “European countries and the United...

(Zaman al-Wasl) The Danish parliamentarian Naser Khader said in a special conversation with Zaman al-Wasl that the tragic humanitarian situation which Syria, and Aleppo in particular, are living is something that cannot be ignored. The situation is the main motive for his continuous solidarity...

Elders in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand province accused the Kabul government and its international backers on Saturday of failing to live up to promises of protection as Taliban militants claim more territory and threaten the provincial capital. Despite months of reorganization, a new...

A review by the Philippines of joint military drills with the United States could see exercises continue or scaled back, a military spokesman said on Saturday, following more rhetoric from the president about scrapping them completely. An assessment would be conducted among the defense top...

A new Egyptian militant group, the Hasam Movement, on Saturday claimed responsibility for the killing of a policeman in the country's north. Gunmen shot Gamal al-Deeb, a policeman working with the Homeland Security agency, eight times outside his home in the northern Beheira province shortly...

Before war broke out they were bakers, decorators or students. Now Syria's volunteer rescuers known as the White Helmets risk their lives trying to pull victims from the rubble. Footage of the daring, often heart-rending rescues carried out by the group's nearly 3,000 volunteers has...

The Middle East can return to being a “land of culture, civilization, peace and prosperity” through strong leadership, consensus and a “new social imagination”, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Saturday. In his regular column for the English-language Daily Sabah newspaper, Kalin...

An Iraqi army division has been deployed to the Al-Ratba district near the Syrian border in the western Anbar province to fight the Daesh terrorist group, Iraq’s Defense Ministry announced Friday evening. Iraqi state television broadcast footage showing hundreds of military vehicles and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Shiite militias on Saturday regained control of several villages northeast of Hama city, taking advantage of the infighting between Syrian resistance factions in Idlib’s southern countryside, field sources said Regime warplane also launched...

Police on Saturday launched a huge manhunt in the east German town of Chemnitz for a suspect believed to have been planning a bomb attack. Residents were told to stay in their homes during the operation which followed a tip-off from domestic intelligence. An explosion had been heard in the...

Syrian government forces recaptured territory from insurgents in several western areas on Saturday as the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote on rival French and Russian draft resolutions urging an immediate ceasefire. President Bashar al-Assad's forces, backed by Russian air power and...

Egypt's foreign ministry sharply criticized the U.S. Embassy in Cairo for advising citizens to avoid large gatherings in the capital until Sunday, calling the move "unjustifiable". The embassy's message warned against being in public spaces, near diplomatic missions, government buildings,...

Britain's government needs to immediately rule out leaving the European Union without securing preferential access to the bloc's single market, or investment will suffer, the head of a leading business organization said on Saturday. Financial markets have already reacted to signs Britain...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump scrambled to prevent his campaign from falling apart early on Saturday with a hastily prepared video statement expressing regret for making lewd comments about women. Trump declared himself a changed man, but raised the infidelities of former...

Bangladeshi forces Saturday killed eleven suspected Islamist extremists including the new leader of a banned group behind a massacre at a Dhaka cafe this year, a minister said. "Eleven extremists were killed. They are all members of the new JMB (Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh)," Home...

Morocco's moderate Islamists have won parliamentary elections, beating a rival party critics say is too close to the royal palace in a tight race that will complicate negotiations to form a coalition government. The government has only limited powers, but Friday's ballot for the House of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl that a regime air force battalion specialized in building airports in cooperation with civilian companies began work to restore the landing field and runways in T-4 military airbase east of Damascus. The restoration work to the...

Islamic State militants captured several villages from Syrian rebels in a counter-attack near the Turkish border that forced the foreign-backed insurgents to retreat, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The rebels, whom Turkey has supported with tanks and air strikes, had been...