(Zaman al-Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learnt that the rights activist lawyer Tarek Shindib was subjected to a failed assassination attempt on Friday evening in Geneva where he is participating in the symposium, ‘Iran exports Terrorism to the World via Militias’ held by the Swiss Press club. Dr....

The Texas Rangers became the first American League team to clinch a playoff spot when they clinched the AL West Division with a 3-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Friday. Starter Cole Hamels breezed through seven scoreless innings while Carlos Beltran and Adrian Beltre each homered to...

More than 60 injured Kurdish peshmergas were sent to Turkey from Iraq to receive medical treatment in six hospitals in Ankara on Friday, a hospital source told Anadolu Agency. Speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, the source said 62 peshmergas were...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes killed at least 21rebel fighters in Hama province, as Russia and regime army wage the fiercest aerial campaign on opposition-held areas in northern Syria. The strikes hit the bastion of Fursan al-Haq Brigade, key unit in the newly-formed The New Idlib Army,...

Petrobras is selling 90 percent of its shares in a natural gas pipeline network for $5.2 billion to NTS, a group led by Canadian asset management giant Brookfield, the Brazilian state-owned energy giant said Friday. The 2,048-kilometer (1,273-mile) long Nova Transportadora do Sudeste (NTS)...

The Taliban controls roughly one-tenth of Afghanistan, the U.S. said Friday, 15 years after it invaded the country to oust the extremist group. The group controls a small percentage of Afghanistan’s population “but they contest another 20 to 25 percent,” Army Gen. John Nicholson told...

(NOW)- Free Syrian Army-affiliated rebel factions in northwestern Aleppo have announced the formation of a new group dubbed the Free Idlib Army. On Thursday, officers from the Northern Division, Mountain Hawks Brigade and Division 13 announced their “complete unity in the Free Idlib Army,”...

Residents speak of onslaught as Syrian army jets launch more than 150 air strikes, killing at least 90 people. Syrian regime warplanes  have launched more than 150 air strikes on eastern Aleppo in the last 24 hours, killing at least 90 people in the northern city and its countryside,...

Rescuers recovered at least 162 bodies from a migrant shipwreck off Egypt's coast by Friday evening, as the search for victims entered its third day. Survivors have said up to 450 migrants were on board the overcrowded fishing vessel that was heading to Italy from Egypt when it keeled over...

The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on Friday that the Kabul government's peace deal with warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was an "encouraging" step that would bring a long-time belligerent into reconciliation with the government. Army General John Nicholson told reporters at the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four civilians have been killed and 21 more wounded by regime's artillery shelling and air strikes on Rastan town in  northern Homs countryside after Friday Pray, local reporter. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said the heavy shelling on the northern countryside of Homs started a...

Goldman Sachs (GS.N) is cutting almost 30 percent of its 300 investment banking jobs in Asia outside Japan in response to a slowdown in activity in the region, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street bank is reducing the number of bankers working on mergers and...

The National Alliance for Reform, which includes candidates from Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood group, won 15 parliamentary seats in Tuesday polls, according to semi-final results announced late Thursday by Jordan’s official electoral commission. Another three seats, meanwhile, were won by...

The Swedish government is eyeing new ways to speed up deportations of failed asylum-seekers. Interior Minister Anders Ygeman and Justice and Migration Minister Morgan Johansson told reporters Thursday that police should be allowed to raid workplaces in their search for asylum-seekers whose...

A group of Syrians, who said they were forced to join PKK/PYD, fled the terrorist group and sought refuge in the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The Syrian group told Anadolu Agency on Thursday that they had to leave their villages near Kobani town, controlled by PYD, the Syrian wing of the PKK...

Three Thai policemen were killed and two wounded on Friday in a bomb and gun attack in the southern province of Yala where Muslim separatists have been waging a simmering insurgency against the state. The attack came just over a month after a series of bombs in three of Thailand's main...

(Marca)- It will always be a source of conjecture when a player of Lionel Messi's stature goes down with an injury, however the Argentine has suggested a few days rest is required to allow him to return even stronger. The sense of panic was palpable around the Camp Nou on Wednesday evening...

“We have no permission for go out. Now we are prison [sic],” a 17-year-old Pakistani migrant texted, along with a sad emoji face, locked inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Just under a hundred minors aged 12 to 17 find shelter in the rooms reserved for them. “We have beds,...

President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party won Sunday's parliamentary elections, having garnered 54.2 percent of the votes, the Central Election Commission announced Friday. The Communist Party came second with 13.3 percent, while the Liberal Democratic Party was third at 13.1, followed...

Two soldiers and 15 Boko Haram fighters were killed Thursday as the Nigeria-led multinational troops repelled an attack by militants in Abadam town of the country's northeastern Borno state, an army spokesman said Friday. "During the fierce battle, the troops killed 15 of the insurgents,...