Israeli forces have killed dozens of Arab captives, who were surrendered during a war in the first years of Israel’s existence, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.  According to a testimony obtained by the newspaper, the prisoners were held in a courtyard where they were questioned about...

Over the past five years, Jordan has become one of the biggest recipients of refugees fleeing its war-torn neighbor, Syria. Almost 700,000 Syrians have been registered as refugees in the country, which has a population of just 6.5 million. Those are just the ones who have registered; Jordanian...

Barcelona coach Luis Enrique said they will have last week's surprise home defeat to Alaves at the forefront of their minds when they visit La Liga newcomers Leganes on Saturday. Madrid outfit Leganes are playing their first season in Spain's top flight after securing promotion, but have...

Soldiers from Niger and Chad have killed 38 Boko Haram fighters during operations that followed attacks by the Nigerian Islamist group on two border towns in southeastern Niger earlier this week, Niger's army said on Saturday. Two soldiers from the bilateral force were lightly wounded in the...

French investigators who found trace levels of the explosive material TNT on debris of an EgyptAir plane that crashed in May were prevented from further examining it, Le Figaro reported on Friday, a charge Egyptian officials denied. The origin of the traces remains unclear and Egyptian...

New York (AFP) - Pulitzer-winning US playwright Edward Albee, author of such masterpieces as "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" died at age 88, his personal assistant said in a statement. Albee died at his home in Montauk, New York after a short illness, according to his longtime personal...

Syria's ceasefire "will not hold out", a senior rebel official in Aleppo warned on Saturday, as air strikes and shelling continued in some places and promised aid deliveries failed to come through. The ceasefire is the result of an agreement between Russia, which backs Syrian President...

Three American flags were lowered on top of buildings under the control of the PYD/PKK terrorist group in Tal Abyad town in Syria’s northern city of Raqqah on Saturday, a local source in the region told Anadolu Agency. The U.S. flags had emerged at the group’s base in the area on Friday,...

At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in a spate of bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Friday.  A military patrol struck a roadside bomb in al-Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and injuring four others, police officer Dham al-Mahmud told Anadolu...

South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd, whose collapse has disrupted global trade, is considering a restructuring plan to sell more than half its ships, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. However, liquidation remained the most likely outcome for...

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed and wounded a soldier in the West Bank on Saturday, the military said, as a flare-up of a nearly year-old wave of Palestinian street attacks entered a second day. The soldier was taken to hospital for treatment, the military said. With...

(Marca) - Luis Enrique decided to give Sergio Busquets rest this weekend against newly promoted Leganes, given the more important midweek match against Atletico Madrid coming up. Lucas Digne, Aleix Vidal and Jordi Masip were the other three players not to make Saturday's squad....

The State Department on Friday refused to address the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons that were disclosed in emails by former Secretary of State Colin Powell. In a message regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress last year, Powell wrote that Iran...

The spotlight will be on Syria when world leaders gather at the United Nations next week as the United States and Russia try to shore up a fragile truce deal and President Barack Obama pushes for a boost in global refugee aid. Some 135 heads of state and government and dozens of ministers...

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it had designated the leader of a group of French foreign fighters in Syria and a senior Hamas official as specially designated global terrorists, a move that freezes their U.S. assets. The State Department described the first man, Omar Diaby, as the...

The United States and Russia said on Friday they wanted to extend the four-day-old ceasefire in Syria they have co-sponsored, although the agreement looked increasingly shaky, undermined by increasing violence and a failure to deliver aid. The second attempt this year by the Cold War-era...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian writers, artists, and journalists condemned the American-Russian intervention in their country in tandem with the ceasefire agreed on by both sides on Syrian territory which began on the eve of the first day of Eid al-Adha.  They introduced themselves as...

One of the “most senior leaders” Daesh leaders was killed earlier this month in Syria, the U.S. said Friday. “On Sept. 7, coalition forces conducted a precision strike near Raqqah, Syria, that targeted and killed ‘Dr. Wa'il’, also known as Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad,” Pentagon...

Translated by Yusra  Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two members the military wing of Democratic Union Party (PYD) were killed this Friday by an explosive device targeted their car near the city of Shadadi southern of Hasaka, while PYD continued bulldozing Arabs’ houses in the region. The party...

The Associated Press, Vice Media and Gannett filed a lawsuit Friday against the FBI to force it to reveal the methods it used to breach an iPhone that belonged to an alleged U.S. terror suspect. The news organizations claim the FBI does not have a right to conceal its methods about how it...