Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremlin's potential to help broker a political settlement to the crisis as he tried to show the West Russia has become a major player in the Middle East. Assad flew to Moscow on...

Partly burned and still abandoned, the high-walled villas that once housed the U.S. consulate compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi now sit on a frontline of a nation at war with itself. Three years after militants killed U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other...

Twenty-four people face trial in Bahrain for trying to set up a branch of the Islamic State militant group and promoting the overthrow of the Gulf Arab state's monarchy, the public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday. Bahrain was swept by protests during the 2011 "Arab Spring"...

A political alliance loyal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has scooped all 60 list seats up for grabs in the first round of a parliamentary election in which opposition parties were all but absent, official results showed on Wednesday. The initial round of voting for...

President Tayyip Erdogan's tactics for Turkey's second general election in five months might have changed, but the outcome looks likely to be the same: for the first time in its history, his ruling AK Party may have to share power. Opinion polls suggest the Islamist-rooted AKP,...

Fourteen civilians were killed in one of Yemen's largest cities on Wednesday when shells fired by Houthi fighters and their allies, forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, fell on their neighborhoods, medical sources said. The sources said the shells also wounded...

The White House on Wednesday slammed Russia for its "red carpet" treatment of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who made a rare visit to Moscow to see President Vladimir Putin. "We view the red carpet welcome for Assad, who has used chemical weapons against his own people, at odds with the...

Two Syrian refugees killed and three wounded near the Lebanese border town of Arsal when a Lebanese helicopter attacked their shelter, medical source told Zaman al Wasl on Wednesday. Activists have slammed the complicity of Red Cross with Lebanese Army, saying the international organization has...

The illustrious striker of ِAl Ahli Saudi Sport Club is wanted to Syrian intelligence according to the leaked Intelligence archive obtained by Zaman al-Wasl. Omar al-Soma, 26, the Syrian football player who is currently playing for Al Ahli in the Saudi Professional League is facing the danger...

 Iran has acknowledged the deaths of at least 400 militia fighters in Syria, according to information posted on the country’s official news agency. The IRNA agency didn’t issue a report on the latest casualty figure, but noted in a photo caption that the country has held 400 funerals for...

The head of Syria's domestic opposition, the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change, told Zaman al Wasl that he opposed Russian air strikes targeting moderate Free Syrian Army since it accepts a political solution. Hassan Abdel Azim said hitting FSA's strongholds will not drive us to...

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday approved the Iranian government's nuclear deal with world powers but said Tehran should not yield core elements of its nuclear program until allegations of past military dimensions had been settled. In a letter to President...

Turnout was so low in the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections, that satirist Bassem Youssef derided it as an ingenious strategy to show the world Egypt had rid itself of its notorious overcrowding. Empty polling stations highlight disillusionment with Egypt's chaotic...

Iker Casillas reached another landmark in his career in on Tuesday night. The Porto keeper overtook Edwin van der Sar's total of Champions League clean sheets in his side's victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv. The Spain captain has completed 51 full matches in Europe's elite club competition without...

Kurdish-led authorities in northern Syria have declared a new province including a town on the border with Turkey captured from Islamic State in June, a Kurdish official said on Wednesday, formalizing Kurdish control over the border area, Reuters reported The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia...

Eight rebel groups operating in northern rural Homs have formed a coordination unit to unified military efforts to halt advances of regime troops and their allies, according to statement issued Wednesday. Rebels who seek more coordination on the battle ground have been facing a major aerial...

Canada's Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau, who came from behind to trounce his Conservative rivals and snatch a majority mandate, now has to deliver on pledges from tackling climate change to legalizing marijuana. Trudeau, who had also promised to withdraw Canada from combat in...

The U.S. and Russia signed an agreement Tuesday to deconflict air operations above Syrian airspace, according to the Pentagon. The memorandum of understanding is the result of three separate conversations between military officials from both countries but a U.S. military spokesman made it...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew to Moscow on Tuesday evening to personally thank Russia's Vladimir Putin for his military support, in a surprise visit that underlined how Russia has become a major player in the Middle East. It was Assad's first foreign trip since the outbreak of...

The U.S. has replaced six F-16s positioned at an airbase in southern Turkey with a dozen ground bombers, a Pentagon official told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. "On Oct. 20, airmen and 12 A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from the 75th fighter squadron from Moody AFB, Georgia, arrived at Incirlik Air Base,...