A number of Lebanese lawyers have condemned the forced deportations of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, stressing that calls for handing over Syrian refugees and prisoners to the Assad regime is a crime against humanity. Lawyer Muhammad Sablouh told Zaman al-Wasl that the Lebanese government...

DUBAI — Saudi authorities foiled an attempt to smuggle more than 5 million amphetamine tablets into the country in a shipment of stones through a Jeddah seaport Monday. The Saudi Ministry of Interior’s General Directorate of Narcotics Control (GDNC) made the announcement, the latest in a...

Israeli airstrikes targeted the international airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo early Tuesday, killing one Syrian soldier and putting the airport out of commission, state media said. Syria's state news agency SANA, citing a military official, said two civilians and five other...

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan's warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia, the top U.N. official in the country said on Monday, even as the two sides clashed in the capital of Khartoum despite another three-day extension of a fragile cease-fire....

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The leader of the Islamic State group was killed in an operation by Turkish intelligence teams in northern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced. Turkey's state media said the IS leader blew himself up to avoid capture. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told TRT...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's top diplomat said on Monday that regional talks with Syria are a step in the right direction to end a decade of the war-torn country’s political isolation and bring Damascus back into the Arab fold. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi's remarks came as...

Palestinian refugee Basel Mustafa Al-Khatib, 35, from Sbeineh camp in Damascus countryside, confirmed the news of his forcible deportation by the Lebanese authorities to the Syrian territories. The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria quoted Al-Khatib as saying that he had not entered the...

A senior police officer was killed by unidentified assailants in southeastern Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province on Sunday, in the latest incident of targeted attacks on law enforcement officials in the restive province. Colonel Alireza Shahraki, who headed the police's criminal...

Iran sent a plane Saturday to Saudi Arabia to transfer its nationals evacuated from Sudan amid ongoing clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. Saudi-funded Al-Arabiya television reported that Iran sent the plane to pick up the nationals who were...

The international coalition forces, led by the United States of America, conducted military exercises in one of their military bases deployed in the Kurdish-held areas in northeastern Syria. A local source in the countryside of Al-Hasakah province told Zaman al-Wasl that the International...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia’s coast guard says it has recovered around 210 bodies of migrants under two weeks that have washed up on the North African country’s central coastline amid an ongoing increase in migration. Preliminary examinations of the bodies indicated that the migrants were...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man went next door with a rifle and began shooting his neighbors, killing an 8-year-old and four others inside the house, after the family asked him to stop firing rounds in his yard because they were trying to sleep, authorities said Saturday. San Jacinto County...

The German newspaper Welt reported that last year 28,336 foreigners obtained German citizenship in Bavaria, increasing the number of citizens by more than 22 percent compared to the previous year. The newspaper said, quoting Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, on Friday, that the...

Suspected Israeli airstrikes targeted the Syrian province of Homs early Saturday, state media reported. Syria's state news agency, SANA, citing military officials, said that three civilians were wounded in the strike and that a civilian fuel station caught fire and a number of fuel tankers...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's navy seized a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday heading to the U.S. amid wider tensions over Tehran's nuclear program, the latest-such capture in a waterway crucial for global energy supplies. The U.S. Navy's...

 A young man wearing a baseball cap emblazoned with “Dior," women clutching babies wrapped in blankets, children bundled in winter coats. All gingerly stepped from rickety boats into the sturdy craft of the Tunisian Maritime National Guard — and away from their dreams of life in Europe....

Thursday's exchange rate reached 8,000 Syrian pounds to the US dollar for the first time in a number of Syrian cities. The Damascus dollar" had risen by 120 pounds, during the past 24 hours. Compared to the prices recorded at noon on Wednesday, until 4:00 a.m. Thursday, the “Damascus...

Warring factions trying to seize control of the east African nation of Sudan have plunged the country into chaos, and thousands are fleeing the capital of Khartoum and nearby battle zones. Some countries, including the U.S., have shuttered their embassies and many are coordinating daring...

A man arrested over last week's stabbing attack at a gym in western Germany in which four people were wounded is now also a suspect in a fatal stabbing earlier this month, prosecutors said Thursday. The 26-year-old Syrian, whom authorities are identifying only as M.D. in line with German...

BEIRUT (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister said Thursday that Tehran wants Lebanon's rivals to reach an agreement to elect a new president in the crisis-hit country that has been without a head of state since October. Hossein Amirabdollahian made his comments during his first visit to Lebanon...