(Reuters) - France will open a center late this year to help reintegrate young French citizens who return from conflict zones such as Syria but are not subject to prosecution, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Wednesday. France is a top Western source country for jihadi...

Western and Arab demands for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have fueled years of unnecessary bloodshed as they have prevented negotiations on a political settlement, Iran's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Iran's top diplomat, Mohammad Javad Zarif, also...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Senate rejected an effort on Wednesday to tie sanctions relief for Iran under an international nuclear agreement to a requirement that President Barack Obama certify that Tehran is not supporting acts of terrorism against Americans. A handful of Republicans...

European Parliament has adopted a resolution to increase the EU budget for fighting illegal immigration networks in the Mediterranean in a bid to stop migrant deaths at sea. The resolution, which was approved by 449 votes to 130, with 93 abstentions Wednesday, said that the budget would be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 people have been killed and dozens wounded in Syrian air strikes on  Aleppo and Idlib northern Syria, activists and monitoring group said Wednesday. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 people, including 2 children, were killed in barrel-bomb attack on...

(Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi rulers have launched an investigation against dozens of public figures, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Tawakul Karman, state news agency Saba said late on Tuesday, following a complaint that could amount to treason. Saba said a non-governmental...

(Reuters) - Thousands of police in riot gear and National Guard troops patrolled Baltimore to enforce a curfew on Tuesday night, dispersing protesters with pepper spray a day after the city was shaken by the worst rioting in the United States in years. With helicopters overhead and...

The European Union's top diplomat on Tuesday voiced the hope that Iran would play an important but constructive role in a renewed United Nations push to restart negotiations aimed at ending the four-year civil war in Syria. The U.N. envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has said he will...

(Reporting by Ma'moon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syrian regime’s customs have seized huge amounts of products from traders in many shops after resuming their activities in famous Dablan market in Homs, Activists confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl. Activists mentioned that...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday named his powerful Interior Minister as heir to the throne and a son as second in line, under a shakeup that also saw the world's longest-serving foreign minister replaced. "We have decided to respond to his highness and what he had expressed about...

Syrian raids hit Red Cross hospital in the neighborhood of al-Sakhour in Aleppo, leaving four wounded, activists said Tuesday. The barrel-bomb attack on the only active hospital in the eastern district of Aleppo has left  major damage as big part of the building had turned to rubble,...

Southern Front rebels on Tuesday have attacked an Islamic State-affiliated group in Quneitra countryside, killing dozens, activists said. On Monday, Jaysh al-Jihad, an Islamist group that pledged allegiance to ISIS, had ambushed fighters of Suyouf al-Haq brigade near the Occupied Golan...

Ultra-radical Islamic State insurgents have killed at least 2,154 people off the battlefield in Syria since the end of June when the group declared a caliphate in territory it controls, a Syrian human rights monitor said on Tuesday. The killings of mostly Syrians included deaths by beheading,...

The Nigerian army said Tuesday that at least 200 girls and 93 women have been rescued from the notorious Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram stronghold. "Troops this afternoon rescued 200 girls and 93 women from Sambisa forest," the defense headquarters said on Twitter. "We cannot confirm if the...

 The last group of Peshmerga Kurdish forces fighting Daesh in Kobani are set to leave, now the Syrian city is free of the terrorist organization, the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs has announced. A total of 124 Peshmerga Kurdish troops will head back to Iraq on Tuesday night or...

 Jets from a Saudi-led alliance destroyed the runway of Yemen's Sanaa airport on Tuesday to prevent an Iranian plane from landing there, Saudi Arabia said, as fighting across the country killed at least 30 people. Yemeni Vice President Khaled Bahah had called on the Houthis on...

(Reuters) - Heavy fighting between Iranian-allied Houthi militia and local tribesmen killed at least 15 people in Yemen's oil-producing Marib province and an air strike targeted the home of a senior Houthi official, residents and tribal and medical sources said. Yemeni Vice...

The Red Cross "lost its moral compass" during World War Two, turning a blind eye to atrocities committed by the Nazis, but is speaking out more now about conflicts including Syria, its president said on Tuesday. Peter Maurer said the International Committee of the Red Cross had...

(Reporting by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A defected nurse worked in Hospital 601 that was the crime scene of the atrocious photos of mass torture published 2014, reported to Zaman al-Wasl horrible facts about torturing detainees in the hospital, including...

 Yemen is facing mounting problems bringing in food by sea as the danger from fighting between Houthis and government supporters is exacerbated by an arms blockade by Saudi-led coalition navies searching ships for weapons destined for the rebels. The Arabian peninsula's...