Damascus condemned Wednesday an international donor conference that raised $7.7 billion to address the country's humanitarian challenges, calling it an interference in Syria's domestic affairs. "The Brussels IV conference on Syria and the statements issued by its participants make it clear...

A Turkish military aircraft carrying medical supplies, which departed from the capital Ankara for Iraq to help fight the pandemic, landed at the Baghdad International Airport on Wednesday. "The Turkish Armed Forces aircraft carrying medical supplies for use against the #COVID19 outbreak has...

Hundreds of officials who worked for former Republican President George W. Bush are set to endorse Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden, people involved in the effort said, the latest Republican-led group coming out to oppose the re-election of Donald Trump. The officials, who include...

Turkey will try the 20 suspects in the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi -- including two former aides to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- in absentia on Friday, his fiancee told AFP Tuesday. Khashoggi, 59, a Riyadh critic commentator who wrote for The Washington Post, was...

A new witness has recently provided Zaman al-Wasl with new information about doctor Alaa Mousa, who was arrested in Germany on charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria. The witness, Mazen (a pseudonym), said, “I was arrested in late 2012, on the...

Hong Kong police made the first arrests under Beijing's new national security law on Wednesday as the city greeted the anniversary of its handover to China with protesters fleeing water cannon. The commemorations came a day after China imposed a sweeping security law on the city, a historic...

The Caesar Act only targets the Syrian regime, not Syrians themselves, said Anas al-Abdah, president of the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, a coalition of opposition groups. On Dec. 20, 2019, US President Donald Trump signed the Caesar Syria Civilian...

One person was killed and several others injured during largely peaceful demonstrations in Sudan Tuesday, a government spokesman said, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets demanding faster reform and greater civilian rule in the country's transition towards democracy. Waving...

An explosion from a gas leak in a medical clinic in northern Tehran killed 19 people, Iranian state TV reported Tuesday. Authorities initially said 13 people were dead, but Jalal Maleki, spokesman for the Tehran Fire Department, later told state TV that the toll had risen to 19....

 Saudis braced Wednesday for a tripling in value added tax, another unpopular austerity measure after the twin shocks of coronavirus and an oil price slump triggered the kingdom's worst economic decline in decades. Retailers in the country reported a sharp uptick in sales this week of...

Russians are set to approve constitutional reforms on Wednesday denounced by critics as a manoeuvre to allow President Vladimir Putin to stay in the Kremlin for life. The changes were passed weeks ago by Russia's parliament and copies of the new constitution are already on sale in...

Germany takes over the European Union's six-month presidency Wednesday, with outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel staking her legacy on a massive economic recovery plan to help the bloc cope with the coronavirus fallout. Merkel's last major role on the international stage comes as the...

Sawsan Um Muhammad, 31, can never forget the torture she suffered in prison after she was detained by the Bashar al-Assad regime forces seven years ago. "We were not seen as human beings, all prisoners were treated as sheer numbers," she said. At least 500,000 people including women are...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Tuesday more than $696 million in humanitarian aid will be delivered to Syrians. The help is "in response to the ongoing crisis caused by the Assad regime, Russian, and Iranian forces," he said, noting additional aid brings total US humanitarian...

Britain's Defense Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed Tuesday having seen US intelligence briefings about alleged Russian bounties offered to Afghan militants to kill American troops. "I am aware of the intelligence," Wallace told a parliamentary defence sub-committee hearing when asked...

The US State Department has put the ambassador to Israel's official residence outside Tel Aviv up for sale, in a decision aimed at cementing the American embassy's controversial move to Jerusalem. The beachfront mansion in the affluent Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya is going on the market...

Tens of thousands of Sudanese protesters flocked to the streets Tuesday calling for reforms and demanding justice for those killed in anti-government demonstrations that ousted president Omar al-Bashir last year. The protests in several cities and the capital Khartoum went ahead with...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Iran, warning that the Middle East's stability was at risk, but he faced wide skepticism over US threats to trigger sanctions. The United States is adamant about prolonging the ban on...

A top US health expert warned Congress on Tuesday that new coronavirus cases could more than double to 100,000 per day if authorities and the public fail to take steps to suppress the pandemic. Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, a leading member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus...

Zaman al-Wasl’s war crimes investigation team was contacted by witnesses who relayed information and testimonies against Hatem Abdel Aziz Badawi, a former informant and contractor for the regime’s security branches. Badawi obtained a family reunion visa in 2018 where he joined his wife....