Iran's parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf said any negotiations with the United States would be "futile" as he delivered his first major speech to the conservative-dominated chamber Sunday. Ghalibaf, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards' air force, was elected speaker...

Chinese state media took aim at the US government over the weekend as many American cities were gripped by raging protests and clashes, comparing the unrest with the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Beijing has long been infuriated by criticism from Western capitals, especially...

Iran's interior minister has suggested that up to 225 people were killed in November protests sparked by a petrol price hike, ISNA news agency reported on Sunday. Officials in Iran have yet to issue an overall death toll for the unrest, while London-based human rights group Amnesty...

Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque reopened to worshippers on Sunday after a two-and-a-half month coronavirus closure, but Muslim authorities imposed some precautions as health officials warn of an uptick in local infections. The resumption of prayers at Islam's third-holiest site caps a sombre...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An eye-witness and former detainee has revealed to Zaman al-Wasl the identity of Syrian militant who aided Security services in cracking down and arresting Syrian citizens in northern Aleppo province in 2011.   The Berlin-based Anwar Akram Sultan, who applied...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian women's rights activists have decried detaining seven Kurdish women by Turkish-backed opposition faction in the border city of Afrin last week, demanding to hold the perpetrators accountable, according to a statement issued Saturday. Al-Hamza Brigade has released...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would postpone a Group of Seven summit he had hoped to hold next month until September or later and expand the list of invitees to include Australia, Russia, South Korea and India. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One during his return to...

group of Syrians has decided to turn down a job opportunity after discovering that it detailed fighting alongside the ranks of the illegitimate forces of Libyan renegade Gen. Khalifa Haftar in the east of Libya, Demiröen News Agency (DHA) reported Saturday. According to information...

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait confirmed new fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Saturday, while Qatar and Bahrain reported fresh infections.  In a statement, the Saudi Health Ministry said 22 people had died from COVID-19, taking the nationwide death toll to 480.  A...

Italy on Saturday reported 111 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 33,340, as regions prepare to reopen their borders starting June 3. The slowing trend in the number of deaths registered over the past week indicates that the peak of the crisis has...

At least two employees of a local Afghan TV channel were killed and four more injured by a bomb blast in the country's capital Kabul on Saturday. The country's Interior Ministry said in a statement that the incident took place in the city's downtown Qulola Pushta neighborhood in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad on Saturday has appointed five governors, including the war criminal Major General Ghassan Khalil, state-run news agency said.   The presidential decrees named five new governors for the provinces of Daraa, Quneitra, Sweida, Homs and Hasaka.  ...

 Turkish elite forces have killed five YPG militants in northeastern Syria, the Defense Ministry said on Saturday. "Our commandos do not allow passage to terror groups. Five PKK/YPG terrorists, who attempted to infiltrate into the Operation Peace Spring zone, aiming to disrupt the...

Turkish authorities on Saturday sent official orders on recent decisions to ease restrictions related to the novel coronavirus as the country made advances in its fight against the pandemic. The Interior Ministry ordered local officials to allow restaurants, cafes, patisseries, coffee...

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser lashed out at President Donald for his tweets criticizing her and Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department after protests near the White House on Friday night. Trump warned in a tweet Saturday that the Secret Service was ready to unleash “the most...

First-term Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey appeared to be doing everything right.  He worked with the city's booming business community and the City Council. He reached out to minority neighborhoods and advocated for affordable housing. He implemented stricter disciplinary measures against...

Iran's Guardian Council denied Saturday that the killing of a teenage girl by her father was the result of "negligence" due to a delay in its approval of a new child protection law. Last week's apparent "honour" killing of Romina Ashrafi, 14, sparked outrage across Iran, with media...

US President Donald Trump said Saturday that demonstrators protesting the death of a black man who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck would have been "greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen" had they breached the White House fence....

Flames light up the skyline and the smell of acrid smoke fills the streets in a Minneapolis neighborhood rocked by protest, a few hundred meters from a besieged police station. "The real reason we're here is because the police keep killing black folk all around the United States," says a...

"Seeing myself on Netflix, I have to punch myself every day. Like, is that really me?" asked actress Tendaiishe Chitima, star of the first Zimbabwean feature film acquired by the streaming pioneer. "Cook Off" was shot in 2017, just months before the fall of Zimbabwe's despotic...