Turkey, faced with a new wave of Syrian migrants and 33 more dead soldiers in Idlib, will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe, a senior Turkish official said late on Thursday as President Tayyip Erdogan chaired an emergency meeting. An air strike by Syrian government...

An Israeli drone fired a missile at a car in southern Syria on Thursday, killing one person, Syrian state TV reported, while an opposition war monitor said the man targeted was an anti-Israel operative. The state-run media outlet gave no further details on the attack near the southern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ‪At least 33 Turkish soldiers have been killed in northern Idlib province in air strikes carried out by Russian-led regime forces, Turkish officials said late on Thursday as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that the death toll has reached a total of 34. ‬...

A UN official expressed the “gravest" alarm Thursday that a military offensive in northwest Syria is having catastrophic humanitarian consequences due to the “unprecedented number of persons displaced.”  “Airstrikes and shelling continue affecting dozens of communities and villages in...

For years, Ibrahim al-Dabba has been saving up money to make the umrah pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites in Saudi Arabia, which for many Palestinians is the only way to leave the impoverished and isolated Gaza Strip. He registered with a tourism agency back in September, hoping to make...

President Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday three more Turkish soldiers had been killed in Syria's Idlib region, where Turkey's military is backing Syrian rebels against government forces, but that developments there were turning in Ankara's favour. "We have three martyrs, let them rest in...

The United States on Thursday urged India to respect the right to peaceful assembly and called on all sides to refrain from violence after sectarian riots in Delhi killed at least 33 people. In a cautious statement, the top US diplomat for South Asia sought to show little distance with...

Leading Israeli Arab politician Ayman Odeh has made US President Donald Trump and his controversial peace plan the main target of his campaign for Tuesday's general election. "We have an opportunity to defeat the Trump plan in these elections," said Ayman Odeh, head of the mainly Arab Joint...

Four civilians, including three children, were killed by artillery fire in an area of northwestern Syria under a nominal cease-fire, local sources said on Thursday. Four civilians were killed in the attacks, carried out by Assad regime forces and Iranian-backed terror groups in the...

A former housekeeper at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence is suing the leader's wife Sara for pain and suffering allegedly caused during her employment there, the housekeeper's attorney said Thursday. Opheer Shimson says his client is demanding $190,000 in...

 Tunisia has a new government at last, after four months of arguing among rival parties in the young North African democracy. After a 15-hour debate, the Tunisian parliament voted 129-77 with one abstention to approve the government of Prime Minister-designate Elyes Fakhfakh early...

Eight MPs from Germany's radical-left Left party said Thursday they had filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her ministers, accusing them of complicity in the US killing of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Their complaint relates to the US Air Force's massive...

Britain warned Thursday it would not commit to following European Union rules in a post-Brexit trade deal, and threatened to abandon talks in June if no compromise was possible. Two days after EU ministers approved their own joint approach to the negotiations, which start Monday, Prime...

Iraq announced the first confirmed case of coronavirus in the capital Baghdad on Thursday, taking nationwide infections to six and raising concerns about the capacity of the dilapidated health system to respond. The government announced sweeping measures late Wednesday to try to contain the...

Sporadic violence hit parts of Delhi overnight as gangs roamed streets littered with the debris of days of sectarian riots that have killed 32 people, police said Thursday. Thousands of riot police and paramilitaries patrolled the affected northeast fringes of the Indian capital of 20...

Malaysia's parliament will convene Monday to decide on the country's next prime minister after days of horse-trading failed to break an impasse, said Mahathir Mohamad, whose resignation triggered the crisis. Mahathir quit this week as premier and the government collapsed, following a bid to...

Saudi Arabia on Thursday halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears about a viral epidemic just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, a move that came as the Mideast has over 240 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. The extraordinary decision by Saudi Arabia stops...

As the worst-hit areas of Asia continued to struggle with a viral epidemic, with hundreds more cases reported Thursday in South Korea and China, worries about infection and containment spread across the globe. For the first time, the coronavirus has caused more new cases outside China,...

The death toll in China from the coronavirus outbreak has risen to 2,746, the country’s National Health Commission said Thursday. The commission said 29 people have died in the past 24 hours while 433 new cases were detected by health authorities, bringing the total number of confirmed...

Moderate opposition groups on Thursday took control of Saraqib, a strategic district in Syria's restive Idlib province, from the Assad regime forces. This comes after these groups on Monday took another strategic village, al-Nayrab in Saraqib, a gateway to Idlib. In September 2018,...