A rocket hit a base in northern Iraq that hosts U.S. forces on Thursday but caused no casualties, Iraqi security sources said. The base, known as K1 near the city of Kirkuk, is where a U.S. civilian contractor was killed in December in a similar attack, blamed by Washington on...

The U.S. Senate backed legislation on Thursday to limit President Donald Trump’s ability to wage war against Iran, rebuking him after a strike against an Iranian military commander and Tehran’s retaliation last month raised fears of broader regional conflict. Eight of Trump’s fellow...

 (Zmaan Al Wasl)- About 250 refugees have voluntary returned to Syrian from Lebanon, the Lebanese General Security said Thursday. Ten buses carrying 150 refugees to Qusayr town and 150 more to Damascus suburbs crossed the border into Syria through Masnaa crossings. ...

Hundreds of Iraqi women of all ages flooded central Baghdad Thursday alongside male anti-government protesters, defying an order by powerful cleric Moqtada Sadr to separate the genders in the rallies. Some were veiled, others not, still more wrapped their faces in black-and-white checkered...

Rival forces clashed in the Libyan capital Thursday, causing new civilian casualties in the grinding conflict a day after a UN Security Council resolution called for a "lasting ceasefire". The resolution was the council's first since eastern Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday denounced the UN release of a list of companies involved with Israeli settlements, saying it proved the world body was biased against the Jewish state. "Its publication only confirms the unrelenting anti-Israel bias so prevalent at the United...

Campaigning kicked off in Iran on Thursday ahead of next week's crucial parliamentary election at which conservatives are expected to win most seats after thousands of moderates and reformists were disqualified. The February 21 election comes after months of escalating tensions between Iran...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Huthi rebels will put on trial military personnel suspected of being behind deadly air strikes on civilians in Yemen, where the UN has deplored horrific rights violations. Wednesday's announcement by coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki is the first of its...

German judges Thursday sentenced a Syrian man to three and a half years in prison for crimes including posing with the head of a decapitated corpse in his home country. Identified only as Kassim A., the 34-year-old received one and a half years from the superior state court in Koblenz for...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iman Layla, a displaced infant form Eastern Ghouta suburbs, died of cold in a makeshifts camp near northern Afrin city, medics said Thursday. Iman was suffering from a respiratory infection due to the cold winter that left the stranded refugees in a tragic...

A Syrian man held on suspicion of plotting an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon was referred to trial on Thursday along with 20 other people, the Lebanese state news agency NNA said. NNA said a Lebanese military judge had issued an indictment against the man on charges of belonging to...

Lebanon is studying options for dealing with its forthcoming Eurobond maturities, including whether to pay the debt, the finance minister said on Thursday after meeting with the president and central bank governor. The heavily indebted country is in deep financial trouble and must decide...

Germany has called on Russia on Thursday to use its influence on the Syrian regime to stop its offensive in northwestern Syria. “These attacks must be stopped,” German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in an exclusive interview with the German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung. “We are now...

Syria's parliament Thursday recognised the 1915-1917 murder of up to 1.5 million Armenians as genocide, as tensions run high with Turkey after deadly clashes in northwest Syria. "The parliament... condemns and recognises the genocide committed against the Armenians by the Ottoman state at...

A senior Pakistani Taliban commander was killed by a bomb in eastern Afghanistan, militant and intelligence sources told AFP Thursday, the latest such incident to target the group in recent days. Sheharyar Mehsud, chief of a militant faction which is part of the umbrella Tehreek-e-Taliban...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- During the first stages of the Syrian revolution, many officers and soldiers defected from the Syrian army and joined the ranks of the rebels to defend their families and their homes. However, with Russia’s military political, and even media and psychological meddling,...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday arrived in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad on a two-day official visit. Prime Minister Imran Khan together with his Cabinet members welcomed the Turkish president, accompanied by a high level delegation, at Nur Khan Airbase, a military base...

Sudan's transitional government said Thursday it has reached a settlement with families of the victims of the 2000 attack on USS Cole in Yemen, in a bid to have the African country taken off the U.S. terrorism list and improve relations with the West. At the time of the Oct. 12, 2000 attack...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- With the outbreak of the revolution, Hilal Muhamad Al-Kin and her husband joined the rebels, demanding freedom and dignity. She lived through the 700-day siege of Homs, during which she led the demonstrations of the women of Jouret Al-Shayah, cooked for members of the Free...

U.S. President Donald Trump will be shielded from the sight of slums by a newly built wall when he visits the city of Ahmedabad during a visit to India this month. A senior government said the wall was being built for security reasons, not to conceal the slum district. But the...