(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 27,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled the rebel-held countryside of Aleppo in the past 72 hours since regime forces backed by Shiite militias began major offensive on Friday, local war monitoring said.  The Syrian Response Coordinators Group...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has traveled to Colombia to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, an opposition lawmaker said Sunday. Guaido's move comes amid an overture by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for direct negotiations with the United States on an end to...

Nantes announced on Sunday that they will pay tribute to their former striker Emiliano Sala at the league match against his first French club, Bordeaux, on January 26. The 28-year-old player was killed on January 21, 2019, when the small plane taking him to join Cardiff City crashed off the...

Fattah al-Sisi over the death of an American national imprisoned in Egypt since 2013. Mustafa Kassem, a 54-year-old Egyptian-American who suffered from diabetes and heart problems, died January 13 after a hunger strike in which he ceased drinking fluids for four days before his death....

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated their commitment on Sunday to the Iran nuclear deal and agreed a long-term framework was needed, Downing Street said on Sunday. “On Iran, the leaders reiterated their commitment to the JCPoA (Joint...

Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar must end his aggressive stance to pave the way for a political process in the North African country, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday at a peace summit in Berlin. “To implement the other stages of the political process and...

 Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri on Sunday urged politicians to urgently form a new government and find solutions for the country’s economic crisis, after a night of violent clashes between security forces and protesters. “There is a roadmap to calm the popular storm. Stop wasting time, form...

Countries struggled at an international peace summit for Libya on Sunday to draw eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar back into diplomacy, days after he quit talks and more than half of Libya’s oil output was shut in areas he controls. Haftar, whose forces are bearing down on the...

A group representing southern Libyan tribesmen said Sunday it had closed the southern El Shahara and El Feel oilfields, virtually halting all of Libya's oil output during a major international peace summit for Libya in Berlin. The leader of the Fezzan Anger group, Bashir al-Sheikh, told...

Jordan's parliament Sunday voted in favour of a law to ban gas imports from Israel, weeks after the Jewish state began pumping it to the kingdom in a $10 billion deal. It remained unclear however whether the government in Amman would back the legislative push against an agreement which it...

Heavy snow covered the streets of Tehran on Sunday, causing major flight delays and forcing the closure of schools, authorities in the Iranian capital said. The snow started falling early in the morning and disrupted the flow of traffic on some of the city's main highways, AFP...

Buckingham Palace says Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, will no longer use the titles "royal highness" or receive public funds under a deal struck Saturday for them to step aside as senior royals. Buckingham Palace said Harry and Meghan will cease to be working members of the royal family...

 Iran will review its cooperation with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog over any "unjust" measures, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani said after EU powers last week triggered a dispute mechanism under Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal. "We state openly that if the European powers,...

The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was accidentally shot down by Iran this month were brought back to Ukraine Sunday in a solemn ceremony at Kiev airport. All 176 on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev were killed when the...

President Vladimir Putin has said he does not want Russia to return to the Soviet-era practice of rulers dying in office without a succession plan, as speculation swirls over his future after he unleashed a political upheaval this week. The 67-year-old Russian leader said a transition plan...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said he hoped for an "important step" to cement Libya's fragile ceasefire at an international peace conference in Germany. "We see the Berlin summit as an important step on the way to cementing the ceasefire and a political solution," Erdogan...

Iran's parliamentary speaker on Sunday warned of unspecified repercussions for the UN's nuclear watchdog if European nations that launched a dispute mechanism against the Islamic republic act "unfairly". Britain, France and Germany launched a process last week charging Iran with failing to...

Several police officers were beaten bloody by pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong Sunday as violence erupted at a rally calling for greater democratic freedoms in the heart of the city. Trouble flared when police ordered the gathering to disperse from the city's commercial district, with...

Protests escalated across Iraq's south and its capital Baghdad on Sunday as demonstrators sealed off streets with burning tyres in outrage at the government's slow pace of reform. The youth-dominated rallies demanding an overhaul of the ruling system have rocked Shiite-majority parts of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed factions have thwarted an incursion by regime forces into strategic hilltops in northern Idlib region, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. The regime army backed by allied militias was pushing to take the hilltops of Khatra and Mosaitef but the...