Saudi Arabia's foreign minister on Monday appealed for calm after a "very dangerous" escalation following the killing of a top Iranian general in a US drone strike. Prince Faisal bin Farhan's appeal came as the US warned that Saudi Arabia faced a "heightened risk" of missile and drone...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A decent number of Palestinian people and elites consider the likes of Bashar Al-Assad and slain Iranian General Qassem Soleimani as the saviors of the Israeli occupation and the salvation way to their return to the Holy Land.  No matter the arguments or facts,...

The Action Group For Palestinians of Syria (AGPS) documented the death of 616 Palestinian refugees under torture in Syrian government prisons since the outburst of the bloody warfare. Updated statistics by AGPS indicate that 1,780 Palestinian refugees have been secretly held behind...

NATO ambassadors will meet at their Brussels headquarters on Monday as Middle East tensions mount after US forces killed a top Iranian general. "The North Atlantic Council will address the situation in the region," a NATO official said. "The secretary-general decided to convene the...

New reports emerged Monday on how fugitive former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn jumped bail in Japan, as the country's justice minister said border controls would be bolstered after the escape. The 65-year-old executive skipped bail nearly a week ago, fleeing Japan where he was awaiting trial on...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will introduce and vote on a war powers resolution this week to limit U.S. President Donald Trump’s military actions regarding Iran. “This resolution is similar to the resolution introduced by Senator Tim Kaine in the Senate,” Pelosi said in a...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday led prayers in the funeral of slain military commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone strike. The prayers in Tehran by Khamenei, who was flanked by officials including President Hassan Rouhani, were part of a...

China criticized the United States for aggravating tension in the Middle East through its military interventionism over the standoff between Washington and Tehran and urged all parties to exercise restraint to ensure peace and stability. Beijing also urges the U.S. not to abuse its force,...

Two rockets hit near the US embassy in Iraq's capital Sunday, witnesses told AFP, hours after the ambassador was summoned over a US strike that killed top Iraqi and Iranian commanders. Sunday's attack was the second night in a row that the Green Zone was hit and the 14th time over the last...

Mourners packed the streets of Tehran on Monday for ceremonies to pay homage to top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, after he was killed in a US strike in Baghdad. Clutching portraits of their hero, the crowd gathered at Tehran University before supreme leader Ayatollah Ali...

Al-Shabab extremists overran a key military base used by U.S. counterterror forces in Kenya before dawn Sunday, killing three American Department of Defense personnel and destroying several U.S. aircraft and vehicles before they were repelled, U.S. and Kenyan authorities said. The...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime offensive pushed 1,294,558 people in 2019 from their homes in a region of three million people, the Syria Response Coordinators group said Saturday.  The relief group sent a humanitarian plea to the Secretary-General of the United Nations,...

The Israeli opposition pushed Sunday for parliament to swiftly address Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's immunity request, potentially speeding up the embattled leader's appearance in court. Netanyahu announced his bid for immunity just two months before the March 2 general election, with...

Iran's state television reported that the country will no longer abide by any of the limits of its 2015 nuclear deal. The announcement came Sunday night after another Iranian official said it would consider taking even-harsher steps over the U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in...

The U.S. military may strike more Iranian leaders if the Islamic Republic retaliates for the Trump administration's killing of Tehran's most powerful general last week by attacking Americans or American interests, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday. As Pompeo conducted a round...

A Turkish aid agency provided humanitarian aid to people of Syria’s Idlib who escaped bombardments of regime and its supporters, and took shelter near the Turkish border.   The Bashar al-Assad regime continue intensified air and land attacks on civilian settlements in northwestern...

The military adviser to Iran's supreme leader said the Islamic republic's response to a US strike that killed one of the country's top commanders will be military, CNN reported Sunday. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed "severe revenge" after a US drone strike Friday in Baghdad...

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday said the US army will "pay the price" for killing top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and a senior Iraqi commander in a strike. "The American army killed them and it will pay the price," the Iran-backed head of the Lebanese Shiite group Hassan...

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido hit out at the police on Sunday for preventing him from attending the National Assembly where he was due to be voted in for a second term as parliament speaker. Lawmakers were due to elect the new National Assembly president, with Guaido widely...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that Iran will probably try to attack American troops after a US strike killed a top Iranian commander. "We think there is a real likelihood Iran will make a mistake and make a decision to go after some of our forces, military forces in Iraq or...