Libyan deputies voted Saturday for a break in diplomatic relations with Turkey over its controversial agreements with the UN-recognized government that is contested inside the North African country. At an emergency meeting in the eastern city of Benghazi, parliament also urged the...

French anti-terrorist investigators said Saturday they have taken over the probe into an attack by a knife-wielding man who killed one person walking with his wife in a park south of Paris before being shot dead by police. Police said the man, identified as 22-year-old Nathan C., attacked...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The meeting sessions of independent members from the Syrian opposition in Riyadh have ended, however, their effects did not halt, as the fear of a "vertical secession" increases, according to the statement of the head of the negotiation commission Nasr Hariri. Both...

A new Iranian general has stepped out of the shadows to lead the country's expeditionary Quds Force, becoming responsible for Tehran's proxies across the Mideast as the Islamic Republic threatens the U.S. with “harsh revenge” for killing its previous head, Qassem Soleiman. The Quds...

President Donald Trump is not the first American leader to have Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in his sights, but he was the first to pull the trigger. It’s a pattern that has emerged throughout Trump’s presidency. On a range of national security matters, he has cast aside the same...

Almost nine years of civil war in Syria has left more than 380,000 people dead including over 115,000 civilians, a war monitor said in a new toll Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of sources across the country, said they included around 22,000 children...

Fourteen civilians, including many schoolchildren, died Saturday when a roadside bomb blew up their bus in northwestern Burkina Faso, a security source told AFP. Four people were seriously hurt in the blast in Sourou province near the Mali border, the source added, as children returned...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 pro-Iran militants killed Friday by landmines planted by Daesh (ISIS) on a desert road links between Homs and Deir Ezzor province, local news site reported. Badyia 24 said the landmine attack took place near the town of al-Sukhnah in the eatsern countryside...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 4,671 people were arrested by the Syrian regime and other warring factions in 2019, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.    According to SNHR report , Syrian regime forces arrested at least 2,797 people, including 113 children and...

Over one hundred thousand protesters, many carrying the Indian tricolor flag, took part in a peaceful march in the southern city of Hyderabad Saturday, chanting slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new citizenship law. The protest, dubbed the ‘Million March’, was organised by an...

 A Lebanese Hezbollah official said the response of the Iran-backed “axis of resistance” to the killing of Iran’s military commander Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. air strike will be decisive, al-Mayadeen TV said on Saturday. The leader of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc in Lebanon,...

Iran will punish Americans wherever they are within reach of the Islamic Republic in retaliation for the killing of military commander Qassem Soleimani, Tasnim news agency quoted a senior Revolutionary Guards commander as saying. General Gholamali Abuhamzeh, the commander of the Guards in...

The head of Egypt’s tax authority, Abdul Azim Hussein, has been arrested on charges of receiving bribes, the public prosecutors’ office said on Saturday. “It was proved through recorded phone calls and meetings that he received money and gifts as bribes”, it added in a statement. The...

China has removed the head of its Hong Kong liaison office Wang Zhimin, according to a Saturday post on the official website of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. The move comes as sometimes violent protests roil Hong Kong in a months-long show of anti-Beijing sentiment....

Iraq's prime minister attended a mourning procession in Baghdad on Saturday for Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed in a US strike the previous day. Adel Abdel Mahdi joined Muhandis associate Hadi al-Ameri, Shiite cleric Ammar...

A lawyer for former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn said Saturday he felt betrayed by his client's escape from Japan but still understood his act, claiming it resulted from Japan's inhumane justice system. The international tycoon, who faces multiple charges of financial misconduct that he denies,...

US-led forces helping Iraqi troops fight jihadists have scaled back operations, a US defence official told AFP Saturday, a day after an American strike killed top Iranian and Iraqi commanders. "Our first priority is protecting coalition personnel," the official said, saying the US-led force...

Bushfires burned dangerously out of control on Australia’s east coast on Saturday, fueled by high temperatures and strong winds that had firefighters battling to save lives and property, and authorities said the worst of conditions was yet to come. By early evening, Victoria had 16 fires...

Apple chief Tim Cook saw his annual pay slip to $11.6 million in 2019 after the company registered a weaker financial performance compared with the previous year, according to documents filed Friday. Cook, who took home $15.7 million in 2018, is paid a base salary of $3 million, in addition...

Tens of thousands of Indonesians were still unable to return to their waterlogged homes Saturday after flooding hit the Jakarta capital region, killing at least 53 people, authorities said. More than 170,000 people took refuge in shelters across the massive urban conglomeration -- home to...