President Trump spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday about the conflict in Libya and fighting in Syria’s Idlib province, according to the White House. “The leaders discussed bilateral and regional issues,” White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said in...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said at least 3,364 civilians were documented killed in 2019 at the hands of the perpetrator parties to the conflict in Syria, including 234 in December.      According to SNHR , the Syrian regime and allied militias had killed 1,497...

President Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that up to 250,000 migrants were fleeing from the northwestern Syrian region of Idlib towards Turkey, adding that Ankara was trying to prevent them from crossing its border. Turkey hosts some 3.7 million Syrian refugees, the largest refugee...

Saudi Arabia condemned attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the Saudi foreign ministry said in statement published by the kingdom's official press agency Thursday. Supporters of Iranian-backed Iraqi paramilitary groups who stormed the U.S. Embassy perimeter in two days of protests...

Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday refused to rule on a request by lawyers seeking to prevent indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from forming a government after looming elections. The lawyers took their case to Israel's highest court on Tuesday, arguing that Netanyahu's indictment...

State-run media outlets on Thursday have reported a state of panic among the residents of Barada Valley west of the capital, after dozens of people were hospitalized with diarrhea, abdominal pain and severe vomiting. After a prolonged silence, the regime stated that the polluted water is the...

Increased air pollution in Afghanistan in recent years reportedly killed more people than the current civil war in the country, according to officials.  In 2017, about 26,000 people lost their lives due to air pollution related diseases nationwide, while 3,483 people lost their lives...

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said he is ready to set up talks with the U.S. after a year of tension. "I am a man of dialogue! With [U.S. President] Donald Trump or with whom the U.S. governs: whenever, wherever and however they want, we are ready for a dialogue with the highest...

Beirut received an arrest warrant from Interpol regarding ex-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn who escaped from Japan to Lebanon, Lebanese Justice Minister said in a Thursday statement.  A red notice has been received from the Interpol, Albert Serhan added. On Tuesday, Lebanese Interior...

Hundreds of mourners and government officials in Mogadishu gathered at the capital's Police School Thursday to mourn the 79 people killed by a tragic truck bomb last week. Somali government officials and residents marched through Mogadishu's streets to show solidarity with those who lost...

Elite Iraqi troops deployed to secure the US embassy Thursday, a day after a pro-Iran mob laid siege to it in dramatic scenes that overshadowed months of anti-government grassroots protests. The unprecedented attack on the American mission in Baghdad -- in which intruders threw rocks, laid...

An Iraqi activist was shot dead overnight in Baghdad, a police source told AFP Thursday, as anti-government rallies carried on despite a separate day-long siege of the U.S. embassy. The activist, Saadoun al-Luhaybi, was shot in the head in a southwestern neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital,...

French police used tear gas to disperse protesters blockading a Paris bus depot on Thursday, the latest confrontation between the authorities and unions over plans to reform the pension system. The protests, now in their 29th day, are the longest since 1968. Video footage from a BFM...

If North Korea returns to long-range missile launches or other weapons tests in 2020, its military could make valuable technical advances and gain experience alongside whatever political message is sent to Washington. This week North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that the world would soon...

Hong Kong police arrested about 400 people in New Year’s Day protests after what started as a peaceful pro-democracy march of tens of thousands spiraled into chaotic scenes with police firing tear gas to disperse the crowds. The arrests take the total to about 7,000 since protests in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) group has kidnapped four Republican Guard troops near the Dumayr military airbase east of the Damascus, activists said Thursday. The Kidnapped soldiers, originally from Suweida, the main stronghold of Druze community, who has been subjected to a series of...

A top Iranian commander said on Thursday that Iran was not moving toward a war but was not afraid of any conflict, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported after U.S. President Donald Trump said Tehran was behind anti-U.S. protests in Iraq. Trump accused Iran of orchestrating...

Keir Starmer, Brexit spokesman for Britain's opposition Labour Party, has emerged as the early front runner in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader, according to a poll of members. The party is expected to elect a new leader in March after the veteran socialist Corbyn said he would...

Tunisia's designated prime minister will hold more talks on forming a government, the presidential office said, delaying parliament's vote on the new cabinet that had been expected Thursday. Prime Minister-designate Habib Jemli submitted his proposed cabinet list to President Kais Saied...

Taiwan’s military chief was killed when an air force helicopter crashed near the capital on Thursday, the local media reported. Chief of General Staff Shen Yi-ming and Air Force Commander Hsiung Hou-chi were among eight people aboard killed in the crash, the news agency Focus Taiwan...