Saudi security forces killed two “terrorists” on Wednesday after a shooting in a residential neighborhood in the eastern city of Dammam, state television al-Ekhbariya reported. “Two wanted terrorists were killed after exchanging fire with security forces,” al-Ekhbariya TV said, without...

An Iranian MiG-29 fighter jet crashed in the northwest of the country on Wednesday, prompting a rescue operation for the pilot, state media quoted Iran’s armed forces as saying. The military said in a statement that rescue teams were sent to the remote mountainous area but that they faced...

A wave of internet outages was imposed in Iran Wednesday, ILNA news agency reported, a day before commemorations called for on social media for those killed in unrest last month. The cut came on the orders of security bodies, the news agency said, citing what it called an informed source at...

Syria's Bashar al-Assad regime backed by Russia and Iran has captured 40 residential areas over the past five days in the northwestern Idlib province, despite the region being designated a de-escalation zone. Since the offensive began on Dec. 20, the regime and its allies have launched...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-based Syrian activist Remy Hassoun has been on a rolling hunger strike to protest the Syrian regime and Russia's continuing offensive on northern Idlib province that left 85 people dead and displaced over 260,000 people in two weeks....

Israel will not allow Iran to entrench in Iraq, Israeli army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Wednesday. Speaking at a conference in Herzliya, Kochavi accused Iran's Quds Force of moving weapons into Iraq on a monthly basis, according to Yedioth Aharonoth newspaper....

Outgoing Education Minister Qusay al-Suhail on Wednesday turned down nomination to be Iraq's new prime minister.  In a letter to his al-Bina coalition, al-Suhail said conditions "were not favorable" for his nomination to the post. The coalition, which is close to Iran, has...

Palestinian group Hamas has called on the Palestinian Authority and rival Fatah movement to "impose" election in the occupied city of Jerusalem without Israel's approval.  "We don't accept to take permission from the [Israeli] occupation to hold election," Hamas leader Salah...

At least 14 civilians were injured in northern Syria when the terrorist YPG/PKK carried out a bomb attack in the district of Jarabulus, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The YPG/PKK terrorists targeted civilians in the district center using two motorcycles armed with...

Turkey believes that Tunisia will contribute to efforts to promote stability in its eastern neighbor Libya, Turkey’s president said on Wednesday. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Tunisian counterpart Kais Saied during a surprise visit to Tunisia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the...

Hong Kong anti-government protesters marched through several shopping malls chanting pro-democracy slogans on Wednesday, a day after violent clashes with the police left a prime tourist district decorated for Christmas shrouded in tear gas. The protests, which escalated in June, have been...

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have ended a nearly five-year-long dispute over shared oil fields and have agreed to resume oil production from the divided Neutral Zone, but stressed this would not change their OPEC commitments to crude oil production cuts. The allied Gulf Arab nations signed the...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Tunisia Wednesday in a surprise visit for talks with his Tunisian counterpart, his office said, in the first visit by a head of state since Tunisian presidential elections in the autumn. The visit comes as Turkey has ramped up efforts to strike...

The funeral of Algeria's powerful army chief Ahmed Gaid Salah got underway Wednesday as his remains arrived at the People's Palace, images broadcast by state TV showed. The wooden coffin containing the body of Gaid Salah, who died of a heart attack Monday aged 79, arrived at 0630 GMT,...

An Iranian military fighter jet crashed on Wednesday near a dormant volcano in the northwest of the country, official media reported. State news agency IRNA said the jet went down at 9:00 am (0530 GMT) near Mount Sabalan, in the Lesser Caucasus range, and was a MiG-29 on a test flight after...

Hundreds of anti-government protesters marched Wednesday in southern Iraq to mourn a dead activist after a night during which the headquarters of two pro-Iran militias were set on fire, an AFP correspondent reported. The demonstrators oppose the political class that has run the oil-rich yet...

Since the eruption of the bloody civil war in Syria in 2011, the Assad regime and Russia attacks killed nearly 1,000 humanitarian workers, according to a Syrian human rights watchdog on Wednesday. A total of 979 humanitarian workers, 882 of which were killed by the Assad regime and 97 by...

Australian firefighters used cooler conditions on Christmas Day to try and contain bushfires ahead of hot, dry weather later in the week, as leaders and communities thanked them for sacrificing time with their families over the holidays. In the state of New South Wales (NSW), which saw...

In a camp for the displaced in northern Syria, Nasrallah scatters mushroom spores into a bag of wet hay, hoping they will sprout and feed his family. "Mushrooms have become the main alternative to meat, as it's so expensive," says the 43-year-old. After the civil war erupted in Syria...

Layla Mohammed barely had time to gather her children's belongings before fleeing their southern Tripoli home when shelling targeted the Libyan capital's outskirts earlier this year. For months she moved her family between apartments as soaring rents in the crowded city exhausted her...