Turkish border guards have beaten and shot Syrians trying to reach Turkey, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, as fighting in the border province of Aleppo intensifies threatening to force more people to flee. HRW said in a report based on interviews with victims, witnesses and Syrian...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hassan Mohammad Shaayto, Mukhtar of the town of Ainata in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, died from a heart attack on Sunday after he won against his opponent Abdul Karim Harmoush. The elections were held in the Lebanese capital Beirut and the area of Bekaa...

ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- The foggy Turkish political scene is reflecting on the price of the national currency quickly and clearly after the Turkish Lira witnessed a visible improvement in recent months that enabled it to achieve a gain against the dollar. However, what took the Lira months...

President Barack Obama said on Thursday he expected the United States would meet a goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees before the end of the year despite delays and opposition from critics concerned about security implications. As Europe grappled with Syrians fleeing the country’s civil...