Kazakhstan said Tuesday that a new round of Astana talks on the Syria conflict led by Russia, Turkey and Iran will take place behind closed doors, as the make-up of any rebel delegation remained unclear. The "closed format" negotiations are set to start Wednesday in the Kazakh capital some...

Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Several Tunisian youth have been fighting along with the Syrian regime under the banner the Arab National Guards, the militia official said. Basil Kharat, the political responsible of the “Arab National Guards” confessed that Tunisian young men...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Teaching has been suspended in the schools of southern Daraa city as regime warplanes randomly pound the city, a local governing council said Tuesday. The statement of the Free Daraa Council said the school will be temporarily shut until Thursday unless the aerial bombing...

The Trump administration on Monday slapped sanctions on Venezuela’s new vice president, Tareck El Aissami, accusing him of being an international drug kingpin. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that El Aissami, who was named vice president just...