Existing route known as 'Israel Trail' was ranked by National Geographic magazine as one of world's top 20 hikes in 2012 The Israeli government on Sunday agreed to fund the creation of a hiking trail through the occupied West Bank and Golan Heights, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin...

A Russian-backed Congress of Syrian peoples in the Russian city of Sochi has been postponed until February, Russia's RIA news agency reported Monday, citing a diplomatic source. The event, called the Syrian Congress on National Dialogue, was initially to be held in November but some...

A breakthrough in U.N.-backed Syria peace talks in Geneva this week seems hardly more likely than in seven failed earlier rounds as President Bashar al-Assad pushes for total military victory and his opponents stick by their demand he leave power. U.N. Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 9 civilians have been killed on Monday in renewed airstrikes on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Capital, local activists said. Monday’s strikes targeted Madyara suburb topping the death toll to 160 people, including 30 children, since the...