Syria's official news agency SANA says a mortar round has hit an upscale central Damascus neighborhood, killing a child and wounding four people. It is not uncommon for Damascus to be shelled. Sunday's attack targeted the posh neighborhood of Abu Rummaneh, which houses hotels and several...

A suicide bomber riding a motorbike on Sunday blew up himself in Nusra Front's base in northern province of Idlib, killing 4 people and wounding 13 others. Activists told Zaman al-Wasl that the bomber had targeted 'Justic House' of al-Qaeda's Syria wing in Salqin town. one Nusra fighter was...

Germany and a handful of other European Union states cannot go on absorbing a disproportionate share of refugees arriving in the bloc and other members must do more, a government spokesman said Sunday. Germany expects the number of asylum seekers it receives to quadruple to about...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- Osmanbey's Market is considered the largest and most important commercial centre in Istanbul, where shops of wholesale and retail gather in an area famous of trading clothes, finest fabrics and Turkish threads. The market...