(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian newborn who had been taken hostage by a Lebanese hospital as  his displaced family could not pay the last $1200 of treatment expenses, has been freed on Monday, activists said. Mohamed Qassab, Syrian activist based in Lebanon, said Syrian and Lebanese...

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syria crisis and the situation in Ukraine during a meeting Monday on the sidelines of the climate summit in Paris, a White House official said. Obama stressed the importance of targeting Islamic State...

Tunisia's 3,000-year history of olive farming is under threat with warnings that production is at risk of halving by 2030 because of the extremes of climate change, from floods to droughts. "Before it used to rain regularly and the harvest was good. Today, everything is...

Saudi officials say a Saudi soldier and two Yemenis have been killed in cross-border shooting and shelling by Yemen's Shiite rebels. Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki says a border guard died Sunday in the southwestern region of Asir. He says Yemen's Shiite rebels, known as...