(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Awasl- Arsal)- Nahla Ayosh, a-50-year- old widow from Qusayr in Homs’s countryside, is responsible for 5 daughters, and two granddaughters, lives in a tiny tent in Lebanese border town of Arsal after her husband and only son were killed. She told Zaman...

AT CHECKPOINTS across the country, Iraq’s many and various security forces cheer Russia’s arrival as an answer to their failure to turn the tide after 16 months battling the jihadists of Islamic State (IS) in north-western Iraq. “The US and its coalition did nothing,” says a...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel travels to Istanbul on Sunday desperate to secure Turkey's help in stemming the flow of migrants from the Middle East to Europe, but without being seen to sacrifice their human rights. Dubbed a "punch-bag" for her own party by some German media due...

Egypt kicked off a long-awaited parliamentary election on Sunday, the final step in a process that was meant to put the country back on a democratic course but which critics say has been undermined by state repression. Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012 when a...