Turkey plans to offer Syrian refugees work permits in order to ease the pressure on them to migrate, Volkan Bozkir, Turkey's minister for European Affairs, said on Monday. The number of people immigrating illegally exceeded 150,000 in 2015, and Turkish authorities stopped 500 migrants...

 Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Saudi Arabia of supporting extremists and "promoting sectarian hatred" and urged Riyadh to instead engage in promoting regional stability. Writing in The New York Times, Zarif said Saudi Arabia had devoted itself to trying...

Franco-Dutch airline group Air France-KLM said Monday that the November 13 terror attacks in Paris reduced its December turnover by an estimated 70 million euros ($76.42 million). But the effect had largely tailed off over the past two weeks, it added. "The negative impact of the Paris...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- A rehabilitation and physiotherapy centre in Reyhanli, a Turkish border city with Syria, is about to shut down due to lack of funds, leaving its Syrian patients wondering of their future medical and clinical conditions, or even how to afford for...