The Syrian regime army and allied militia clashed with rebels in Wadi Barada near Damascus on Sunday, threatening to disrupt planned repair works to a pumping station that supplies most of the capital's water, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and the...

Reporting by Abdulhafiz Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Yusuf Mohammed Nasif, a Syrian refugee infant was born six months ago in Lebanese border town of Arsal with with complete intestinal obstruction by absent of anus which needed urgent operation to enable him to empty his bowels of stool. Yusuf...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to impose martial rule to prosecute his deadly war on drugs, three decades after the nation shed dictatorship with a famous "People Power" revolt. "If I wanted to, and it (the illegal drugs problem) will deteriorate into something really...

The U.S. will join the international community in Paris Sunday in a new push for peace in the Middle East, just five days before Donald Trump, who has vowed unstinting support for Israel, takes office. Foreign ministers and representatives from around 70 countries will seek to revive the...