By Abdullah al-Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Spoksman of the opposition High Negotiations Committee Riyad Nassan Agha confirmed the political solution begins with Bashar Assad's departure. In a dialouge with Zaman al-Wasl, he said, “the one who destroyed Syria cannot be accepted to be on...

 U.S.-backed forces now control 40 percent of the Islamic State-held Syrian city of Manbij after new advances in the last day that secured them key areas inside the strategic city near the Turkish border, a monitor said on Sunday. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

Tunisian lawmakers voted on Saturday to dismiss Prime Minister Habib Essid from office during a no-confidence ballot in parliament, clearing the way for a new government that must push through delayed economic reforms. Essid, a technocrat in office less than two years, had been under fire for a...

(Middle East Eye)- Some 5,188 civilians have been killed in Syria since the announcement of a cessation of hostilities in the country five months ago, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said yesterday. The network said the regime forces and Russia were responsible for 71 per cent of the...