An Iranian delegation will meet Saudi officials next week to discuss arrangements for this year's hajj pilgrimage, the first dialogue between the rival powers since a diplomatic crisis erupted in January. Riyadh severed diplomatic ties with Iran on Jan. 3, a day after its missions in Tehran...

Displaced residents of the famed Syrian city of Palmyra, recently recaptured by the army, will begin returning to their homes at the weekend, a government official told AFP Thursday. Syria's armed forces recaptured Palmyra and the adjacent world-famous ruins from the ISIS on March 27, ending...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- 8 players from Karamah and Wathba soccer clubs left Syria without permission to leave, a document leaked by Sports Office-Baath Homs Branch says the branch received a record to inform for their leaving in 14 January 2016. The document signed by Homs Branch’s head Subhi...

Writing by Abdulhafiz al-Holani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Amna Mohammed Bakar, a grandmother from Qusayr in Homs Countryside, refugee in Lebanon, has pledged to give the name of “Daraya”, the name of well known suburb of Damascus, to her first grandchild if it was a...