European Parliament has adopted a resolution to increase the EU budget for fighting illegal immigration networks in the Mediterranean in a bid to stop migrant deaths at sea. The resolution, which was approved by 449 votes to 130, with 93 abstentions Wednesday, said that the budget would be...

(Reporting by Ma'moon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Syrian regime’s customs have seized huge amounts of products from traders in many shops after resuming their activities in famous Dablan market in Homs, Activists confirmed to Zaman al-Wasl. Activists mentioned...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday named his powerful Interior Minister as heir to the throne and a son as second in line, under a shakeup that also saw the world's longest-serving foreign minister replaced. "We have decided to respond to his highness and what he had expressed about...

Ultra-radical Islamic State insurgents have killed at least 2,154 people off the battlefield in Syria since the end of June when the group declared a caliphate in territory it controls, a Syrian human rights monitor said on Tuesday. The killings of mostly Syrians included deaths by beheading,...