Gaza's economy is on the "verge of collapse," a new World Bank report warned Friday, saying the unemployment rate there is now the highest in the world and calling on Israel and international donors to remedy the situation. It charged that "blockades, war and poor governance have...

Staffan De Mistura, the U.N. Syria envoy, to meet with head of the Syrian National Coalition in the first week of June,  source told Zaman al-Wasl. Last week, De Mistura, who is presiding over the Geneva peace consultations, received  an official rejection by the Western-backed...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sources reported that Syrian National Coalition has started issuing and renewing passports for Syrians living in Turkey, including defected soldiers and officers, beside youth who escaped the compulsory military service and others. Sources mentioned...

The Islamic State militant group has seized Syria's last border crossing with Iraq after Syrian government forces withdrew, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Thursday. The al-Tanf crossing, known as al-Waleed in Iraq, is in Syria's Homs province, where...