At least 80 percent of rebel fighters have already pulled out of the battleground Syrian city of Homs and the rest will leave on Thursday, the provincial governor told AFP. The negotiated withdrawal from the city centre where the rebels had held out under tight siege for nearly two years...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has identified 18 new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), it said late on Wednesday, pushing the total number of infections in the country so far to 449. Four people died from the disease on Wednesday, taking the total death toll in...

Interview by Abdullah Raja; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Kasem Saad Eddine, the FSA spokesman, the member of the Higher Military council and first defected Colonel pilot revealed to Zaman Alwasl many details about dismissing Salim Idriss and the...

  Exhausted and worn out from a year-long siege, hundreds of Syrian rebels on Wednesday left their last remaining bastions in the heart of the central city of Homs under a cease-fire deal with government forces, according to AP. The exit of some 1,200 fighters and...