In Belgium's version of the Oscars this weekend, a film about Guatemala's civil war is an unusual nominee -- telling a story set more than two decades ago and 9,000 kilometres (5,000 miles) away. But, explained director Cesar Diaz, "the distance is essential" to his movie, "Our Mothers"...

Dominic Thiem  booked his place in his third Grand Slam championship final on Friday with a hard-fought win at the  Australian Open . The fourth seed battled back from losing the first set, and saved two set points in the third set of a 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(3), 7-6(4) victory over...

Once the throbbing heart of the uprising against Bashar al-Assad's regime, Maaret al-Numan is an eerie ghost town where few buildings have been spared by nine years of war. Following a major ground offensive, the Syrian army captured the town in the northwestern province of Idlib on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 87 civilians have been killed since the start of the Russian-Turkish ceasefire agreement on January 12 in northwestern Idlib province, a monitoring group said on Friday. The death toll included 33 children and 11 women, according to the Syrian Network for Human...