Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has taken emergency steps to try to halt a dramatic fall of the local currency, forbidding the use of money other than Syrian pounds for transactions with the threat of prison and hard labour. The once-resilient Syrian pound has halved...

At least ten people were killed Monday and scores injured when a seating area collapsed during a major Orthodox Christian celebration in Ethiopia, with fears the death toll could rise. The accident occurred just before 8am (0500 GMT) Monday in Gondar, a historic city in the country's north,...

Russian forces carried out fresh airstrikes on a de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, killing at least nine civilians, local sources said on Monday. According to the Syrian opposition aircraft observatory, Russian warplanes targeted the rural areas of the northwestern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee was stoned to death by two men in the Lebanese Naema town in Chouf region, activists said Sunday. No more details have been revealed about the killing of Abdul Rahman al-Akari, 31, father of three children. Revenge attacks and violence against...