Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk on Thursday won the 2018 Nobel Literature Prize, which was delayed over a sexual harassment scandal, while Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke took the 2019 award, the Swedish Academy said. Tokarczuk, 57, considered the most talented Polish novelist of...

Much like in the U.S., the public in Russia is also growing weary of ongoing conflicts and the prolonged involvement of their armed forces abroad. Russia launched its operations in Syria on Sept. 30, 2015. According to a recent survey conducted by Levada Centre, a Russian polling NGO,...

The Turkish lira weakened against the dollar Thursday as investors fretted about negative international reaction to a ground operation launched by Turkish troops against the Kurdish militia in northeast Syria overnight. The lira weakened to 5.88 against dollar from a close of 5.8740 a day...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Participants in the Refugees' Rights Defenders initiative called for stopping the procedures of forcible deportation of refugees to Syria due to its violation of Article 3 of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which...