Air raids hit near a Turkish military post in northwest Syria Wednesday, a war monitor said, after Ankara vowed to take necessary steps to protect its troops deployed across the border. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said warplanes fired at areas surrounding a Turkish...

South Korea on Wednesday slammed Japan for effectively downgrading Seoul's trade status and accused Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of treating the neighbour as an "adversary". The comments are the latest in a bitter tit-for-tat row stemming from a long-running diplomatic dispute over Japan's use...

After months of unrest, Sudan's newly-appointed prime minister is due on Wednesday to announce a cabinet that will be the first since veteran ruler Omar al-Bashir was deposed more than four months ago. Premier Abdalla Hamdok is set to name his key picks from a field put forward by the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Most merchants in Syria’s Damascus have been complaining of a recession hitting their stacked merchandise, a Syrian business website reported.  Some say it is the usual post-Eid al-Adha recession. However, others believe that this is due to the high cost of...