A senior official in Yemen's embattled government Thursday accused a southern separatist leader of "fomenting sedition" after his forces clashed with Yemeni troops near the presidential palace in Aden, as concerns rose about a new front in the country's devastating civil war. In a...

In the Saudi city of Mecca, dotted with fast food eateries and stalls selling Chinese-made trinkets, vendors are ready to cash in on the annual hajj pilgrimage. "Business is going very well," said Faisal Addais from his stall close to the Grand Mosque -- Islam's holiest site. "The...

Regime forces captured two villages from jihadists and allied rebels in northwest Syria on Thursday following deadly clashes, days after ditching a ceasefire for the area, a war monitor said. The villages of Al-Sakhr and Al-Jaysat in Hama province came under regime control, the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Arabic mare was fitted with prosthetic limb by local veterinarians in the northern town of Atareb after being wounded in regime shelling three months ago. The leg of the 4-month-old 'Sham al-Agha' horse was amputated in the regime bombing on the western...