Campaigning kicked off in Iran on Thursday ahead of next week's crucial parliamentary election at which conservatives are expected to win most seats after thousands of moderates and reformists were disqualified. The February 21 election comes after months of escalating tensions between Iran...

The Saudi-led coalition fighting Huthi rebels will put on trial military personnel suspected of being behind deadly air strikes on civilians in Yemen, where the UN has deplored horrific rights violations. Wednesday's announcement by coalition spokesman Turki al-Maliki is the first of its...

German judges Thursday sentenced a Syrian man to three and a half years in prison for crimes including posing with the head of a decapitated corpse in his home country. Identified only as Kassim A., the 34-year-old received one and a half years from the superior state court in Koblenz for...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Iman Layla, a displaced infant form Eastern Ghouta suburbs, died of cold in a makeshifts camp near northern Afrin city, medics said Thursday. Iman was suffering from a respiratory infection due to the cold winter that left the stranded refugees in a tragic...