Eight months after a devastating fire ravaged the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, engineers are preparing for a crucial but complicated step in the herculean restoration effort: removing a mound of scaffolding mangled in the blaze. Within weeks, they are set to embark on the most...

At least 14 people died Friday when a passenger plane carrying 100 people crashed into a house shortly after takeoff from Kazakhstan's largest city, authorities said. The Bek Air plane "fell off the radar" minutes after it took off from Almaty airport at 7.05 am (01:05 GMT) on its way to the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian National Army has arrested 15 members of Al-Hamza Division, key unit in the Turkish-backed forces, who threatened Kurdish detainees with sexual assault in the border town of Ras al-Ayn northern Syria, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. A former...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Dash (ISIS) militants and two US-backed fighters were killed Thursday in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Two of Daesh assailants were killed in fire exchange with fighters of Deir Ezzor Council, key unit in the Syrian...