The recent admission into hospital of Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdelaziz has raised questions about the political succession in the oil-rich Gulf state. The 90-year-old ruler has been diagnosed with pneumonitis, making it necessary for hospital doctors to provide him with a tube to...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The constituent conference for the National Alliance for revolutionary forces was held this Saturday in the border town of Reyhanlı in Turkish Hatay province. Tension has overshadowed the founding...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey and United States to sign a memorandum of understanding in January to set the training program of Syrian moderate rebels, Turkish Anadolu Agency said. The program will allow 15,000 Syrian fighters to follow military trainings in...

(Reuters) - The new head of Syria's Western-backed political opposition cast doubt on Monday on whether members of his group would attend talks in Russia this month aimed at finding a solution to the nearly four-year Syrian conflict. Moscow, one of President Bashar al-Assad's...