Reporting by Abdullah ِAl Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nizar al-Heraki, Coalition's Envoy to Qatar detailed to Zaman al-Wasl the effort done to obtain a the power to renew Syrians’ expired passports, after the regime...

(Reuters) - Heavily armed Australian police stormed a Sydney cafe on Tuesday and freed a number of hostages being held there at gunpoint, in a dramatic end to a 16-hour siege in which three people were killed and four wounded. New South Wales police said two men, aged 34 and...

  (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers threw their weight behind a U.N. plan for a truce in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, saying it offered a glimmer of hope for a political solution to the three-and-a-half year old civil war. The EU also said it...

Beirut (AFP) - The Syrian army on Monday lost control of two strategic bases in the northwestern province of Idlib to coordinated assaults by Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Al-Nusra Front, an Al-Qaeda...