An Afghan soldier shot dead two US soldiers and one US civilian on Saturday, the latest "insider attack" to shake efforts by the two armies to work together to defeat the Taliban insurgency. An Afghan policeman walks behind a US soldier serving with the International Security Assistance...

Zaman Alwasl are going to block its websites for 6 Hours next Sunday to express our concern about the ongoing threats of arresting and killing to our reporters and other colleagues on anti-state charges, simply for writing articles critical of the Syrian regime and the opposition, in step...
Russia has deployed a naval unit to the Mediterranean Sea, it said on Thursday, a move President Vladimir Putin said was to defend Russian security but which comes as Moscow faces off with the West over Syria. In what is Russia's first permanent naval deployment in the Mediterranean since...