(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed source said Syria's exiled opposition, the National Coalition, is to elect Riad Hijab, former Prime Minister, as a successor of Khaled Khoja this week. Hijab was appointed last month in Riyadh as the General Coordinator of the High Negotiation Committee that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 people, including 7 children, have been killed in Russia's vacuum missile attack on a border town with Turkey, activists said Friday. The 4-month-old Russian aerial campaign has targeted the town of Sarmada and the neighboring district of Bab al Hawa border...

Tunisia has declared a nationwide curfew after days of protests and rioting over jobs and economic conditions, the interior ministry announced . Protests over unemployment in the country, which started in the western Kasserine province, intensified and spread to other parts of the...

On New Years Eve in Cologne, Germany, a number of women said they were sexually harassed by a group of men that may have included some asylum seekers. Recent reports though show that Syrian refugees in Cologne helped protect an American woman from organized attacks. Hesham Ahmad Mohammad, 32,...