Egypt's army chief has indicated that he may run for president in elections slated for later this year, according to state media. General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who led a military coup last July to depose the country's first democratically-elected leader, Mohamed Morsi, said on Saturday...

Syria’s key opposition leader will meet Russian Foreign Minister in Paris,  on January 13 , in the  runup to the Geneva 2 conference on Syria,  source told Zaman Alwasl. The Syrian National Coalition's top representatives - President Ahmad al-Jarba and...

27 people have been killed by shelling of forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the embattled neighborhood of Waer in Homs city, with possibility to increase the death toll, activists reported. Two days ago, Assad forces killed dozens of rebel fighters who tried to break an army siege...

Over the past two years, Hussein witnessed the horrors of war in his hometown of Damascus. But the most frightening moment of his life did not come in Syria. Rather, it was during a stormy night in the Mediterranean Sea, when the small fishing boat carrying him and 15 other Syrians...