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Assad's army arrests top general over corruption claims

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian military intelligence has arrested M. General Sulaiman al-Salama, head of the army's supplies directorate, over corruption allegations, the second top general to be arrested in a month, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Corruption has never been a stranger to...

U.S.-led airstrikes kill scores in Raqqa: activists

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 50 civilians on Wednesday in Raqqa city, half of which is still held by ISIS, activists and local monitoring group said.  Most of the casualties fell in Albusrarya neighborhood after deadly aerial bombing by the...

Armed groups in western Libya attack activists

Human Rights Watch said that activists in western Libya were physically attacked and threatened by armed groups, some affiliated with U.N.-backed government based in the country's capital, Tripoli. The statement by the New York-based watchdog on Thursday says that Libyan "authorities seem...