Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh is set to go on a multi-leg foreign tour on Saturday, his first since he was elected leader of the Palestinian resistance group in 2017, according to a Palestinian source on Saturday. Haniyeh is currently visiting Egypt for talks with Egyptian officials...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian storyteller, Rima al-Khattab, recounts in her first work, "Under the Olive Trees," the sorrow of the displaced in Syrian camps, their suffering and tears. The forty-two-story collection chronicles the stories of people who had left an impact on her. She narrates...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad on Thursday has appointed new police commander for Hama province after deadly clashes between security forces and pro-regime militia in the town of Salhab, local media outlets reported. Maj. Gen. Jassim al-Hamad, former director of the prison department...

In the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, without a cinema for 30 years, a few hundred people walk the red carpet to a rare film screening -- held on the street. The opening of the Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival on Wednesday evening had been expected to take place inside the Amer Cinema,...