Major retailers in Lebanon announced Thursday they will temporarily shut down in the face of an increasingly volatile currency market and their inability to set prices while the Lebanese pound plunges against the dollar. Later in the day, owners of the businesses rallied in central Beirut...

 Criticized for inaction, President Donald Trump and top officials stepped up their defense of the administration's response to intelligence assessments that Russia offered bounties for killing US troops in Afghanistan. Trump's national security adviser said he had prepared a list of...

US folk and rock legend Bob Dylan released his first album of original songs in eight years on Friday with the ten-track "Rough and Rowdy Ways." Dylan's 39th studio album, which comes 58 years after his first, features a 17-minute ballad about the assassination of John F Kennedy, as well as...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Militant Tahrir al-Sham group has badly beaten and abused 13 journalists, including Zaman al-Wals reporter, who were covering a joint Turkish-Russian patrol in northern Idlib province on Wednesday. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the former...