On the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington in March, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a private meeting with Israel's energy minister, Yuval Steinitz. It was the highest level contact between Israel and Turkey since diplomatic relations broke down six years ago...

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl archive of Islamic State registration forms revealed more data regarding ISIS members from a Bahraini family and were appointed to high profile posts; one of them is Ali al-Binali nicknamed as Abu Musab al-Bahraini killed two days...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Obaid, a Christian man announced his adoption to Islam in the beginning of the Syrian revolution, to share people in his village of Qusayr, the trip of suffering which has started with losing everything, then displacement ending up as a refugee...

 The opposition-held sector of Syria's divided city of Aleppo has been cut off from the outside world in recent days by an escalation of air and artillery strikes on the only road in, putting hundreds of thousands of people under effective siege. A government campaign to fully capture...