(Zaman Al Wasl)- Reconciliation talks have been suspended between the Russian army and the negation committee in Northern Homs and southern Hama, sources said Sunday. The Russian military, which brokers the evacuation and ceasefire deal in Syria, has suspended the Sunday's meeting...

Iranian police have arrested a former prosecutor known as the "torturer of Tehran," who faces a two-year prison sentence over the death of prisoners following 2009 protests, Iranian media reported Sunday. The official website of the judiciary, Mizanonline.com, said former Tehran...

Air strikes pounded an insurgent-held area near Damascus Sunday, footage broadcast by state TV stations showed, as the Syrian regime stepped up efforts to wipe out the insurgency's last foothold near the capital. Thick clouds of smoke rose from the al-Hajar al-Aswad district as the...

 Israel's defense minister said Sunday a Palestinian scientist shot dead in Malaysia was a rocket expert and "no saint", but dismissed suggestions by Hamas that Israel's Mossad spy agency assassinated him. Two men on a motorcycle fired 10 shots at Fadi al-Batsh, an engineering...