(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Failaq al-Rahman fighters began Sunday to leave Douma, their last bastion in eastern Ghouta to head to northern Idlib province as negotiations with Jaish al-Islam still underway, regime media said. The move is the first such withdrawal of Failaq al-Rahman...

A Kuwaiti court Sunday sentenced in absentia a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging over the murder of a Filipina maid, a judicial source said. The court issued the sentence in the first hearing in the case of Joanna Demafelis, the 29-year-old maid whose body was found...

Pope Francis celebrated Easter mass under tight security and a sunny sky Sunday in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in a flower-bedecked St Peter's Square. Under a longstanding tradition, the Netherlands donated some 50,000 tulips, daffodils, roses and orchids for the...

Iraq exported 3.453 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from its southern ports in March, slightly above the February average, the oil ministry said Sunday. Iraq's exports from the ports, managed by the central government in Baghdad, averaged 3.426 million bpd in February, down...