(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Asayish Militia, security arm of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) banned on Sunday administrative staff and teachers affiliated to the Education Ministry of the regime from entering schools located in areas under its control with the start of the new school year 2017-2018....

Russia is to send 175 de-mining engineers to defuse mines in Syria’s Deir al-Zor, Interfax news agency quoted Russia’s Defence Ministry as saying on Monday. The first detachment of 40 de-miners has already been deployed to Russia’s Hmeimim air base in Syria, the ministry said....

A prominent Saudi religious leader has been arrested, according to social media postings on Sunday, in what appears to be a crackdown on Islamists seen as critics of the conservative kingdom’s absolute rulers. Sheikh Salman al-Awdah, an influential cleric who was imprisoned from...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would meet U.S. President Donald Trump later this month during a visit to New York, where he will address the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 27. Netanyahu spoke to reporters accompanying him on a trip to Latin...