Oil prices edged lower on Monday on concerns that Hurricane Irma’s pounding of heavily populated areas of Florida could dent oil demand in the world’s top oil consuming nation. Losses were capped by weekend talks between Saudi Arabia’s oil minister and counterparts over a possible...

(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...