(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is planning to evacuate the town of Deir-Khobiya in the countryside of Damascus and displace its people as part of the demographic changes planned around Damascus city, after finishing the compulsory displacement from the capital suburbs of Qudsaya, Daraya...

A long-awaited offensive to seize back the Iraqi city of Mosul after two years of Isis control has begun, the country’s prime minister has announced. In an address on state television, Iraq’s Haider al-Abadi said: “We have been battling Isis for more than two years. We started fighting...

A suicide bomber believed to be from the Islamic State militant group killed three people and injured at least 20 others in an attack on Sunday on an outpost manned by a Syrian rebel group at a refugee camp on the border between Syria and Jordan, a rebel official said. The attack targeted the...

Montenegro said it had foiled a plot by a group of Serbs who were planning to seize the prime minister and parliament and proclaim victory for the opposition after Sunday's tinderbox election. News of the arrest of 20 Serbs ratcheted up tensions in the small ex-Yugoslav state which were...