Writing by Malek Eqab; Translation by Rana Abdul  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful air force Division 22 is the newly in-charge army unit for bombing the stricken city of Aleppo, source told Zaman al-Wasl as regime's devastating campaign killed 250 people and reduced huge parts of the city to...

A police officer was killed and 13 people, including nine police officers, were wounded in a car bomb attack at a police headquarters in Turkey's Gaziantep, one of two attacks on Sunday, security sources and the provincial governor said. Footage from CNN Turk broadcaster showed pieces of a...

Iranians lined up outside polling stations on Friday to vote in a second round of parliamentary elections, state TV reported, with allies of President Hassan Rouhani seeking to wrest more seats from hardliners. Rouhani's moderate and centrist allies made major gains in Feb. 26 elections to...

An Egyptian court has sentenced 11 men accused of homosexuality to jail terms of between three and 12 years, legal sources said. The defendants were arrested in a flat in the leafy Cairo suburb of Agouza in September last year. The court convicted them of "debauchery and incitement to...