Kidnappers in southern Syria have released a boy they had held for over three months after his family paid ransom, state media reported Sunday. The case of eight-year-old Fawaz Quteifan shocked Syrians for weeks after his kidnappers released a video showing him screaming while being whipped...

From his small music shop on Beirut’s Hamra Street, Michel Eid witnessed the rise and fall of Lebanon through the changing fortunes of this famed boulevard for more than 60 years. Hamra Street represented everything that was glamorous about Beirut in the 1960s and 1970s, with Lebanon’s...

  Infighting between Turkish-allied factions in the northern Syrian city of Afrin has left one fighter killed and another wounded, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday.   The clash took place between Ahrar al-Sham movement and al-Hamza Division in Korkan village near Afrin...

Amman- A number of smugglers were killed and others injured as they attempted to infiltrate and smuggle drugs and firearms into the Kingdom from the Syrian territory on Friday, a source at the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) said on Saturday. Two of the bodies of the smugglers who were...