Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has apologized to Russian leader Vladimir Putin over last year's shooting down of a Russian air force jet by Turkey's military, the Kremlin said on Monday, opening the way for Russia to lift economic sanctions. The Russian jet was shot down, with...

Syrian student Ali Khaled Stouf has to walk down several steps into a hole in the ground to get inside his school -- a cave. There for four hours each morning, he studies subjects like Arabic, English, maths and religion, sitting on a rug with dozens of children in the underground space in...

Four suicide bombers killed at least five people and wounded 19 more in a series of attacks in a Lebanese Christian village at the border with Syria on Monday, the latest violent spillover of the five-year-old Syrian war into Lebanon. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the...

Translation by Yusra  Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Monday have killed 10 regime troops in missile attacks hit their vehicles in Jabal al-Akrad in Latakia province, activists said. Rebels hit the troop carriers near Ayn Alqantara district in Jabal al-Akrd with Tow...