Until a few weeks ago, Saudi Arabia was riding high. Its regional policies, based on countering revolutionary fervour and containing Iran, appeared to be bearing fruit. Egypt’s army ousted the Islamist president, to plaudits and generous funding from Riyadh; the Syrian...

    Rebels in Damascus countryside have downed a reconnaissance aircraft  (portable by a parachute) for the first time, according to footage has surfaced on the internet .   Analysts assured that Assad's air force take into account the...

    Where delegations weighed how to respond to charges that the Assad regime had just committed the deadliest chemical weapons attack in August 21st in the country’s two-year civil war, new testimonies by field doctors to Zaman alwasl assured a dirty game was played-...

Fighter jets were preparing for scheduled take off when President Hollande took 'stunning' call from US telling him to hold fire French President Francois Hollande called off military strikes against Syria on 31 August following a phone call from the US President only hours...