Turkey's parliament is kicking off a debate Monday on a set of draft constitutional amendments that would hand Recep Tayyip Erdogan's largely ceremonial presidency sweeping executive powers, and the possibility of serving two more five-year terms. Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics...

Egyptian officials say a suicide car bomber has rammed his vehicle into a security checkpoint outside a police building in northern Sinai, killing and wounding several people. The police and security officials say the attacker used a garbage truck packed with explosives in Monday's bombing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Yemen is today witnessing the arrival of a large number of Syrian students coming to study in Yemen. Syrians have been coming to student in Yemen since prior to the revolution, but their numbers have increased since the start of the Syrian revolution and the forced migration of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions, in statement posted online, said the nationwide ceasefire is 'void and null' as regime forces and allied Hezbollah militia extended their ground and aerial campaign on Wadi Barada valley, northwest the capital. The 9-day-old ceasefire agreement that...