Israeli ex-president Moshe Katsav, jailed for rape and released in December, has been denied his request to have the conditions of his parole lifted, an official said on Sunday. Katsav had appealed to current President Reuven Rivlin to have the terms scrapped after a parole board rejected...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The name of the teacher Walid Halaq appeared Zaman al-Wasl leaks as he was executed by a decision of the field court in Palmyra in 1982 on charges of belonging to the military wing of the Muslim Brotherhood. Halaq, born in 1954 in Aleppo, was arrested in February 1981...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Young volunteer Mohammed Deeb Abu Kifah was killed by silencer attack Saturday on several Syrian Civil Defense (SCD) Center in Sarmin in Idlib countryside. The attack was carried out by an unknown armed group infiltrated the Civil Defense Center in Sarmin, killing...

The Russian government has nominated former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a close friend of President Vladimir Putin, to join the board of Rosneft, the energy giant under Western sanctions. Schroeder was among seven nominees in a decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev...