( The New Arab )- Yemen's cholera epidemic has killed 1,992 people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday, with north-western province of Hajjah and the Red Sea port city of Hodeida being particulary hit-hard by the waterborne disease. It added that 419,804 suspected cases of the...

Russia's FSB security agency said Friday it had detained seven nationals from Central Asia who were "preparing terrorist attacks" in Saint Petersburg, which suffered a metro bombing in April 2017. Those held were suspected of planning to hit "the railway system and major public gathering...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighting broke out east of Damascus between rebel and regime forces on Wednesday for the first time since both sides declared a ceasefire at the weekend, a war monitor said, with air strikes also hitting the besieged enclave, leaving a newborn killed. Air strikes...

Israel has shifted from low-key humanitarian aid for Syrian civil war victims into a hearts-and-minds campaign billed as fostering new friends across a frontier that has been hostile for decades. Under a year-old expanded relief project disclosed to media this week, groups of Syrians have...