Russia's sports minister Tuesday said he hoped to see tennis star Maria Sharapova back on court after she failed a dope test at the Australian Open. "I feel sorry for Masha. I hope that we will see her back on court and we are prepared to support her," minister Vitaly Mutko told state-run TASS...

Turkish authorities on Saturday detained at least two human traffickers after they shuttled some 120 Syrian refugees to the Aegean coast in a sign Turkey may be stepping up efforts to curb the flow of migrants to Europe. Gendarmes stopped the group, mostly made up of women and...

Veteran Sudan Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, one of the fiercest critics of President Omar al-Bashir's government, died of a heart attack on Saturday aged 84, officials said. "The Islamist intellectual Hassan al-Turabi has died," the state broadcaster reported. It interrupted its...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The intelligence and criminal archive of 4.2 million warrants which Zaman Al Wasl obtains, shows 12 Syrian residents have forst name as “Hafez al-Assad” and 7 others carried first name of “Bassel al-Assad”, Hafez’s eldest son, added to them...