(Reuters) - French anti-terrorist police surrounded a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after at least one person was taken hostage in a print works by two men believed to have carried out an attack on a Paris satirical journal. Earlier, police had chased a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two newborn babies passed away on Friday due to the snow storm sweeping Syria and to the lack of foods and medicines in rebel-held city of Douma, Syria Human Rights Committee reported. The twins Abdul Rahman and Fatema have died of bad weather condition as the...

  (Reuters) - Syria's Western-backed political opposition group, the National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, has elected a new presidential committee and a president widely seen as free of links to any of the body's international sponsors. Despite...

  Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent Syrian Army defector killed on Sunday when an explosive device was detonated near his car in Atemh town on the Turkish border. Mohib Omar al-Jadaan was a Colonel pilot in Syrian air...