(Zaman Al Wasl)- For two weeks, the northern city of Atareb has held a volunteer campaign by the “Volunteer to Build” team, to support teachers and provide them with teaching aid and equipment, in the absence of governmental support. Teacher Bahija Akoush, coordinator of the...

Iraq's rival parties were negotiating the contours of a new government on Monday, after the previous cabinet was brought down by a two-month protest movement demanding more deep-rooted change. After just over a year in power, premier Adel Abdel Mahdi stepped down last week after a dramatic...

Thirteen Pakistanis, including eight children, died when a fire swept through their makeshift dwellings on a farming estate in the Jordan Valley, Jordan's civil defence said Monday. There were three other injuries in the fire that broke out after midnight that initial signs showed could...

At least seven people were wounded in separate car bomb attacks in northern Syria on Thursday.  According to Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground, the attacks targeted the district centers of al-Bab and Afrin, injuring five people. The security forces suspect the attacks were...