At least 10 people were killed on Sunday when a fire swept through a fan factory near Bangladesh’s capital, police said, the second such accident in less than a week. Firefighters recovered 10 bodies as the fire ripped through the three-storey factory at Gazipur, on the outskirts of...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)-  One person was killed on Sunday when a landmine set off near the border town of Ras al-Ayn, local activists said.   Landmines were planted by the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the city, days before the Turkish forces and the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- After his novel "The Road to Zaatari" that sparked outrage in literary circles, the Syrian novelist Mohamed Fathi Al-Miqdad publishes a new book titled "Above the Earth", in which he attempts to capture all crucial and historical details of the revolution, in his own form of...

 Air pollution forced schools to close Sunday in parts of Iran including Tehran, as the capital lay under a thick cloud of smog considered hazardous to health. The pollution level in the capital was "unhealthy for sensitive groups" and officials warned the young, elderly and people...