Saudi Arabia aims to start issuing tourist visas to foreigners next year, a senior Saudi official told CNN, as the government seeks to open up the conservative kingdom and find new sources of revenue to diversify its economy. At present, foreigners travelling to Saudi Arabia are largely...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two infants on Monday have lost their lives due to a rainstorm hitting the opposition-held Idlib province amid lack of basic needs, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. Wael Tuaima, 25-day-old, and Yahya al-Hassoun 8-day-old, have lost their lives died as a result of the severe...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would prefer a new election to ruling with a minority after talks on forming a three-way coalition failed overnight, but Germany’s president told parties they owed it to voters to try to form a government. The major obstacle to a three-way deal was...

President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, a designation that allows the United States to impose more sanctions and risks inflaming tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and missile programs. The Republican president, who has...