Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died on Tuesday in the United States, his spokesman told Egyptian state TV. Zewail, who was 70 and a member of the...
A Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory said on Tuesday a helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas overnight on a town close to where a Russian military helicopter was shot down hours earlier. A spokesman for Syria Civil Defence told Reuters that 33 people, mostly women and...
(Zaman al-Wasl)- A woman was burned in Palmyra city by Iraqi shiite militias fighting in support of Bashar al-Assad, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Sources said that whoever returned to Palmyra returned under pressure of hard conditions of displacement or under threat clarfiying that the woman...
The U.S. administration sought on Friday to contain fallout from a leaked internal memo critical of its Syria policy, but showed no sign it was willing to consider military strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces called for in the letter signed by dozens of American...
