Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was launching a separate camera-first messaging app, “Threads”, for its photo-sharing platform Instagram, stepping up the company’s social media war with smaller rival Snapchat. The launch of the app, which like Snapchat and Instagram is centered...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian security has approved the return of 3594 displaced people from al-Qusayr to their town after submitting their names to the relevant committees in Homs. The lists, obtained by Zaman al-Wasl, showed that those mentioned were currently in the regime's control...

One year on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkey has been striving to clarify the brutal murder of the columnist last fall by Saudi operatives in the Kingdom’s Istanbul Consulate. Since Oct. 2, 2018 when Khashoggi entered Saudi consulate and never heard from again,...

With the burial in Saudi exile Saturday of former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia is turning the page on more than two decades of nepotism and repression with a large dose of indifference. Forced out of Tunisia on January 14, 2011, by weeks of popular outrage spurred by the...