The Trump administration imposed sanctions on 13 senior Venezuelan officials as the country's opposition launched a two-day strike on Wednesday, heaping pressure on unpopular President Nicolas Maduro to scrap plans for a controversial new congress. Venezuela's long-time ideological foe the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Directorate of Education of the opposiiton Interim Government in Damascus suburbs is trying to find effective solutions to the negative effects of school-aged children dropouts which has spread widely throughout the Eastern Ghouta. The director of education in the...

President Nicolas Maduro's adversaries are to stage a two-day national strike from Wednesday in a final push to pressure him into abandoning a weekend election for a super-congress they say will institutionalize autocracy in Venezuela. Millions participated in a 24-hour shutdown last week,...

A senior Kurdish official says the U.S. role in the fight against Daesh (ISIS) militants in Syria's Raqqa must not end with the liberation of the city but continue as a guarantor of its future stability. Ilham Ahmed says the Kurdish-led effort to secure the city after liberation needs U.S....