Russian warplanes attacked rebel-held areas in northern Syria for the first time in weeks Sunday, as Syrian officials said more than 100 people were treated at hospitals for a suspected poison gas attack in the northern city of Aleppo that Damascus and Moscow blamed on rebels. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Raed al-Fares and Hamoud Junaid, two Syrian pro-democracy activists and citizen journalists, were shot dead Friday by Syria's former al-Qaeda branch in the village of Kafrabel in northern Idlib province.  Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance led by formerly-known...

Loss-making South African arms maker Denel has a problem as it fights to survive. Its potential savior is Saudi Arabia, now drawing fierce criticism following the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. But after being mismanaged for years and tainted by a far-reaching influence-peddling...

The value of Bitcoin plummeted 12 percent Monday to below $5,000 for the first time since October 2017. The world's largest cryptocurrency fell as low as $4,891, the lowest level in more than a year, according to data from CoinDesk. With losses exceeding 22 percent in the last...