(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said Ammar Saati, senior aide of Bashar al-Assad and the close friend of his brother Maher , is the founder of al-Ba'ath Brigades, key unit in the Fifth legion, paramilitary group affiliated to the regime army. Alwyat al-Ba'ath militia was formed in...

Yemeni rebels have abducted a dozen local staff working for the Norwegian Refugee Council in the Red Sea district of Hodeida, a minister and local sources said Monday. Local sources told AFP the employees, all Yemeni citizens, were taken in a Thursday raid over accusations they had accepted...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was the latest in a trio of high-ranking Trump emissaries to tell European allies in person that the United States will steadfastly support NATO and demand that Russia honor its commitments to end fighting in Ukraine. Some European leaders, however, remain...

Kuwait's supreme court on Sunday sentenced a top bureaucrat to 10 years in jail for joining and fighting with ISIS in Syria and Iraq. The court also fined the unnamed Kuwaiti national, who was a top official at the Kuwait municipality, $30,000 and convicted him of calling other people to...