U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Egypt on Sunday for the first time since the army toppled the country's first freely elected president on July 3, state news agency MENA said. It said the visit to Egypt, whose alliance with the United States has come under strain, would only...

    The Shiite Turn in Syria is in-depth study by the researcher Khalid Sindawi, Zaman Alwasl republishes this important paper which appeared   before in Volume 8 of   Current Trends in Islamist Ideology ,   published by Hudson Institute,...

    Hundreds of Syrians fleeing the violence and turmoil at home are being turned back by Jordan and other neighboring countries, Amnesty International said today in a new report that calls for urgent international support to increase humanitarian aid and resettlement to...

International powers are unlikely to meet their goal of convening peace talks on  Syria  in Geneva next month as differences emerge between Washington and Moscow over opposition representation, Arab and Western officials said. Failure of the main Syrian National Coalition to...