(Politico)- The leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is likely still alive and hiding somewhere near the Iraq-Syria border, the commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militant group said Thursday. Army Lt. Gen. Steve Townsend, asked about the status of the...

 Israel on Wednesday backtracked from a decision to revoke the accreditation of an Al Jazeera journalist, saying he explained that comments he made last year did not amount to support for Palestinian violence. Elias Karram, an Arab citizen of Israel, had told a Turkish-based TV...

(Eqtsad)- The 14th Eid comes to people in the capital Damascus since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011. What is the situation of a simple Syrian citizen with limited income this holiday? The purchase of new clothes is one of the means of expressing the joy of Eid, which is...

Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for U.N. nuclear inspectors to visit its military bases as “merely a dream” as Washington reviews a 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and six world powers, including the United States. U.S. President Donald Trump has called the nuclear pact -...