More than 200,000 men, women and children fled their homes in northwest Syria in buses, trucks and cars in recent weeks, amid intense air and ground bombardment by government forces, a Syrian relief group estimated on Wednesday. Government forces have been bombarding southern and...

Huge protests in India against a citizenship law seen by many as anti-Muslim have wrong-footed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and sent his Hindu nationalist party scrambling to douse the anger. In Modi’s biggest challenge since taking office in 2014, hundreds of thousands have rallied...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-based Syrian activist Remy Hassoun has been on a rolling hunger strike to protest the Syrian regime and Russia's continuing offensive on northern Idlib province that left 85 people dead and displaced over 260,000 people in two weeks....

Outgoing Education Minister Qusay al-Suhail on Wednesday turned down nomination to be Iraq's new prime minister.  In a letter to his al-Bina coalition, al-Suhail said conditions "were not favorable" for his nomination to the post. The coalition, which is close to Iran, has...