More than 2,000 lawyers protested in Tunisia's capital on Tuesday against a draft budget for 2017 stipulating a new tax for their profession, AFP reporters said. "With our souls and our blood, we will defend the lawyer's profession!" chanted protesters in black court robes after a silent...

 A court in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday sentenced 15 people to death and several others to prison terms in a case involving an alleged Iranian spy cell, a sign of the continuing tension between the two Mideast powers. A Riyadh criminal court handed down its ruling to the 32 people who were...

The House passed a defense bill last week that included language giving the incoming Trump administration the authority to send shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to rebel groups fighting in Syria. While the bill provides certain restrictions for transferring the controversial weapons,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Education Directorate in rebel-held Idlib province has suspended teaching in the schools for three days as the regime and Russian warplanes wage deadly aerial bombing that killed about 70 people in the past 4 days, including students. The volunteer Civil Defense group...