(Zaman al-Wasl) Hamdi Daham al-Jarba, the co-governor of the self-administrated Kurdish al-Jazira canton, directed a speech to the head of the Bashar al-Assad regime to deny the Kurdish administration’s intention to secede, and considering the invitation to bring down the regime an invitation...

Pope Francis said a Mass on Sunday for the miniscule Catholic community in Shi'ite Muslim Azerbaijan, urging the "precious little flock" to keep the faith and paying tribute to those persecuted during the Soviet era. The oil and gas-rich nation of about 9 million people bordering on Russia,...

Russian warplanes and their Syrian government allies battered rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo on Saturday, and rebels and aid workers accused them of destroying one of the city's main hospitals and killing at least two patients. M10, the city's main trauma hospital, in eastern Aleppo,...

Turkey's parliament passed a motion on Saturday to extend a mandate that allows military action against terror organizations in neighboring Syria and Iraq for one more year.  The parliament convened on Saturday, on the first day of a new parliamentary session to discuss the current...