Russia feels increasingly under threat from developments in the Middle East and appears to be serious about cooperating with western countries to resolve the war in Syria, Germany's foreign minister said Sunday. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are traditionally...

The Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee this weekend announced that Moscow had approved the sale of Russian arms to the war-torn country. Notably, the move comes one month after the Iraqi government gave Russia the green light to target convoys sent into Iraqi territory from...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq Istanbul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The bright side Syrian refugee crisis has showed can be the overwhelming solidarity of human rights advocates, intellectuals, artists and average people in many European states, Syrian migrants voiced admiration. Mattia Campo...

Turkish police have detained a Belgian man of Moroccan origin on suspicion that he scouted out the target sites for Islamic State in attacks that killed 129 people in Paris a week ago, the Dogan news agency said on Saturday. Ahmet Dahmani, 26, was detained at a luxury hotel in the...