The Washington Post stepped up a campaign for the release of its jailed reporter in Iran, Jason Rezaian, on Wednesday, appealing to the U.N. Human Rights Council to help secure his release after a year of what it called "arbitrary" detention. The newspaper filed a petition with...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  Zaman al-Wasl has obtained a new list of 958 Syrian army officers who were killed during the Syrian conflict. The list includes the date of death with circumstances behind. There was 70 officers among the killed members ranged between the highest rank,...

What may be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday took two checkpoints in Zabadani city after fierce clashes with Syrian regime army and its allied Shiite militia Hezbollah, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Anas al-Qalamouni said rebels had seized control of al-Moura and al-Karazat checkpoints as well...