At least 1200 of Syrian inmates at a main prison in the city of Hama rioted on Friday in a protest against jail conditions and harsh sentences, a monitor and rights activists said on Friday. The roit came to an end, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources, after...

Arab Bank Plc has agreed to settle litigation brought by hundreds of Americans who accused it of facilitating militant attacks in Israel, nearly a year after a U.S. jury found the bank liable. The settlement was confirmed on Friday by Michael Elsner, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, and a...

(By Abdullah al-Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Fouad Aliko, member of the Political Committee in the Syrian National Coalition for revolutionary Forces and Opposition, a member of the Kurdish national Council, talked to Zaman al-Wasl about the internal differences in the Kurdish...

  (NOW)- A treasure trove of documents leaked from multinational bank HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary have revealed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s powerful cousin Rami Makhlouf was involved in shady business dealings with an Israeli national.   Alaraby Aljadeed on...