Syria's parliament on Wednesday ratified a bill handing management of the country's largest port to a Russian firm for 49 years, state media said. A deal between Damascus and the Russian company Stroytransgaz for the management, expansion and operation of Tartus port was first signed in...

Palestinians urged Egypt and Jordan Wednesday to reconsider their attendance at a U.S.-led conference on June 25-26 in Bahrain, voicing concern it would weaken any Arab opposition to Washington's coming peace plan. The United States has billed the gathering as a workshop to boost the...

A Yemeni rebel missile attack on an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia wounded 26 civilians on Wednesday, drawing promises of "stern action" from the Saudi-led coalition fighting the rebels. Yemen's Huthi rebels, who have faced persistent coalition bombing since March 2015 that has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of Syrian refugees held a memorial service for martyr Abdel-Basset al-Sarout in the German city of Dortmund who was killed on Saturday by the regime forces in northwestern Hama province. The participants considered that Sarout’s spirit will not leave the...