Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) should reconsider their opposition to joining a new “grand coalition” with Angela Merkel’s conservatives because Europe needs a stable government in Berlin, a senior ally of the chancellor said on Thursday. Germany is facing the worst political...

By  Jamal Khashoggi When  Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen  erupted in March 2015, there was widespread Saudi popular support for it – including by me. Like other Saudi citizens, I was concerned about Iran’s sectarian expansionist policies, as its influence has extended...

Syrians in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta are so short of food that they are eating trash, fainting from hunger and forcing their children to eat on alternate days, the UN World Food Programme said in a report on Wednesday. Since September, approximately 174,500 people in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkis authorites opened a new branch of the Turkish Post Office (PTT) in al-Bab city, east of Aleppo, such a step marks more Turkish influence in opposition-held areas. According to Turkish media, PTT branch - the second branch in Syria - began to...