The World Health Organization should expand its donor base to better withstand the "shock" from planned deep budget cuts in Washington, Tedros Adhanom, the newly elected agency head, said Wednesday. A day after he became the first African to head the WHO, the former Ethiopian health minister...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ro’aa al-Hariri, 13-year-old, a Syrian girl living in Turkey managed to establish a free cultural library in the East Ghouta. The initiative came after Ro’aa provided sent many books to refugee camps in Syria and elsewhere to enable Syrian children to develop their reading...

Iraq's Interior Ministry says it has launched an investigation into allegations of human rights violations perpetrated by its forces fighting ISIS in Mosul. The allegations were first reported by Germany's Der Spiegel magazine last weekend. Read More: Unknown assailants kill FSA...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- On the evening of Sunday,  the regime focused its operations in the al-Waer neighborhood in the  central city Homs, announcing its control of the last rebel strongholds in the city of Homs, through a deal whose key contributor was Major-general...