Amazon.com (AMZN.O) has agreed to buy Middle East online retailer Souq.com, thwarting a last minute bid by Dubai billionaire Mohamed Alabbar's Emaar Malls EMAA.DU. The value and terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition is expected to close in 2017, according to a joint statement...

Syrian rebels who drove Islamic State from the town of al-Bab in northwest Syria this year discovered an extensive network of tunnels dug by militants as part of their defenses, a tactic that has slowed the military campaign against them. "The tunnels complicated the fighting a lot and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Most Syrians, if not all, look at the Iranians who fight on the Syrian soil with hostility and hatred, considering that Iranians are of one color and class, a type that fights and supports the Syrian regime and supplies it with various means to kill, displace and destroy. But...

Ivanka Trump is planning a trip to Germany to attend a summit on the economic empowerment of women, a senior administration official says. The first daughter was invited by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during Merkel's recent White House visit, said the official, who was not authorized to...