Mixed messages from Washington have left Syrian Christians confused about the effect of U.S. restrictions on refugees and travelers from several Muslim-majority countries, with some seeing hope fading away. U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that put a four-month...

 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday extended his deadly drug war until the last day of his term in 2022, but conceded the police force acting as his frontline troops was "corrupt to the core". Thousands of people have died in the crackdown that began when Duterte took office...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  A Lebanese hospital on Sunday refused to hand over a body of Syrian refugee man died of cancer to his wife, saying $3500 must be paid to free the 'captive body', activists said. Ein Wazin hospital in the mountainous Chouf district refused to hand over the body of...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- Associated Press published a report on July 13, 2016 about initiatives in Israel to open the cases for thousands of disappeared children whose Jewish families migrated from Arabic states in the 1950s to the occupation state. There were claims at...