Scores of Bangladeshi women have been lured with the promise of a good job in the Middle East and then trafficked to war-torn Syria, where they are forced into domestic or sex work, a senior Bangladeshi police official said. The head of a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) - an elite squad of the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- “Cessation of Hostilities” agreement as part of a Russian- U.S. plan has been put in place last Saturday excluding areas controlled by the Islamic State and Nusra Front - an al Qaeda affiliate. People in areas under the Islamic State’s control...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has accused President Bashar al-Assad's regime of obstructing deliveries of humanitarian aid in Syria, calling on it to show "some measure of decency" during the truce there. Speaking at a media conference in Washington with his German counterpart Monday,...

Defense ministers from the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State militant group discussed the possibility of a Syrian ground incursion two weeks ago but they have not made a decision, an aide to Saudi Arabia's defense minister said on Monday. "It was discussed two weeks ago in...