Pope Francis Sunday urged the world community to make every effort to revive the Syrian peace talks and appealed for unstinting generosity for civilians fleeing the conflict. "I appeal to the international community to spare no effort to urgently bring parties back to the negotiating table,"...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish PYD's key unit, Asayish militia, seized13 houses in Alsiahi and Gharbi neighborhoods of the northeastern city of Qamishli, saying the move is protect properties of expatriates and migrants, activists said this week. Owners abroad and...

Syrian regime's foreign minister warned Saturday that Saudi or other foreign troops entering his country would "return home in wooden coffins" and asserted that recent military advances put his government "on track" to end the five-year-old civil war. Walid al-Moallem's comments capped a week...

Tunisia's defense minister has visited an anti-jihadi fence that's being built on the country's border with Libya to stop Islamist militants from entering Tunisian territory. Defense Minister Farhat Horchani inspected the first completed part of the 196-kilometer (122-mile) fence Saturday,...