Russia feels increasingly under threat from developments in the Middle East and appears to be serious about cooperating with western countries to resolve the war in Syria, Germany's foreign minister said Sunday. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are traditionally...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Statistics showed that Bashar al-Assad's war on Syrian people has caused permanent disability for about 300 thousand Syrians, half of them children under 16 years old. Samira Yousuf, 4-year-old girl from Taldo, the biggest town in al Hola city...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq Istanbul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The bright side Syrian refugee crisis has showed can be the overwhelming solidarity of human rights advocates, intellectuals, artists and average people in many European states, Syrian migrants voiced admiration. Mattia Campo...

Malian special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen took 170 people including many foreigners hostage in the capital of the former French colony, which has been battling rebels allied to al Qaeda for several years. "They've penetrated inside the hotel....