An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in jail without parole on Saturday in the retrial of a corruption case, although the trio is unlikely to go to jail again. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist for 30 years, and his...

Syrian government forces advanced Saturday towards the rebel-held town of Jisr al-Shughur, where around 250 army soldiers and their families are trapped in a hospital building, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government troops were now within two...

Prime Minister David Cameron sealed a surprise election win by persuading Britons to choose the security of modestly rising living standards over an implausible pretender many feared could become the puppet of Scottish nationalists. Blending the promise of "the good life"...

(Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abdul Salam Mustafa, representative of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Europe, explained in his talk to Zaman al-Wasl that People Protection Units (YPG) is the main Kurdish party that fights the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria,...