The highway that links the Syrian capital with the northern city of Aleppo is open for public use for the first time in nearly eight years after government forces recently captured parts of it that had been held by insurgents, the transportation minister said Saturday. The reopening...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish soldier was killed on Saturday in an attack by Syrian regime forces in the northern Idlib region, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Twitter. Turkey retaliated to the attack with full force and 21 regime targets were heavily hit and destroyed, said the...

 Israeli forces shot and killed a suspect in Jerusalem's occupied Old City Saturday after he approached officers posted near one of the gates armed with a knife, police said. Police did not immediately release further details on the identity of the suspect. "At approximately 11 am...

French state-owned energy giant EDF on Saturday began shutting down the country's oldest nuclear power plant after 43 years in operation. EDF said it had disconnected one of two reactors at Fessenheim, along the Rhine near France's eastern border with Germany and Switzerland, at 2:00 am...