Shiite militia clashed with Yemen's army and fired on a convoy carrying the prime minister on Monday as pressure mounted on the embattled government of President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. The militiamen, known as Huthis, opened fire on the convoy carrying Prime Minister Khalid Bahah in the...

In the summer of 2004, a young jihadist in shackles and chains was walked by his captors slowly into the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. He was nervous as two American soldiers led him through three brightly-lit buildings and then a maze of wire corridors, into an open yard,...

By Abu Abdullah Al Hourani;   Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Period of electricity cut-off has increased in Damascus and countryside, because regime lost control on petrol fields and pipes, refineries and electricity generation...

A newspaper close to Syria's regime criticised new UN peace envoy Staffan De Mistura for the first time Sunday over his call for ceasefire zones to allow for aid deliveries. "De Mistura has been vested with a clear mission based on a solution to the crisis through negotiations...