Freshman director A.B. Shawky said piecing together financing for a feel-good road movie about an Egyptian leper and his orphan friend was the least of his troubles getting his film to Cannes. The newcomer’s debut feature “Yomeddine” is going toe-to-toe with his ex-professor Spike Lee and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian Air Force is depending on three military airports in its aerial offensive on the opposition areas in Homs and Hama provinces. More than 20 warplanes have been carrying out raids from the well-known desert-based T-4 airport that runs by Iran,...

 By Hassan Hassan , Michael Weiss (The Daily Beast)- “We’re knocking the hell out of ISIS. We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon. Let the other people take care of it now.” So spoke the president of the United States in Richfield, Ohio on...

Two British members of Daesh (ISIS) who allegedly belonged to a cell notorious for the beheading of hostages in northern Syria say that revoking their citizenship denies them a fair trial. The two men are thought to be among four members of the Daesh cell dubbed "The Beatles" that are...