KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — After nearly 20 years, the U.S. military left Bagram Airfield, the epicenter of its war to oust the Taliban and hunt down the al-Qaida perpetrators of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, two U.S. officials said Friday. The airfield was handed over to the...

France warned Russia on Thursday that if humanitarian aid deliveries are allowed only across conflict lines within Syria -- and not from neighboring countries -- Western nations which provide almost all the money will stop the funding. France’s U.N. Ambassador Nicolas De Riviere, the...

The former assistant director general of the army-run scientific and research studies has died in suspicious circumstances, weeks after his demand to leave Syria to visit his relatives in one of the EU countries, source told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday   Dr. Salam Yussef Tohme, 70, was in good...

KARAK, Jordan (AP) — Jordan has drawn a curtain of secrecy on the unprecedented public rift within its royal family, but the social tensions laid bare by the palace drama that unfolded in April — particularly the economic despair of its influential tribes — can be seen everywhere....