(Zaman Al Wasl)- The former spokesman for Jaysh al-Islam on Friday has cut his links with the powerful Islamist group that operates in Eastern Ghouta suburbs after ten months since his resignation as spokesman after a controversial interview with an Israeli think received considerable...

Moroccan police firing water cannon clashed with demonstrators in a provincial town on Friday as protests against alleged corruption and abuses of power continued in the most serious unrest since the 2011 Arab Spring upheaval. A Reuters reporter saw protesters tossing rocks and trash towards...

Syria is unlikely to see a major "Marshall Plan" for reconstruction as peace remains elusive despite hundreds of thousands more civilians possibly returning to their homes, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. ICRC President Peter Maurer, speaking after his fifth...

Iraqi forces have recaptured around half of two neighborhoods in west Mosul that are among the targets of a broad offensive against militants launched last week, officers said on Friday. Iraqi security forces are more than seven months into a massive operation to retake Mosul from ISIS,...