Saudi Arabia is striving to develop a homegrown defense industry but cutting reliance on foreign equipment will take years, the head of a major military development firm said Thursday. The kingdom is the world's third-biggest defense spender, but only two percent of that outlay is local....

Over 1.3 million Syrian refugees in the country are under the age of 18, the Interior Ministry has revealed Thursday. According to the figures collected by the Directorate General of Migration Management, 1,322,187 Syrian children currently live in Turkey. Turkey hosts the largest number...

The Egyptian president is defending the tough economic measures his government has undertaken, saying there was no other alternative in the face of deteriorating economy. Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi says that "structural reforms" are an imperative for Egypt and that the measures that have been...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad said that the Syrian media is corrupted and needs to be cleaned during his talk to al-Watan newspaper owned by his cousin Rami Makhlouf. The talk is to be published on Thursday. Bashar al-Assad’s statement in relation to the media comes after a long series...