Countries that reject Syrian refugees because they are Muslims are fuelling Islamic State and other militant groups and contributing to the threat of terrorism, U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres said on Monday. "When people say they cannot receive Syrian refugees because they are Muslims,...

Yemen's warring parties are expected to announce a humanitarian ceasefire within days before U.N.-sponsored talks to end a civil war that has killed nearly 6,000 people, an official from President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's government said on Monday. The United Nations special...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ( Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad) - When we talk about Arabic media tycoons we recall the name of Al-Waleed bin Talal, Saleh Kamel and Naguib Sawiris, and others, but in Syria, the Ministry of information have enabled certain people to control the media industry and...

Turkey said on Monday it had a duty to protect its soldiers around the Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul in Iraq and that they were there simply on a training mission, after Baghdad ordered the immediate withdrawal of its latest deployment. Turkey sent hundreds of forces to...