Arab Bank Plc has agreed to settle litigation brought by hundreds of Americans who accused it of facilitating militant attacks in Israel, nearly a year after a U.S. jury found the bank liable. The settlement was confirmed on Friday by Michael Elsner, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, and a...

(By Abdullah al-Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Fouad Aliko, member of the Political Committee in the Syrian National Coalition for revolutionary Forces and Opposition, a member of the Kurdish national Council, talked to Zaman al-Wasl about the internal differences in the Kurdish...

  (NOW)- A treasure trove of documents leaked from multinational bank HSBC’s Swiss subsidiary have revealed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s powerful cousin Rami Makhlouf was involved in shady business dealings with an Israeli national.   Alaraby Aljadeed on...

The U.S. bombing campaign against Islamic State rebels surged in July as Kurdish fighters pushed into territory held by the militant group in Syria and Iraqi forces prepared an offensive to retake strategic northwestern cities, Pentagon figures showed. The U.S. military spent an average of $4.6...