(Reuters) - Western and Arab powers that are have deployed air strikes to prevent the Syrian town of Kobani falling to Islamic State must be ready to help another Kurdish enclave that is also surrounded by Islamist fighters, the local leader said on Friday. Kobani has been...

(Reuters) - Yemen's president has announced a new cabinet including members of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi group that captured the capital Sanaa in September, state media said on Friday, in a move that could help end a crippling standoff in the Arab nation. Under a power-sharing...

By Abu Abdullah Al Hourani;   Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Period of electricity cut-off has increased in Damascus and countryside, because regime lost control on petrol fields and pipes, refineries and electricity generation...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- One of Basher al-Assad’s close relatives was killed on Thursday when Islamist rebels seized control of strategic Sheikh Miskeen city in Daraa province, south Syria, activists said Aktah Ibrahim Shalish is the cousin of...