Pakistani gangsters on Thursday killed six policemen and took hostage 24 people, including police, during a raid to clear an island hideout in the south of prosperous Punjab province, authorities said. The operation to flush out the gangsters entered its ninth day as 1,600 security officials,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Parts of northern Hasaka province have been hit with flooding in the past two days, forcing evacuations and causing damage in houses and bridges, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Activists Omar al-Shami said people of Tel al-Shayer, Haddaj and al-Tarraf villages have been...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's speech on Wednesday was meant to staunch uproar over the transfer of two islands to Saudi Arabia, but his reprimand to an audience member ignited a furor over free speech. Parliamentarians, ministers and senior editors were invited to the...

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The chief of opposition's High Negotiations Committee assured that discussing the transitional ruling body with full executive powers and not a participatory government under Bashar al-Assad is the opposition's main...