A court sentenced 11 men to death on Tuesday for their part in Egypt's worst violence at a soccer stadium, in which more than 70 fans were killed in 2012. Many of the dead were crushed when panicked fans tried to escape from the Port Said stadium after a post-match pitch invasion...

Rebel fighters captured a major base from the Syrian army in the south of the country on Tuesday, rebels and a monitoring group said, a setback for President Bashar al-Assad reflecting the mounting pressure on him after recent losses elsewhere. Syrian officials could not immediately be reached...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Details about the battle of Palmyra in which the Islamic State (ISIS) controlled the city on May 20 are published for the first time. Zaman al-Wasl met A. Solaiman, a military employees who was at his work when the Islamic state controlled Palmyra...

Syrian air strikes on rebel-held Aleppo city killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The fierce aerial campaign on the liberated neighborhoods of  the northern city killed 4 people in al-Shaaar neighborhood, 5 people, including a woman, in al-Ansari, and 3 others...