(CNN)- Last week the Russian military brought more than a hundred international journalists, including our CNN crew, to Palmyra. The trip was orchestrated to showcase Moscow's role in liberating the ancient heritage site but it also said a lot about the Russian army's capabilities and the scale...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hassan Mohammad Shaayto, Mukhtar of the town of Ainata in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, died from a heart attack on Sunday after he won against his opponent Abdul Karim Harmoush. The elections were held in the Lebanese capital Beirut and the area of Bekaa...

(Al Arabiya English)- The election of Sadiq Khan as London’s first Muslim mayor has been welcomed by all walks of life from popstars and sporting personalities to human rights lawyers and US presidential hopefuls. His victory was significant, not only because the Labour Party - of which he...

Several Iranian soldiers were killed near Aleppo, the Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, in what appeared to be one of Iran's biggest losses in Syria since it deployed forces to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Islamist insurgents on Friday seized the strategic village of Khan...