Thousands of supporters of powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr filled a central Baghdad square on Friday, disregarding government pleas to scrap protests it said would distract from the war against Islamic State. The demonstration ended a respite from street actions which in April...

  Militant groups smuggled some of their members into Europe in the wave of migrants who have fled from Syria, German Chancellor Angela said on Monday. "In part, the refugee flow was even used to smuggle terrorists," Merkel told a rally of her Christian Democrats in eastern Germany. More...

Writing by Fathi Bayoud and Abdullah al-Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The ripple effects of Hasan Abdel Azim’s, the chairman of the National Coordination Body for Democratic Change (NCB), statement last month have not ended. In the statement he said clearly, “that al-Assad’s leaving before...

Writing by Adnan Abdelrazak; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)-The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced on Saturday Turkey is determined to give Turkish citizenship to Syrian refugees’ resident in its territories, and that the possibility of giving citizenship to the...