Translation by Yusra Ahmed -  Zaman Alwasl has obtained a draft resolution to re-establish the opposition group, Syrian National Council, that will be discussed in upcoming SNC meeting 11th October. The draft proposal identifies the council which consists of 15 Syrian...

  Syrian dissent announced last Saturday from Istanbul the establishment of the Syrian Democratic Union that includes opposition figures from different movements and parties such as the National Coalition , the National Council , cooperative bodies and other Democratic...

Tunisia’s governing Islamist party, Ennahda, thrust into power by the Arab Spring, has agreed to step down after months of political wrangling with a hard-bargaining opposition. In three weeks, the Ennahda-led government is to hand over power to an independent caretaker government...

Official results confirm that Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have won Germany's election, but indicate that they have finished short of an absolute majority. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party together won 41.5 percent of the vote,...