Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will deliver a Friday prayers sermon when he is expected to throw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards after their belated admission that they had downed an airliner in error sparked days of rage on the streets. Making the main weekly...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A blast killed two Turkish army officers and five fighters of the Syrian National Army in northeastern Suluk town, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Thursday. Last October, The Turkish army backed by Syrian rebels took Suluk from the Kurdish People's Protection Units,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Protests against deteriorating living conditions and the government corruption have renewed for the second day in Sweida, Syria’s only majority-Druze province, local activists said Thursday. The state-run news agency reported Wednesday that a few people gathered in a...

Australia's bushfires have killed an estimated 1.25 billion animals and burnt more than a billion trees so far, but even worse, they will cause permanent damage to the country's environment and wildlife presence, according to experts. "The fires have burnt 8.5 million hectares [21 million...