Turkish police are treating as suicide the death of an ex-British Army officer who helped start Syria's White Helmets, but his wife has been banned from leaving the country, local media said Thursday. Police are analysing James Le Mesurier's hospital records where he sought help for mental...

Donald Trump has insisted that the US military presence in Syria is “only for the oil”, contradicting his own officials who have insisted that the remaining forces were there to fight Isis. Trump made his remarks while hosting Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, just over a month after the...

Schools in Tehran were ordered to be closed on Wednesday after the Iranian capital was cloaked in dangerously high levels of air pollution, authorities said. Governor Anoushiravan Mohseni-Bandpey said kindergartens, preschools and primary schools would be shut in the city and the counties...

(Zamana Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee was killed when Hezbollah militia and the regime army launched an offensive to drive rebels from Juroud Arsal, their last foothold on the Syrian-Lebanese border on Friday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said.   The Syrian refugee camps in Wadi Hamid that...