Saudi Arabia and Iraq plan to open the Arar border crossing for trade for the first time since 1990, when it was closed after the countries cut ties following Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Saudi local media reported on Tuesday. Saudi and Iraqi officials toured the site on Monday and...

Guam officials were "ecstatic" Tuesday as North Korea appeared to back away from its threat to fire four missiles towards the U.S. territory in the western Pacific. "There doesn't appear to be any indication, based on what we're hearing, that there will be any missiles attacking in the near...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 80,000 Syrian refugees sheltering in Rukban camp at Jordan’s border have been suffering lack of drinking water and mounting health problems.   The main potable water tubes were cut off since June 15, such a mesery pushed the displaced people to walk...

The Syrian army and its allies advanced in the central Syrian desert on Monday and could soon encircle a Daesh (ISIS) pocket, part of a multi-pronged thrust into eastern areas held by the militant group. A Syrian military source said the Syrian army and its allies had taken a number of...