The United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan has left the country for a private trip abroad, state news agency WAM reported on Saturday, a rare report on the leader's movements since he suffered a stroke in 2014. It did not give any details on where he was...

A suicide bomber detonated explosives near a mosque in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia on Thursday, killing and wounding several people, a monitoring group and state media reported. The explosion took place near the city center as people were leaving prayers, state TV reported, describing...

Islamic State insurgents faced major assaults on two fronts in both Iraq and Syria on Wednesday in what could prove to be some of the biggest operations to roll back their caliphate since they proclaimed it in 2014. In Syria, U.S.-backed militia with thousands of Arab and Kurdish fighters were...

Ttanslation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The negotiation committee of al-Waer neighbourhood, the last stronghold of the revolution in Homs, has announced that the future of the neighbourhood is unknown, amid severe siege by a regime who has no moral or religious deterrent. The...