(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) More than 30,000 acres of natural forest have been destroyed in the western countryside of Homs province last Friday when a large fire broke out, eye-witnesses told Zaman al-Wasl. Eyewitnesses said in early hours of Friday a large fire had broken out in the...

The first cargo ships passed through Egypt's New Suez Canal on Saturday in a test-run before it opens next month, state media reported, 11 months after the army began constructing the $8 billion canal alongside the existing 145-year-old Suez Canal. The new waterway, which...

Syrian regime air strikes on Friday have killed 45 people, including 11 children and 9 women, across the war-torn country, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported. Barrel bomb attacks have killed 7 civilians, including 3 children, in al-Yadouda town in the southern province of Daraa....

Turkish warplanes pounded Islamic State targets in Syria and police detained hundreds of suspected militants across Turkey on Friday, a sign that Ankara may have shed its hesitancy in taking a front-line role against jihadist fighters. Turkey has long been a reluctant partner in...