(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaysh Usud al-Sharqiya, key rebel group operating at the Iraqi border, has agreed to lay down arms to the Jordanian army and to leave Tanaf border crossing with Iraq, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. The US-backed group will join the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic...

The Taliban rebels killed at least 16 members of the Afghan police on the last day of the government’s unilateral 18-day cease-fire, officials confirmed on Thursday. According to Sunnat Temor, spokesman for the governor of Takhar province, the rebels attacked check posts of the Afghan...

Iraq is to plant 70,000 date palms south of Baghdad, hoping to revive production of a crop it was famed for across the Middle East. The country once produced three-quarters of the world’s dates but now accounts for just 5 percent after it switched its economic focus to oil and after decades...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog plans to vote Wednesday on whether it should have authority to apportion blame for attacks, an idea arising from frictions between Britain and its key Western allies on one side and Russia and Syria on the other. The British...