Eight months after a devastating fire ravaged the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, engineers are preparing for a crucial but complicated step in the herculean restoration effort: removing a mound of scaffolding mangled in the blaze. Within weeks, they are set to embark on the most...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Dash (ISIS) militants and two US-backed fighters were killed Thursday in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Two of Daesh assailants were killed in fire exchange with fighters of Deir Ezzor Council, key unit in the Syrian...

Mohammed Hafar paced around the airport terminal — first to the monitor to check flight arrivals, then to the gift shop and lastly to the doors where international passengers were exiting. At last, out came Jana Hafar, his tall, slender, dark-haired teen daughter who had been forced by...

Flooding at Beirut's only Jewish cemetery has swept away entire graves after heavy rainfall hit the Lebanese capital. The floodwater destroyed a retaining wall at the graveyard in the Ras al-Nabaa district overnight into Thursday, dragging sarcophagi and large chunks of rubble onto the...