France wants major powers involved in the Syrian crisis to join a contact group that would make proposals to warring parties, in an effort to break a deadlock in political negotiations, the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. Emmanuel Macron's election victory has given...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- For the first time, hundreds of residents of Saraqib city participated in elections to vote for a local council in the opposition governed areas of rural Idlib on Tuesday.  Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Mohammad Musfra, the director of Public Relations in the former...

At least 20 Yemeni civilians were killed and many others were wounded when a coalition air strike hit a village in the south, officials from the armed Houthi movement and the government said on Wednesday. The U.N. said the victims of Tuesday's bombing, which hit al-Atera village in Taiz...

Iraq's prime minister has acknowledged that human rights violations were committed during the battle to retake the city of Mosul from Daesh (ISIS), but says they were "individual acts." Haider al-Abadi told reporters during a press conference Tuesday that those behind such acts were either...