Tajikistan's security services are investigating unspecified threats of action this month purportedly made by a former commander of the Central Asian nation's elite police force who has defected to Islamic State, security sources said on Tuesday. Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, who has gone...

The drumbeat of hammers echoes most mornings through suburban Denver, where Jay Small, the owner of company that frames houses, is building about 1,300 new homes this year. That's more than triple what he built a few years ago, when “you couldn’t buy a job” in the residential...

Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A State of anger is prevailing in the regime-controlled areas of the Western side of Aleppo city due to the increase cases of looting empty houses after leaving them by their owners, especially those near front lines, by member of the Popular...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman al-Wasl)- Sheikh of al-Baggara tribes in Syria Nawaf al-Basheer surprised us by saying, “the fall of Bashar al-Assad means fall of the institutions of the Syrian state,” because the alternative for this regime is either extremism or division considering the fall...