(Zaman Al Wasl)- General fear and resentment of locals in pro-regime areas in Latakia countryside are taking over since scores of villages in Jableh countryside underwent armed robbery by masked men. Bayt Yashout News Network posted on Facebook calling for neighboring villages to take...

Israel and Turkey on Sunday reached agreement to normalize ties, senior officials from both countries said, to end a rift over the Israeli navy's killing of 10 Turkish pro-Palestinian activists who tried to sail to the blockaded Gaza Strip in 2010. A formal announcement on the restoration of...

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a girl growing up in Syria, Om Khaled had little say in her own destiny, married at 14 to a man chosen by her father and unable to leave her home alone. But her life has changed dramatically since her country plunged into civil war four years ago, with Om...

Iran's supreme leader has blasted as "foolishness" a decision by Bahrain's leaders to strip a top Shi'ite Muslim cleric of his citizenship, and said it could provoke violence from Shi'ites, who make up the majority in the Sunni-ruled Gulf kingdom. The speech by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, carried...