The Obama administration Monday placed sanctions on a dozen companies and institutions for their role in the ongoing conflict in Syria. The Treasury Department added the names of several shipping and energy companies, including Aqua Shipping and Milenyum Energy S.A. in Turkey, to a sanctions...

The United States and Gulf Arab allies are cooperating to check detribalization in the region, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday, in apparent recognition of their worries that Iran's nuclear deal will deepen its influence among Arabs. Kerry said after meeting fellow...

 (Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Barriers, shields and checkpoints have become a familiar scene to Syrians since Assad's family, father and son, have captured the power in Syria since early sixties last century, and even before the uprising flareup in March 2011. The checkpoints gain...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent Saudi Jihadist, who leads the offensive on Bashar al-Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia, says the rocket campaign on Qardaha town to be continued as regime army extends its brutal attack on border city with Lebanon. Abdullah al-Muhaysini,...