(Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abductions' news is the most prominent these days in Sweida province. The Western and Western North are the regions with highest incidence of abduction; most of them have financial blackmailing...

(Reuters) - A group of militant Islamists planning to carry out attacks in the West is on its way from Syria , possibly heading towards Norway , police said on Friday. Norwegian armed police were deployed for a second day at high-risk locations including airports and train...

(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed regional leaders to nail down a Gaza ceasefire on Friday as the civilian death toll soared, and further violence loomed between Israelis and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem. With Israel and...

 (Translation by Dani Murad) (Zaman Alwasl)- In an interview with Al Jazeera news channel on Thursday, the prominent Palestinian thinker Azmi Bishara predicted that the tragedy of the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip will end with lifting the...