The last time U.S. Vice President Joe Biden flew to Turkey, in January, he had a stern message for President Tayyip Erdogan: his model of Islamic democracy was setting a bad example by intimidating media and threatening academics. But his tone was markedly different when he arrived in...

Lebanon’s Hezbollah said the partition of Iraq and Syria was a possible outcome of sectarian fighting across the region and there was no prospect of any end to the war in Syria until after November's U.S. presidential election. Sheikh Naim Qassem, deputy leader of the Iran-backed group,...

Reporting by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri; Translation by Yusra Ahmed    (Zaman Al Wasl)- Children of Jabal al-Akrad and al-Turkmen, have suffered of displacement for more than three times, most of them have lost a father or a brother, or even a mother, some of them lost an arm or a leg or...

(Eqtsad)- The intense battles in Deraa’s western countryside and the conflicted sides exchanges using heavy artillery has led to the incineration of large tracts of agricultural land planted with wheat, an important strategic crop that the population in the western area depend on as one of...