Reporting by Abdulhafiz al Jolani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Arsal - (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese army backed with Shiite Hezbollah militia have renewed ground and missile attacks on border territory controlled by Nusra Front, hours after the al-Qaeda branch in Syria had delivered 16 army...

Argentina, in a stinging repudiation of outgoing leftist President Cristina Kirchner, elected a pro-market government president to take the helm of Latin America's third-biggest economy. Conservative president-elect Mauricio Macri, fresh from Sunday's run-off election...

Syria will only share intelligence information with France if Paris changes its policies in the region, President Bashar Assad said in an interview with French magazine Valeurs Actuelles. "If the French government is not serious in its fight against terrorism, we will not waste our time...

Saudi Arabia will raise the price of water for non-residential consumers, local media reported, a sign the government is cutting back an expensive system of subsidies as low oil prices strain its finances. The rate for industrial, government or large corporate users will rise to 9 riyals...