Politics and religion combined on Sunday to halt much of Israel's train service at the start of its working week. Bowing to demands by ultra-Orthodox partners in the governing coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered rail maintenance suspended on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath -...

President Barack Obama said the United States and Russia were working on Sunday to try to finalize a ceasefire in Syria that would allow more deliveries of humanitarian aid in the war-torn country. A deal could be announced as early as Sunday, a senior U.S. State Department official said on...

(Eqtsad)- Abu Ahmad hides his face away from his interlocutor as he narrates the condition he reached in the war years. The tears run down his cheek as he could not stop them. He cannot figure out how to solve the degree of helplessness and piled up debt. How he will manage to buy fuel and...

A reporter for Britain's Times newspaper who hit the headlines after being kidnapped and shot in Syria said Saturday that a recent Facebook video appeared to show the gunman was now a U.S.-backed rebel. Anthony Loyd was seized along with photographer Jack Hill in 2014 as they were returning to...