U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hinted on Monday about the existence of military options on North Korea that might spare Seoul from a brutal counterattack but declined to say what kind of options he was talking about or whether they involved the use of lethal force. U.S. Ambassador to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three men charged with killing seven Civil Defense workers in August were executed on Monday in northern Idlib province, local activists said. The armed attackers on August 12 stormed an office of the Syrian paramedic group in the town of Sarmin, killing seven...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugee camps in Arsal in Lebanon started school year Saturday for the three school levels: primary, intermediate and secondary school. Administrative clerk in Qaryat Hayat School Ibrahim al-Sheikh mentioned that the number of Syrian students enrolled in the...

Myanmar insisted on Friday it was not barring aid workers from Rakhine State, where a counter-insurgency campaign has sparked an exodus of Muslim Rohingya refugees, but said authorities on the ground might restrict access for security reasons. Nearly 400,000 Rohingya have fled to...