Gunmen have kidnapped two Turkish nationals from their hotel in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Akwa Ibom state, police said Tuesday in the latest unrest to hit the restive Niger Delta. "Two Turkish nationals working for a construction company in Onna local government area were abducted from...

By Abdulsalam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- The 'Alawite Canton' is no more than nightmare will come true since the Damascus officials aware that Bashar al-Assad will not be the 'lifetime President despite the Russian and Iranian support. Coming back to almost 100-year-old draft of a state for...

( The Guardian )- Vladimir Putin is “toxifying the image of Russia” by backing Bashar al-Assad and the G7 must consider fresh sanctions against Russia and Syria in response to last week’s chemical attack on civilians, Boris Johnson has said. The foreign secretary, speaking as he...

Laughter rings out and there is an atmosphere of excitement and joyful chaos. Children are perched on stilts, others spin plates or happily perform aerial dances. This is not a big top circus in a major city but a house in southeastern Turkey, where Syrian refugee children learn circus...