Jordan's state security court has convicted five Syrians of helping Daesh (ISIS) militants carry out a 2016 car bomb attack that led to the closure of the Syrian-Jordanian border. The court on Monday imposed the death penalty on one defendant and sentenced three to life in prison. A...

Yemen's internationally-recognized government said Monday it would grant amnesty to anyone who cuts ties with Houthi rebels, after a key rebel ally turned his back on the Iran-backed insurgents. "The president will soon announce a general amnesty for all those who collaborated with the...

 U.S. drugstore chain operator CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) said on Sunday it had agreed to acquire U.S. health insurer Aetna Inc (AET.N) for $69 billion, seeking to tackle soaring healthcare spending through lower-cost medical services in pharmacies. This year’s largest corporate...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nasr al-Hariri, head of the opposition's negotiation committee was a subject for a US-based spy company over a request of an Arab state tracking  a period when al-Hariri was the Secretary-General of the Coalition.  Flashpoint Partner has provided...

Jets believed to be Syrian and Russian struck heavily crowded residential areas in a besieged rebel enclave near Damascus, killing at least 27 people and injuring dozens in the third week of a stepped-up assault, residents, aid workers and a war monitor said on Monday. Civil defense...

Former Egyptian prime minister Ahmed Shafik, who returned home from the United Arab Emirates after announcing his bid for Egypt’s presidency, appeared in Cairo on Sunday to say he was still considering his run in next year’s election. Shafik’s comments on a private Cairo television...

Jordan has begun consultations on convening an emergency meeting of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation before an expected move this week by U.S. President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a senior Jordanian source said. A senior U.S....

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday businessmen who attempted to move assets abroad were “traitors”, and called on his cabinet to block any such moves. “I am seeing signals, news that some businessmen are trying to move their assets abroad, and I call on firstly my cabinet...

Around half of the Yazidis kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Sunday. In 2014, IS jihadists killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the religious minority to abuse them as sex...

Qatar has decried claims by an Emirati minister about a Qatari mediation between rebel groups in Yemen amid rebel infighting in the capital Sanaa. Houthi rebels and loyalists of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh have been battling for control in Sanaa, which they jointly overran in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 71 troops from coastal Latakia province were killed in November as the death toll in pro-regime areas reached 218, news feeds said. Most of the slain troops had been killed by Daesh (ISIS) in Deir Ezzor, Eastern Ghouta suburbs and Hama province. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Sunday have taken the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province after fierce battles with ISIS, the SDF’s media centre said. The YPG-led forces said it will set up local councils in the liberated areas saying the newly...

Palestinian resistance group Hamas has warned against U.S. plans to relocate the its embassy to Jerusalem and recognize the city as Israel’s capital. This “would represent a U.S. assault on the city and give legitimacy to [Israel] over the city,” Hamas said in a statement on Saturday....

A minibus smuggling people from Syria into Turkey hit a truck on the Turkish side of the border Sunday, killing 10 people on board and severely injuring seven others, according to the Dogan news agency. The head-on collision happened in Hatay province in the afternoon after a team of...

ABC News said on Saturday it had suspended Brian Ross, its chief investigative correspondent, over an error in his reporting about former national security adviser Michael Flynn which sent U.S. stocks, the dollar and Treasury yields lower on Friday. “We deeply regret and apologize for...

Yemen's Houthi rebels say they have launched a cruise missile towards a nuclear plant in Abu Dhabi, the capital of UAE. According to a report in the Saba news agency, the missile hit the Barakah nuclear power station, which is under construction. A website for the Houthi-owned...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Zaman al-Wasl has obtained a study made by experts and former military pilots detailing the mounting presence of the regional and international powers in Syria where most of airbases are under control of Iran, Russia, U.S., France and Turkey. Syria's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 civilians killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs as regime forces and Russia step up aerial and ground bombing on the besieged suburbs near Damascus, opposition news feeds said on Sunday. The strikes targeted the towns of Hammouriya and Harasta, women and children...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 65 troops and militiamen from Hama province were killed in November, pro-regime news feeds said on Saturday. Most of the slain troops were from Mesyaf and Salamiya towns.  The death toll included 12 officers. In neighboring Homs province, 76 troops...

Members of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gathered Saturday to vote on new leadership after the party's triumphant turnout in September's general election, as thousands staged street protests against the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam party. The AfD captured nearly 13 percent...