An Iranian committee is examining potential candidates to be the next Supreme Leader, former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Sunday, breaking a taboo of talking publicly about succession in the Islamic Republic. Even after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 75, had surgery...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday that the danger of the far-right remained despite the National Front (FN) failing to win a single contest in regional elections. "The danger of the far-right has not been removed, far from it," said Valls after early estimates were released.

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The death toll of deadly strikes on Douma and nearby suburbs east Damascus has risen to 70, activists said Sunday. Scores, including women and children, have been killed on Sunday in air and missile attacks on a school district in Douma city near Damascus, medics and...

Graffiti artist Banksy has created a new artwork on the wall of a refugee camp in Calais, France depicting the late Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, as a migrant. The work in the so-called ‘Jungle refugee camp’ shows Jobs, the son of a Syrian migrant, in his typical black polo neck carrying a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 people killed Sunday in two Russian missiles fired into marketplace in northern Aleppo province, local monitor said. The Russian missile attack on Sunday has targeted town of Maskenah in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, leaving 25 people, including women and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 civilians, including women and children, have been killed on Sunday in air and missile attacks on a school district in Douma city near Damascus, medics and activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said unidentified war planes hit the town of...

Babylonia has no regrets about leaving behind her two children and her job as a hairdresser to join a Christian female militia battling against the Islamic State group in Syria. The fierce-looking 36-year-old in fatigues from the Syriac Christian minority in the northeast...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A massive influx by Syrian Christian families of the ancient town of Sadad, southeast Homs city, into government-held areas as ISIS make more gains after taking back the nearby town of Maheen days ago, local reporter said. Sadad, which is home to several ancient churches and...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic state keeps losing new villages in Hasaka proivncec northeast Syria, in conjunction with deepening the suffering of the people as the area is being targeted by airstrikes of both the US-led alliance and the Russians air-forces. in the same...

 President Barack Obama on Saturday praised the "strong" and historic" accord hammered out in Paris, which he said could mark "a turning point for the world" on climate change. "The Paris agreement establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the climate crisis," the US...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes have killed 14 civilians in the eastern and western suburbs of the Syrian capital, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 6 people, including mother and her newborn, have been killed in southern district of...

Forty-one people were killed and another 65 injured Saturday in Russian airstrikes that targeted Aleppo province, Syrian Civil Defense sources told Anadolu Agency. The sources in the towns of Atarib and Munbij said that a Russian airstrike targeted a residential area in Munbij, leaving 30...

 Truces between the Syrian government and rebels only benefit Damascus, the leader of one of the largest insurgent groups in the war said in comments broadcast on Saturday, in which he also criticized a recent opposition meeting as a "conspiracy." The remarks by Abu Mohamad al-Golani,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes on Saturday have killed at least 10 civilians, mostly one family members, in air strikes on a border town with Iraq, activists said. The airstrikes have targeted the Isis-controlled town of al-Bukamal in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, leaving 10 people...

Several thousand protesters, most of them members of Shiite paramilitary forces, gathered in central Baghdad Saturday to demand the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Iraq. Iraq says Turkey deployed troops and tanks to a base in the country's north last week without its permission, sparking a...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended her open-door policy on refugees in an interview published Saturday ahead of a key party congress and an EU summit likely to see her stance come under fire. Merkel said she was working on reducing the number of migrants coming to Europe's biggest...

A meeting of Syrian opposition groups in Riyadh on Thursday did not represent all opposition groups from the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. "We cannot accept the attempt by the group which met in Riyadh to assign itself the right to speak on behalf of the entire Syrian...

Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time on Saturday in local council elections and also stood as candidates, a step hailed by some activists in the Islamic patriarchy as a historic change, but by others as merely symbolic. "As a first step it is a great achievement. Now...

A powerful car bomb exploded near a hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs Saturday, killing 16 people and wounding dozens in an attack claimed by ISIS, the provincial governor and an activist group said. ISIS in a statement said it was behind the attack, and said it consisted of a car...

A ceasefire in Yemen's civil war will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of the Houthi delegation to the peace talks said Saturday. "Based on what had been agreed upon, there will be a halt of the aggression on the 14th of this month," Mohammed...