( Video )- Mohamed Zaka, 13-year-old, delivers his own analysis for the Syrian conflict with no fear, using his sense of humor when he talks about the deteriorating situation in rebel-held Aleppo. Zaka with his playmates of rebel-held Aleppo keep their regular life despite daily barrage...

 The U.N. Security Council on Monday demanded all parties to the Syrian civil war allow humanitarian aid to reach without obstruction the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus, a site that Islamist militants had recently seized. The unanimous appeal by the...

(Reuters) - Members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) should prepare for extra Iranian crude production when Western sanctions on Tehran are lifted, Iran's oil minister was quoted on Tuesday by state news agency IRNA as saying. "We expect the members of OPEC...

(Reuters) - Brent crude oil steadied around $63 a barrel on Tuesday, not far below the 2015 high, supported by worries that a civil war in Yemen could destabilize the Middle East, affecting oil supplies. Oil has climbed around 15 percent this month due to concern over the conflict in...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced ousted President Mohamed Mursi to 20 years in prison without parole on Tuesday for the killing of protesters in December 2012, in a decision broadcast on state television. It was the first ruling against Muslim Brotherhood leader Mursi since the...

(Reuters) - A bomb exploded in front of the Spanish embassy in the Libyan capital late on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of attacks on foreign missions in the North African country. "We heard a loud explosion," said a Tripoli resident living next to the embassy....

(Reuters) - Asian stocks were firm on Tuesday after China's latest step to prop up its faltering economy lifted global equities, while the euro was pressured on growing worries a cash-strapped Greece may default on its debt. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan...

The U.S. State Department said on Monday it might talk with Iran about promoting regional stability, noting it had been open to including Iran in past efforts to achieve a Syrian peace deal if Tehran had altered its policy. But it drew a distinction between talking to Iran about issues...

(Reuters) - An air strike on a Scud missile base in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa triggered a big explosion that killed 25 people and wounded almost 400 on Monday, state news agency Saba said. Saudi Arabia has led an alliance of Sunni Arab countries in air strikes against...

The U.S. Navy has sent an aircraft carrier and a guided-missile cruiser into the waters near Yemen, officials said on Monday, heightening the U.S. maritime security presence as concerns mount over Yemen's escalating conflict. The U.S. Navy sent the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and its...

Southern Front rebels on Monday have thwarted Syrian forces' attack on Bosr al-Harir town in the eastern countryside of  Daraa province, inflicting heavy losses, activists said. Bashar al-Assad's forces and his allied Shiite militias carried out a surprise attack on eastern...

(Reuters) - Iran is charging Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian with four crimes, including espionage, the newspaper said on Monday in a report offering the first details about the exact charges against him. Rezaian, the Post's bureau chief in Tehran, was detained last year in...

(Reuters) - The European Union proposed doubling the size of its Mediterranean search and rescue operations on Monday, as the first bodies were brought ashore of some 900 people feared killed in the deadliest shipwreck while trying to reach Europe. Three other rescue operations were...

In a remarkable incident, Priest Ibrahim Farah, Head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Idlib, has entrusted a Muslim man to take care of the church as he flees the captured city. Zelal Badie al-Moallem, former member of Syria's national team for volleyball, told Zaman al-Wasl that Priest...

Head of Syrian opposition's the National Coalition to visit Doha Tuesday in an effort to mobilize support after decline, a well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. Mr. Khaled Khoja will visit Qatar for the first time since he was elected as a head of the Western-backed group early 2015....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham Islamic Movement in Eastern Ghouta district of Damascus agreed Sunday to abide by the decision of unified judiciary to deliver its fighters' weapons to Failaq al-Rahman, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources. Despite its discontent, Ahrar's step...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) “Rihan”, the documentary of the director Mohannad al-Hammod, has won the first prize in the Documentary Film festivals on Saturday.  The film has shown significant skillfulness in filming, presentation and directing, besides...

A former intelligence officer for the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was the mastermind behind Islamic State's takeover of northern Syria, according to a report by Der Spiegel that is based on documents uncovered by the German magazine. Spiegel, in a lengthy story published at the...

The prosecution's evidence in a trial this month of 51 alleged Muslim Brotherhood supporters in  Egypt  relied on the testimony of one police officer, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. HRW said the prosecution had presented little evidence to show the defendants did anything...

An Iraqi Shi'ite militia group said on Sunday it had conducted DNA tests to prove the death of Ezzat al-Douri, former right-hand man to the late president Saddam Hussein, who after the 2003 U.S. invasion was ranked by Washington as the sixth most-wanted Iraqi. The Kataib Hizbollah group...