By Abdulllah Al Ghadawi; Translaiton by Yusra Ahmed (Zamnan Al Wasl)- Speculations are mounting in regard to the possible opening of a new page in the relations between Saudi Arabia and Turkey after the King Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz assumed power in the...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's ambassador to  Yemen  is moving to the southern city of Aden, an aide to President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said on Thursday, in an apparent snub to the Shi'ite Houthi faction that has taken control of the capital Sanaa. The Saudi Foreign Ministry...

(Reuters) - Ultra-radical Islamist militants in northern  Iraq  have destroyed a priceless collection of statues and sculptures from the ancient Assyrian era, inflicting what an archaeologist described as incalculable damage to a piece of shared human history. A video...

(Reuters) - A U.S.-led alliance launched air strikes against Islamic State on Thursday in an area of northeast Syria where the militants are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian Christians this week, a group monitoring the war reported. The Syrian Observatory...

The British  Daesh militant known as "Jihadi John," who has been pictured in videos showing the beheading of Western hostages, has been named as Mohammed Emwazi, according to the BBC, the  British state broadcaster. Daesh is the Arabic acronym for...

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(Reuters) - The U.S. embassy in Amman has warned its citizens to avoid upscale shopping malls in the Jordanian capital, saying it had received what it called credible information that they could be targeted by militants. In a statement posted on its website late on Wednesday,...

 One person was killed and five others including policemen were wounded when five bombs exploded in Cairo on Thursday, security sources said. A bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the residential district of Imbaba, killing one and wounding two, the Interior Ministry...

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(Reuters) - A coalition air strike near the Iraqi border town of al-Qaim killed at least 17 Islamic State militants overnight, a hospital source said. The source in al-Qaim hospital said a further 29 militants were wounded in the strike and some were taken across the border...

(Reuters) - Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is suspected of corruptly amassing as much as $60 billion, equivalent to Yemen's annual GDP, during his long rule, and colluding in a militia takeover last year, U.N.-appointed investigators have told the Security Council. The...

(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met on Wednesday with French parliamentarians, the first such meeting since France closed its embassy in 2012 and announced that Syria's leader had lost all legitimacy. The trip was not approved by the French parliament's foreign...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Hepatitis A is spreading in Wadi Barada area threatening the sources of drinking water supplying Damascus city, as cases of the disease hit 50 one. The infection had spread before in Southern Damascus towns...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Vice President of the Syrian National Coalition stated that the visit to Saudi Arabia, started on Monday, was fruitful; saying the Kingdom’s stand of  Syrian revolution and the opposition is solid and has not changed. Hisham...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior Commander of Suqour al-Sham brigades has escaped an assassination attempt when a militant group planted an explosive device in his car in Idlib countryside, rebel news feeds reported. Bassam al-Ayyashi, A Syrian-French jihadist,...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists warned of an imminent humanitarian crisis in the embattled city of Moadamiyet al-Sham if Syrian regime forces will not open the main crossing point to Damascus in a breach to a truce reached in 2013. Moadamiyet...

(Reuters) - Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards staged war games in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, including a gunboat attack on a model U.S. warship, in Tehran's latest display of military muscle in a Gulf shipping channel vital to world oil exports. The Shi'ite Muslim Islamic...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi said on Wednesday that oil demand is growing and markets are calm, in some of his first public comments since the price of crude rebounded from a near six-year low. Oil prices fell by 60 percent between June and January to a...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Photos)- Iran daily mourning of militants killed in Syria "Iran sees the survival of the Syrian government as being crucial to its interest. Its only consistent ally since the 1979 Islam ic revolution, Syria provides a crucial thoroughfare to Hezbollah in ...

(Reuters) - A long-awaited truce appeared to be taking hold at last in east  Ukraine  on Wednesday as pro-Russian rebels pulled artillery from the front, but the news did nothing to halt a currency collapse that forced the central bank to ban most trading. The Ukrainian...