Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The political body of the National Coalition has requested Hisham Marwa to communicate with the Canadian body that replied the message sent by the Embassy of the National Coalition in Doha in regard to renewing the expired...

The new Bahrain-based Al-Arab satellite news channel – which is funded by Saudi business mogul Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal – has suspended its broadcast less than 24 hours after its launch. "The broadcast was suspended for technical and administrative reasons," the channel said on...

(Reuters) - Tunisian prime minister-designate Habib Essid proposed a new coalition cabinet on Monday including secularists, Islamists and smaller parties, after politicians rejected a line-up announced last week as unrepresentative. The new ministers included members of secularist...

(Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he wanted to debate the possibility of Japan's military rescuing Japanese citizens abroad, a day after Islamic State militants said they had beheaded a Japanese journalist. The militants said on Sunday they had beheaded...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death on Monday on charges of killing police officers, as authorities continued their crackdown on Islamists. The men were convicted of playing a role in the killings of 16 policemen in the...

By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The mutual relations between Saudi Arabia and Turkey have cautiously started recovering, especially after the death of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz when the Turkish President Recep...

(Reuters) - The fate of a Jordanian pilot held by Islamic State has raised public pressure on King Abdullah over his country's role in the U.S-led military campaign against the hardline group in Syria , fuelling the risk of broader discontent in the U.S. ally. After his...

(Reuters) - Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda has agreed to join its main rival secular party Nidaa Tounes in a coalition government, party leaders said on Sunday. The agreement could bolster stability in Tunisia , which is just emerging from its transition to full...

(Reuters) - Syria's prime minister said on Sunday the country wanted to drive all insurgents out of its territory in 2015 and was prepared to back any attempts to fight global militancy. Speaking in parliament, Wael al-Halqi said Syria's main aim was to "flush out all...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl) The Assyrian Democratic Organization revealed yesterday that Islamic State has demanded Christian people in Hasakah to remove crosses off Churches or they would be...

(Reuters) - Yemen's dominant Houthi movement on Sunday gave political factions three days to agree a way out of a crisis that led to the resignation of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi before the group imposes its own solution. Yemen has been in political limbo since Hadi...

France won the fifth gold medal in their handball history by beating the host team Qatar 25:22 in the final match of the 24th Men's Handball World Championship in Doha. One of the best handball generations ever won the great battle after tremendous 60 minutes in front...

(Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste was released from a Cairo jail on Sunday and left Egypt for his native Australia after 400 days in prison on charges that included aiding a terrorist group, security officials said. There was no official word on the fate of his two...

(Reuters) - A bomb tore apart a bus thought to be carrying Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least six people and wounding 19 in a rare attack at the center of the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness and local media said. A social media account...

The Jordanian government "strongly" condemned on Sunday the execution of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group, saying it continued to seek information proving the safety of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasba who has also been...

A Turkish NGO is seeking to create opportunities for disadvantaged youth on both sides of the Atlantic, and will soon take on one of its biggest challenges. SosyalBen, Turkish for “Social Me,” works with 10,000 economically disadvantaged youth in Turkey and the U.S., in...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)-   A photo of Syria’s mass torture, obtained by Zaman Al Wasl, is likely for the first Syrian Army defectors, Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush, who kidnapped by Syrian regime in September 2011, from a refugee camp on the Turkish...

(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish forces on Sunday found and freed workers who had gone missing a day earlier when Islamic State insurgents seized a small crude oil station near the northern city of Kirkuk, the provincial governor and a provincial councilman said. The Kurds retook...

(Zaman AL Wasl)- Ahrar al-Sham rebel group has thwarted Syrian forces’ attack on Dhour Wardeh checkpoint in rebel-held city of Zabadani, killing 50 troopers, according to statement posted online on Sunday. The Islamist movement of Ahrar al-Sham also...

Paris (AFP) - After having used the Internet profusely for propaganda and recruitment, jihadist organisations have realised that investigators are gleaning crucial information online and are increasingly concealing their web presence, experts say. Apart from recent...