RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain said Monday they will reinstate their ambassadors to Qatar after withdrawing them in an unprecedented move eight months ago. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which also includes Kuwait and...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Turkey backs the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Turkish foreign minister said on Monday. "We have no hesitation on the removal of Assad," Mevlut Cavusoglu said during a live TV interview. CNN reported on...

Reporting by Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed HOMS (Zaman Al Wasl)- Homs’s traders suffer of “Shabiha” and their practices, especially for those who want to re-open their shops in Dablan, due to the pressure from regime and Municipality....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl exclusively publishes the special report of the Free Syrian Judicial Council over the killing of 36 children last September after receiving tainted measles vaccines under a UN-sponsored programme in the rebel-held north of Syria....

Japan’s economy fell into recession Monday in a set back for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration, local media reported. The second successive quarter of negative growth will put pressure on the government to postpone a planned sales tax increase, the Kyodo news agency...

Clashes broke out in several neighborhoods of East Jerusalem overnight after a Palestinian driver was found hanged late Sunday in an Israeli bus in West Jerusalem, eyewitnesses said. Israeli security forces used stun grenade and tear gas to disperse protesters who...

  (Zaman Al Wasl-Special) – 14 members of   the Syrian National Coalition to announce forming a new political bloc next week, carrying the aim of reviving the national role of the key opposition group what may serve the people and the revolution,...

Everyone now knows Turkey does not help terrorists because it allowed foreign fighters to enter Syrian town of Kobani to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister said Monday. Yalcin  Akdogan clarified doubts about Turkey’s policy...

By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed   (Zaman Al Wasl) Interview - Abdul-Baset Sieda, the prominent Syrian Opposition figure, expressed his disappointment for the developments in the border town Kobani, and the division between...

(Reuters) - American forces have begun advising Iraqi troops in the western Anbar province, the top U.S. general told Reuters, in a faster-than-expected expansion of an operation that is central to its campaign against Islamic State. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the...

n">(Reuters) - U.S. aid worker and Indiana native Peter Kassig, beheaded by Islamic State militants who captured him in Syria last year, was remembered on Sunday for his courageous devotion to helping people whose lives were upended by civil war. President Barack Obama...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain agreed on Sunday to return their ambassadors to Qatar, signaling an end to an eight-month rift over Doha's support for Islamist groups. The announcement was made by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and came...

(Reuters) - Five Egyptian students were transferred to a military court on Sunday on charges of rioting at a university, a judicial source said, weeks after a law was passed allowing military trials of civilians for damaging state property. A Cairo criminal court transferred...

(AFP)- The US-led coalition against the Islamic State jihadist group carried out a series of air strikes overnight in the embattled Syrian town of Kobane, a monitor and activists said Sunday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported intensifying clashes between...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has expressed disappointment over talks at the weekend's G20 summit in Australia for only superficially touching upon the recent refugee crisis coming from Syria. "Unfortunately, the refugee issue has not...

A lack of funding and war in Syria and Iraq has stalled progress towards eliminating measles, with deaths from the disease rising in recent years, the World Health Organization has warned. Speaking in Geneva on Thursday, WHO expert Robert Perry said: "The big area of concern...

Thirty-eight people were killed in a deadly road accident in eastern  Ethiopia  on Saturday. The accident took place in Legebenti locality when an Isuzu bus heading for Adama city from Awash town in the eastern part of  Ethiopia  collided with a Sino truck heading...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The clashes between Islam Army and Ahrar al-Sham movement have been renewed on Sunday near Bab al-Hawa, the strategic border crossing of with Turkey, activists said.  Islam Army spokesman, captain Islam Alloush,...

(Reuters) - Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria claimed in a video posted online on Sunday that they had beheaded American hostage Peter Kassig. The video did not show the beheading but showed a masked man standing with a decapitated head covered in blood...

CAIRO (WAM)-   The Arab League (AL) on Sunday welcomed the decision taken by the government of the United Arab Emirates to add a number of organisations, including the Muslim Brotherhood and its local affiliates, to its list of terrorist...