( By Mohanad Hage Ali | Al Arabiya News)- A North Korean delegation met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to improve relations recently, just days before the presidential elections. Assad stressed that the relations between the two countries “stem from the common...

(Reuters) - Pakistani television channel Geo News is suing the powerful spy agency for defamation over accusations of being anti-state, it said on Friday, in a move unprecedented in a country where public criticism of the military is taboo. In the latest twist in a saga that...

(Reuters) - France said on Thursday samples it had collected suggesting Syrian government forces had used chlorine gas in the country's civil war may not prove to be conclusive and would need to be cross-checked with other information to determine its use. The Organization...

(Al Jazeera)- Hillary Clinton favoured arming Syria's rebels early in that country's civil war but was overruled by President Barack Obama, the former secretary of state said in her new memoir. Clinton's long-awaited book "Hard Choices" - seen as an unofficial start to her...

  A well-informed source says 450 detainees with ‘Terrorism charges’ by Syrian regime to be released on Friday from Adra prison near Damascus. Lawyer and Human rights advocate Michel Shammas said other 80 female detainees  would be freed...

BEIRUT: This week’s resounding re-election of Syrian President Bashar Assad cements a new phase in the war raging in his country, one that sees Washington struggling to formulate an approach based on fighting terror as other options stall, experts say. Ironically, the...

Brussels, (IANS/EFE) The leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) have called on Iran to intensify its role in supporting security in the Middle East. "We call on Iran to play a more constructive role in supporting regional security, in particular in Syria, and to reject all acts of...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — European interior affairs ministers are considering censoring jihadi websites and setting up a "task force" to counter jihadi propaganda to prevent radical Muslims from traveling to fight in Syria's civil war and then returning home to commit acts of terrorism....

(Translation by Dani Murad) “Self Defense” a new term, used by the Syrian regime in its war against the Syrian people, and was revealed in a group of exclusive leaked documents obtained by Zaman Alwasl. These documents are published...

Chinese President Xi Jinping repeated on Thursday a call for a political resolution to the Syrian crisis and his country’s support for an inclusive political transition and offered to boost aid for Syrian refugees, Reuters reported. “China respects the reasonable demands of the...

    DAMASCUS, Syria — The temperature had exceeded 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Syrian capital. Traveling to the office of a government official required circumventing multiple blocked roads. The taxi driver took the...

About 150 militants belonging to the radical Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have stormed another Iraqi city in an attempt to further consolidate their hold of parts of the country, Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported Thursday. Using heavy machinery, ISIS militants...

Austrian authorities have arrested a man suspected of radicalising Muslims and recruiting them to fight in Syria, a provincial state prosecutor said on Thursday. A spokesman for the prosecutors’ office in Graz, Austria’s second city, said the suspect was detained two days ago...

  (Al Arabiya News)- French President François Hollande on Thursday said more than 30 French nationals who went to fight in Syria have been killed, AFP reported. During an address to the G7 summit in Brussels, Hollande called for increased cooperation and...

  A visit visa can be converted into a permanent residency permit for a close family member of an expatriate worker under special conditions, a senior Passport Department official said during a phone-in service with Arab News readers on Wednesday....

BANGKOK (AP) — The three-finger salute from the Hollywood movie "The Hunger Games" is being used as a real symbol of resistance in Thailand. Protesters against the military coup are flashing the gesture as a silent act of rebellion, and they're being threatened with arrest if they...

    (Writing by Sham Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) UNESCO held a meeting titled “Rallying the International Community to Safeguard Syria’s Cultural Heritage”, in the organization headquarter in Paris between 26-28 May, 2014....

(Reuters) - Inspectors overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal have asked President Bashar al-Assad's government to clarify disparities in its original declaration on its cache of toxic gas, U.N. diplomats said on Wednesday. The envoys were citing...

Bashar al-Assad won 88.7 percent of the vote in Syria's presidential election, parliament speaker Mohammad al-Laham said on Wednesday, securing a third term in office despite a raging civil war which grew out of protests against his rule. Assad's foes had dismissed the...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced Wednesday an additional $290 million of aide for U.N. agencies working on the Syrian refugee issue. Kerry made the announcement during a visit to Lebanon, which marks the first in five years by a U.S. secretary of state and comes...