A Saudi Arabian court on Sunday sentenced five men to death for their involvement in a suicide attack on expatriate residential compounds in Riyadh in 2003, the state news agency reported. Another 37 people were sentenced to terms of three to 35 years for assisting the attacks...
Asian stock markets were subdued on Monday, as tensions in Ukraine kept investors cautious amid an absence of catalysts as several markets remained closed for the Easter holiday. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched down 0.1 percent. Japan's...
Russia's decision last week to sign a peace accord on Ukraine does not mean that the Kremlin is backing down, rather that President Vladimir Putin is prepared to be patient in pursuit of his ultimate objective. That aim, his own reflections and those of people close to...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed| From the leaked reports Zaman Alwasl obtained, the shocking and attention-drawing truth was that no one was protected from killing, abduction or blackmailing, even pro-regime people and informers working for it. Crimes even reach to...
Rivalry between jihadist groups fighting in Syria has sharply divided global militant ranks once loosely allied under Al-Qaeda, sparking infighting which experts say has hampered efforts to topple President Bashar al-Assad. And while senior leaders of Al-Qaeda were all but above...
The most senior Islamic cleric in Jerusalem said on Sunday Israeli police hurled stun grenades into al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest site, to quell the latest in a string of Palestinian protests at the politically sensitive holy site. Israeli police denied the...
Air strikes in southern Yemen killed about 30 suspected al Qaeda members on Sunday, local tribal sources said, in the second day of strikes against militant targets in the country. On Saturday an air strike killed 10 al Qaeda militants and three civilians in central Yemen , a...
Translation by Dani Murad| Deir al-Zor, Syria's richest oil province is witnessing a sharp tribal tension due to the imminent danger coming from the south of Hasakah province which is represented by ISIS after taking control of number of cities and towns in the...
Allegations that Bashar al-Assad's forces used chemical weapons in recent attacks gained traction on Sunday when France said it had "information" of toxic gases being used against opposition targets. The claim, by the French president, François Hollande , follows accusations by...
Bashar al-Assad on Sunday visited an ancient Christian town recaptured from rebels last week, state media said, as he seeks to persuade minorities that the government is their best protection against hardline Islamists. Assad's Easter visit to Maaloula - a rare appearance...
Celebrating Easter Sunday, Christianity's most joyous and hopeful day, Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine and Syria and for an end to the terrorist attacks in Nigeria that have targeted so many Christians. More than 150,000 tourists — Romans and pilgrims, young and old — had...
In its latest interventions and violations in Syria, Hezbollah has set up monitor and spying devices on the main water reservoir in Masaken al-Shurta (En: Police Housing) in Najha south of Damascus, which is one of the most sensitive areas for the Syrian...
Sweida's Kitchen, a simple initiative by a former detainee in Assad prisons who’s from Sweida, located in Harasta, most volunteers who work in are from Sweida as well. For more explanation, Laila, an activist, and a supervisor in Sweida kitchen said: “the...
Zaman Alwasl carries on publishing- exclusively- documents leaked from the Syrian regime, among these documents, one dated on 18-2-2013, showing a request from the Ministry on Interior to buy 4 helicopters from a Russian arms plant via the office of Army security. The document...
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By Al Arabiya News | Tribes in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour have begun recruiting hundreds of fighters in readiness to battle rebels from the jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Al Arabiya News Channel reported on Saturday. Tribesmen in three...
Iran says that a plane which landed in Tehran airport flying the American flag was leased to Ghana's presidential office and carrying a business delegation from the West African nation. The New York Times reported on Thursday that a plane owned by the Bank of Utah was...
An explosion in a car killed two people and wounded a third in a mostly Shi'ite village in Bahrain on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said. The ministry said on its Twitter account the explosion was in the village of al-Maqshaa', along the Budayya highway, outside of the...
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) | Two rebel car bombs targeted two central Syrian areas controlled by government forces on Saturday, killing at least ten people as opposition forces fought fiercely to hold onto territory, officials and activists reported. Britain-based Syrian Observatory...
