Bayt al-Hikma, or the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, emerged in the ninth century – even before the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, widely considered the first academy of sciences. The Banu Musa ...

Israel has taken over a buffer zone between Israel and Syria and says its forces will not withdraw until it is sure that residents of the Golan Heights border area will be secure. Half of these ...

as per a new decree issued by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. The decree to establish the Dubai Resilience Centre grants the ...

Syria's new rulers have appointed a foreign minister, the official Syrian news agency, or SANA, said on Saturday, as they seek to build international relations two weeks after Bashar al-Assad was ...

Syria's new rulers appointed Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency that toppled Bashar al-Assad, as defence minister in the interim government, an official source said on Saturday.

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former al Qaeda affiliate which led the rebel campaign that toppled Assad, has repeatedly vowed to protect minority groups, who fear the new rulers could seek to ...

Murhaf Abu Qasra is a leading figure in the insurgency Known by nom de guerre Abu Hassan 600 Earlier on Saturday new rulers also appointed a foreign minister DAMASCUS, Dec 21 (Reuters ...

With 500,000 dead in the war and more than 100,000 missing, the new authorities have also pledged justice for the victims of abuses under the deposed ruler. Syria's new leaders face the monumental ...

DAMASCUS – Syria’s new rulers have appointed Mr Murhaf Abu Qasra, a leading figure in the insurgency which toppled former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, as defence minister in the interim ...

With the Shia Alawite sect making up only 10 percent of the population in the majority Sunni country, Syria’s de-facto ruler is trying to keep tensions from boiling over. Simona Foltyn reports.

IT WAS a very social week for a man with a $10m bounty on his head. Foreign diplomats rushed to Damascus to talk with Ahmad al-Sharaa (pictured), the rebel commander who led the offensive that ...