International credit rating agency Fitch has put the US’ ‘AAA’ credit rating on “rating watch negative” based on the stalled debt ceiling negotiations between the White House and the Congress.
Asma al-Assad, Syria's first lady, has ruled out claims that she fled the war-hit country, expressing confidence she will stay in Syria alongside her family.
The United States would welcome a further bilateral meeting with Iran on the sidelines of nuclear negotiations between Tehran and six major powers that began in Geneva on Tuesday, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said.
The Syrian army attacked and destroyed concentration centers of Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists in north eastern city of Qamishli, killing tens of militants and injuring dozens more in fierce clashes, Al-Alam reports.
Forensic tests performed on the body of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat found no indication of polonium poisoning, a senior Russian official said Tuesday.
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) called Tuesday on Syria's warring groups and the international community to make aiding needy civilians as urgent a priority as dealing with chemical weapons.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi says world powers had a "good" first reaction to Tehran's proposals regarding the dispute over its nuclear program.
Director of al-Alam news network Seyyed Ahmad Sadat says al-Alam and other “resistance media” have foiled plots hatched by enemies against Syria.
As US politicians of both political parties are still shuffling back and forth between the White House and the Capitol Hill without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world.
A bomb has ripped through a crowd of worshippers as they left a mosque in Iraq after prayers marking the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, killing 11 people.