An assailant attempted to shoot a prominent Turkish journalist Friday outside a courthouse in Istanbul just before the verdict in his trial on charges of revealing state secrets was due to be announced, a Reuters witness said. The assailant shouted "traitor" before firing at least three shots...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A surprising act of the Syrian regime prevented residents of the countryside of Latakia who left to the city from returning to their villages under its control. The news of dismissing and denying access of people to their villages after leaving them...

Rebels seized a village from government forces near Aleppo overnight, a monitoring group and rebel sources said on Friday, gaining important ground near the Syrian city where the United States and Russia are trying to de-escalate the war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 73 people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman Al Wasl launched Thursday its online TV channel in a move seeks to deliver the Syrian news directly from people on the ground to the world in Arabic and English. The newly-born media tribune aims to tell the truth without frills. Islamic State's leaks, Zaman's...