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Assad air strikes kill 13 in al-Hola near Homs

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Wednesday killed at least 12 civilians , including two women and one child, near al-Hola town in the northwest of Homs city, activists said. The air force carried out four air strikes on the villages of...

4 Assad militants held captive by rebels in Aleppo

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad forces on Wednesday held captive by rebels in Handarat district of Aleppo, activists say . Ibrahim al-Khatib, media activist, said ‘Failaq al-Sham’ rebel group have arrested four fighters,...

Car bomb kills seven in Homs

  (AFP)- A car bomb on a shopping street in Syria's government-controlled third city of Homs killed seven people and wounded 30 on Wednesday, the provincial governor told AFP. It was the latest in a string of deadly attacks targeting the Akrameh...

Japan PM rushes home to lead hostage crisis response

Tokyo (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was rushing home from the Middle East Wednesday to take charge of Tokyo's response to Islamic militants threatening to kill two nationals unless he pays a $200 million ransom. A defiant Abe vowed he would not bow to "terrorism", as...