ISTANBUL (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Friday will become the latest in a parade of U.S. officials trying to push Turkey to step up its role in the international coalition's fight against Islamic State extremists. His visit follows weeks of public bickering between the two...

  Reporting by Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Houses and properties of displaced people of Baba Amr  neighborhood of war-torn city of Homs have been distributed on regime army officers, Local activists said....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Opposition's National Coalition holds on Friday its regular meeting to discuss Ahmed Tomen's proposed formation of the new cabinet, source said. The Interim prime minister, who preferred to keep four ministers from the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday that "international cooperation" was necessary to crush the Islamic State group, which is the target of a US-led campaign. "The region is going through decisive times" and the most important factor in determining the outcome is...