(Reuters) - An audio message purportedly from a Japanese journalist being held by Islamic State militants said a Jordanian air force pilot also captured by the group would be killed unless an Iraqi female prisoner in Jordan was released by sunset on Thursday. The message...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb exploded in a rebel-held town of Daraa province Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens, activists said. The blast in Muzayrib town came two days after the humiliating defeat of Syrian regime forces in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Wednesday killed 5 people, 2 children and 3 women, in the rebel-held city of Douma near Damascus, according the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Activists said Bashar al-Assad’s helicopters have...

(Al Arabiya News)- In his latest interview, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “voiced untruths with confidence,” the editor who spoke to him told NPR on Wednesday, while likening him to Hitler. Foreign Affairs managing editor Jonathan Tepperman revealed his thoughts about Assad during...

By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Wide differences and disagreement within the opposition’s delegation team for Moscow’s meeting appeared till even hours before the talks start, as they were not able to identify the...

(Reuters)- Jordan said Wednesday it was willing to hand over an Iraqi woman detained for her role in a 2005 suicide bombing in Amman if a Jordanian pilot captured by ISIS was released. "Jordan is ready to release prisoner Sajida al-Rishawi if the Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Muath al-Kasaesbeh...

(Todays Zaman)- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ruled out any possibility of accepting an autonomous Kurdish government in northern Syria similar to the one in northern Iraq, saying a government like this would cause major problems in the future. In his remarks...

(Reuters) - Kurdish fighters' expulsion of Islamic State forces from the Syrian town of Kobani helped stop the momentum of the Islamist group but is not a significant turning point in the overall campaign, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. The setback for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 people have been killed by Syrian regime due to the heavy artillery shelling on Talbiseh town in the northwest of Homs city, activists said on Tuesday. Activists say more than 30 people have been killed due the aerial...

(Reuters) - At least two rockets from Syria hit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday and Israel returned fire, the military said, nine days after an Israeli air strike in Syria killed an Iranian general and several Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. An Israeli military...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Turkish authorities have closed the country’s southeastern Cilvegozu border crossing for exit and entry due to security concerns following random gun fire from Syria's nearby Bab al-Hawa border crossing. Gunfire was heard at around...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Commander of Islam Army, in a press conference held in Douma city, vowed Syrian regime by more surprises , a day after targeting the capital by 100 rockets and killing 15 people. Zaharan Alloush, the commander of the...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of Iraqi men, have arrived Hasakah city across borders, after Kurdish armed groups attacked their villages, and abducted their women and children, activists said on...

(Zaman Al Wasl-Exclusive)- An exclusive video obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed 54 hostages, including women and children, were held captive by rebels in Latakia countryside for over 17 months. The hostages accused Bashar al-Assad regime of...

(Reuters) - Kurdish forces took full control of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Monday, driving out the last group of Islamic State fighters after nearly four months of battles, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. The Syrian...

(Reuters) - Syrian opposition representatives met in Moscow on Monday at the start of a meeting which the Damascus government will join later this week in efforts to revive peace talks. Nearly four years into a war that has killed more than 200,000 people and displaced...

(Reuters) - President Bashar al-Assad has said U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria should be subject to an agreement with Damascus and Syrian troops should be involved on the ground. Assad was speaking in an interview with the U.S.-based Foreign Affairs...

(CNN) - Kurdish fighters are claiming progress in their fight against ISIS and now control at least 90% of the embattled Syrian city of Kobani, a monitoring group said Monday. Fighters belonging to the People's Protection Units, known as YPG, advanced in the neighborhood of...

(RUDAW) - Syrian opposition leaders meet in Moscow today for preliminary talks, before they are joined by a delegation from Damascus later this week. A number of opposition leaders from inside and outside Syria have traveled to Moscow to attend a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islam Army group on Sunday has pounded Damascus neighborhoods by more than 100 rockets, killing 10 civilians and 5 troopers, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter. Katyusha missiles and hand-made rockets of Sahm al-Islam have...