(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has released 8 detainees, 3 women and 5 men, in swap deal with rebels near Damascus, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said that regime freed 8 civilians in prisoner exchange...
(Reuters) - Turkish troops could be used to help set up a secure zone in Syria , if there was an international agreement to establish such a haven for refugees fleeing Islamic State fighters, President Tayyip Erdogan said in comments published on Saturday. Turkey has so...
(Reuters) - New U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State fighters failed to stop them from pressing their assault on a strategic Syrian town near the Turkish border on Saturday, hitting it with shell fire for the first time. The U.S. Central Command said the air strikes...
Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Alwasl- Special)- Information reported to Zaman al-Wasl revealed that Syrian Regime has distributed thousands of of Syrian passports' numbers via the Interpol, claiming to be stolen from the Immigration...
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that a "no-fly zone" should be created in Syria to protect part of it from attacks by Syria's air force. In his comments to reporters on his return from the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Erdogan did not...
A senior Islamic State group jihadist was killed on Friday in an air strike in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "A coalition warplane fired on a motorbike with two men on it after it left a headquarters" of IS west of Deir Ezzor city in the province...
BEIRUT (AP) — American warplanes and drones hit Islamic State group tanks, Humvees, checkpoints and bunkers in airstrikes Friday targeting the extremists in Syria and Iraq, as the U.S.-led coalition expanded to include Britain, Denmark and Belgium. The European countries committed...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Western-backed opposition force of around 12,000 to 15,000 will be needed to retake areas of eastern Syria controlled by Islamic State militants, the top U.S military officer said on Friday, as the Pentagon outlined the first steps in a U.S.-led...
Russia believes US-led air strikes against jihadists in Syria should be carried out in coordination with Syrian authorities and in accordance with international law, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. Lavrov was speaking after the United States this week extended an air...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Saudi authorities on Friday have deported a rebel commander to Istanbul after being detained in Jeddah airport for one day, as he was planning to perform the Hajj. The head of military council of Idlib, Col. Afif...
Antakya, Turkey (CNN) -- More than 20 Syrian rebel commanders, including members of Christian opposition groups, have signed off on what they called a historic agreement to unite in the fight against ISIS and President Bashar al-Assad's forces. The deal came out of a meeting...
By Al Hussein Al Shishakli Istanbul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Saudi Arabia has granted $700 thousand to members of Syrian Opposition’s National Coalition, including its leader, in their latest visit to the Kingdom last week. The political...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- After nine months of their killing by Syrian rebels in town northeast Damascus, their corpses have been buried in Qardaha, Bashar al-Assad’s hometown near Latakia. Haider Ismael and Ali Khozam were killed with...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key Syrian rebel groups, in a statement posted on their Twitter account on Thursday, condemned air strikes by a US-led coalition against Islamic State group, saying strikes would undermine the armed opposition and benefit Bashar al-Assad's regime....
(Reuters) - Air and missile strikes, thought to be carried out by U.S.-led forces, hit oilfields and Islamic State bases in the eastern Syria overnight and early Friday, a monitoring group said. U.S. and Arab forces started bombing Islamic State militants in northern and...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Around 1,000 recruits from a vast region stretching from India to the Pacific may have joined Islamic State to fight in Syria or Iraq, a senior U.S. military commander said on Thursday. "That number could get larger as we go forward," Navy...
(AFP)- The advance of Islamic State (IS) jihadists through Syria's Kurdish areas has thrown a serious obstacle in the way of efforts to make peace between Turkey and Kurdish militants, just when an end was in sight to a 30-year insurgency. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party...
LIMASSOL, Cyprus (AP) — A cruise ship picked up hundreds of people, apparently refugees who fled Syria, who were stranded aboard a small boat off Cyprus on Thursday, officials said. The Cypriot Defense Ministry the 345 people, including 52 children, would arrive at the country's...
"ISIS has been trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guard," claims late Syrian rebel leader. Just hours before an explosion wiped out the entire leadership of one of the most powerful rebel groups in Syria, the head of Ahrar Al-Sham Brigade spent four hours talking to Yvonne...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Thursday it is too early to say that the U.S.-led coalition was "winning" against the Islamic State, pointing to the group's continued access to financing, volunteers and weapons even after bombings in Syria and Iraq....
