Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Turkish newspaper confirmed that aircraft of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was harassed by two F16s when Erdogan was returning to Istanbul from a holiday in Marmaris south of Turkey during the coup attempt. The Daily Sabah Newspaper...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- The issue of forming a military council in Syria was not proposed on table before last June. Zaman al-Wasl rushed to reveal the features of this council after Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu’s visit to Syria and...

Reporting by Ethar Abdul Haq; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- The word secret spread adopted by Le Monde, the French newspaper, to describe tbe the agreement between Ankara and Washington regarding the current battles in Manbij and its surrounding areas which Mevlut Cavusoglu, the...

Deadly attacks in four countries linked to Islamic State show the limitations of U.S.-led efforts to loosen the group's grip in Syria and Iraq, and the challenge of stopping attacks that are not only globally dispersed but very different in their choice of targets, current and former U.S....

Writing by Adnan Abdelrazak; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)-The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced on Saturday Turkey is determined to give Turkish citizenship to Syrian refugees’ resident in its territories, and that the possibility of giving citizenship to the...

By Adnan Abdelrazak (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey zero problems times’ designed by Ahmad Davutoglu as chancellor and implement by President of Government Erdogan until 2012 have finished. Now, there is different time with different men. What happened after the Syrian revolution is different from...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition scene was busied following the Russian minister of defense’s Sergey Shoygu’s visit with targeting al-Assad’s status, which is decreasing anyway, by describing him as lacking in sovereignty,...

Writing by Malek Oqab; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The strategic Russian nuclear bomber tu-95 appeared flying in Idlib province during the past few days. tu-95 was flying towards Russia-held Hmeymim air base in coastal Latakia province, sources said. The airport now is known...

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- No Rebel faction on Syrian soil has paid as much of a price from its leaders’ blood as the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham movement did. Many leaders of the movement have been killed in a series of assassinations which stir many...

(Zama al-Wasl)- Russia officially began military air campaign in Syria on September 30 last year. According to experts, the Russian operations were more like training since the rebels do not have anti-aircraft weapons. Still, the rebels caused Russia, the second powerful state militarily,...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The war on al-Fallujah is complicated and holds particular symbolism, on the surface a war of trickery controlled by excuses and an ideological and sectarian war when read between the lines.  It is a righteous war where the nullification of...

Writing by Abdul Monem Halabi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- A significant difference in the exchange rate of the U.S dollar against the Syrian pound has been remarked in besieged areas, where the Lira seems to be in better value. There are many reasons behind the better value of the...

 A century after Britain and France secretly mapped out a Middle East they would control upon defeating the Ottomans in World War One, its borders have been blurred by sectarian bloodshed - and some in the region see opportunity in the chaos. These include Israelis or Kurds who seek to...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- The sectarian discourse was never absent from regime media outlets. The regime media in its discourse hid a provocative sectarian discourse and it appears on the surface whenever a civilian Alwaite is killed or when the regime orders so. When the Zara village in southern...

(Eqtsad)- In truth it is not a cross road, but only one road and obligatory direction… it is depreciation. But the question which occupies everyone’s mind today is, “what is the speed of the depreciation? And are we witnessing a complete collapse of the Syrian Pound during a short period of...

A raid on Egypt’s journalists’ union head office this week could intensify opposition to President Abdel Fattah el Sisi, according to analysts. On Sunday, police stormed the headquarters of the press syndicate in Cairo, arresting two journalists for allegedly inciting protests and plotting to...

  Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- “when the fox is caught, he plays dead,” an expression a colleague on Facebook “made as a special dedication to BBC’s professional consciousness and the English humanitarian consciousness on the eve of their...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- When Syria's uprising erupted 5 years ago with a peaceful demonstrations to topple Bashar Assad, Syrians- suddenly- found themselves trapped as crackdown was surrounding them everywhere. Death toll was rising and no concrete efforts made by the International community to stop...

One year after receiving them at Camp David, U.S. President Barack Obama meets Gulf leaders again Thursday, hoping they can more strongly commit to the fight against extremists. At the same time, with nine months left in his term, the president must again seek to reassure his Sunni allies...

Islamic State's income and the population under its control have both fallen by about a third, a U.S.-based analysis firm said, describing the declining revenue as a threat to its long-term rule over its self-proclaimed caliphate. Revenue for the ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim group,...