An assailant attempted to shoot a prominent Turkish journalist Friday outside a courthouse in Istanbul just before the verdict in his trial on charges of revealing state secrets was due to be announced, a Reuters witness said. The assailant shouted "traitor" before firing at least three shots...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Abo Khalid have lost his brother-in-law and all his children, he will never hear the word “uncle” after that, but the tragedy is that he does not know where they graves are, to at least visit them and pray for them, this is one of the uncountable...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A surprising act of the Syrian regime prevented residents of the countryside of Latakia who left to the city from returning to their villages under its control. The news of dismissing and denying access of people to their villages after leaving them...

Rebels seized a village from government forces near Aleppo overnight, a monitoring group and rebel sources said on Friday, gaining important ground near the Syrian city where the United States and Russia are trying to de-escalate the war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 73 people...