The ceasefire in Syria is broadly holding but the United States should be doing more to support it, Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The ministry said Russian monitors had registered no violations of the ceasefire involving the use of heavy weapons within...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Houla region in the northwest countryside of Homs province was one of the first towns which came out in peaceful demonstration and they were the biggest gatherings. Zaman Al Wasl tried on the 5th anniversary of the Syrian revolution to examine...

More than 900 migrants were rescued in four separate operations in the Strait of Sicily on Saturday and emergency services recovered one corpse, Italy's coast guard said. Now into the second year of its worst migration crisis since World War Two, Europe has seen more than 1.2...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters took three villages from the Islamic State in northern Aleppo province near the Turkish border, local reporter said on Saturday. The moderate rebels have seized control of al-Jakka, al-Kamaliya and Mrigel in the last 48 hours. Meanwhile, the rallies...