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Putin reaffirms Russia's support for Syria's Assad

President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia's support for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Friday and said he opposed any use of external force to try to end the Syrian civil war. Putin showed no sign of wavering in his policy of trying to shield Assad from pressure from the West in a 4...

Palestinians test second Nakba as Syria's crisis continues

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Sources reported to Zaman al-Wasl that Syrian regime’s militias demand money and bribery from Palestinian people to let them crossing barriers of the Syrian regime to reach to Turkey via Aleppo’s and Idlib countryside.  Sources mentioned that cost...

IS 'bans extra evening prayers during Ramadan'

An imam in the Iraqi ministry of religious affairs has said the Islamic State group has banned extra evening prayers during Ramadan in Mosul because it considers them heresy. Shiekh Saadoun al-Nuaimi told the Kurdish news agency, BasNews: "IS religious police have banned tarawih prayers...

Druze in Israeli-held Golan fear for Syrian brethren

Gathered at a hilltop in the Israeli-held Golan Heights, a group of Druze sheikhs look through binoculars at the Syrian village of Hader, surrounded by Islamist fighters. They fear their brethren are in imminent danger. Intense battles this week have left Syria's al Qaeda branch, the Nusra...