Translation by Dani Murad After long months of negotiations, a swap operation has been conducted to free a number of regime’s soldiers who were held prisoners with Ghutta's rebels in exchange for a family of four, a father (Mohammad Murjan, a mother...

(Reuters) - Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan told a cheering arena of 16,000 diaspora supporters in Germany on Saturday to integrate but not assimilate and slammed German criticism of his response to a mining tragedy, in a defiant hour-long speech. Earlier in Cologne some 45,000...

DAMASCUS (Zaman Alwasl)- Local sources from the embattled neighborhood of al-Esali near Damascus said vigorous efforts had been made by Syrian regime to reach a cease-fire agreement amid objections by regimes backed militias. The cease-fire...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels and government forces have agreed to a truce in an opposition-held area near the central city of Homs, activists said Saturday. The cease-fire, which started on Friday, comes as troops loyal to President Bashar Assad are trying to seize as many...