Damascus (AFP) - Twin car bomb explosions in the central Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday killed at least 18 people, mostly children, and wounded 40 others, state news agency SANA reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, reported the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels' latest advance in the strategic town of Harasta, 4 miles away from the capital center, has startled Syrian regime armed troops since they found their stubborn headquarters of air-forces intelligence being under constant heavy shelling....

Writing by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Political Body of the National Coalition has issued an order to sack Adnan Hazori, the Minister of Health in the Interim Government , and Suhair Atasi, Head of the Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU), besides many employees, following...

ARBIL Iraq/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish troops drove Islamic State fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Tuesday and won the support of members of a major Sunni tribe, in one of the biggest successes since U.S. forces began bombing the Islamists. The...

By Esra Kaymak Avci “Social and perceived discrimination” is the reason why young people from Europe are going overseas to join dangerous extremist groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. This is according to a Europe-based researcher who claims that...

Islamic State insurgents are advancing on a tomb in northern Syria regarded by Turkey as sovereign territory and guarded by Turkish soldiers, Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Tuesday, Reuters said. Ankara sees the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the...

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BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say the U.S.-led coalition has struck targets of the Islamic State group near a besieged Kurdish town along Syria's border with Turkey. It was not immediately clear if Tuesday's airstrikes succeeded in halting the militants' advance on Koubani, also known...

REYHANLI Turkey (Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes against al Qaeda-inspired militants in Syria pose a problem for moderate rebel opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Western-backed rebels say they face a backlash from Syrians angered by...

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria's foreign minister said Monday that his government is satisfied with the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State group, adding that the airstrikes should be expanded to include all other militant groups in Syria. In an interview with The...

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Islamic State jihadists advanced Monday to within five kilometres (three miles) of the key Kurdish town of Ain al-Arab on Syria's border with Turkey, a monitor said. The jihadists fired a volley of rockets that hit the town centre, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said,...

BEIRUT (The Daily Star): Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas Saturday further lobbied for his proposal to establish refugee camps for Syrians, saying Kuwait was ready to fund the camps that would better organize the overwhelming presence of refugees in the country. “The...

Reporting by Lama Shammas; Writing by Yusra Ahmed ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Step, theatrical band, consists of Syrian youth, was founded in Aleppo, but now it performs some shows in Istanbul. “The band was founded in 2012, used to consist...

Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- Source from the Syrian Interim Government reported to Zaman al-Wasl that Ahmed Tomeh, the Interim Prime Minister, has issued an order preventing employees and customers from letting...

(Reuters) - The head of Syria's al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has said U.S.-led air strikes will not defeat Islamists in Syria and warned that militants might launch retaliatory attacks against Western countries. Abu Mohamad al-Golani, in an audio message posted on pro-Nusra jihadi...