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...

  Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State. A cessation of hostilities in Syria took effect three...

39 civilians killed in raids on Syria's Raqqa: activist (AFP)

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 people, including 5 women and 7children, were killed on Friday in Russian air strikes targeted the ISIS-held city of Raqqa northeastern Syria, the group's news agency and activists said. The Russian strikes on the Islamic group's de facto capital have stormed...

Syria's regime must do more to present its ideas about a political transition and not merely talk about principles of peacemaking, U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Friday after a fifth day of peace talks. The end of a week of talks in Geneva came as Syria neared the...

Russia has withdrawn most of its strike aircraft from Syria, the U.S. military said on Friday, adding that it was now entirely carrying out strikes in support of Syrian government forces using artillery instead of aircraft. "They still have helicopters and some transport aircraft. But what...

Syrian rebel factions on Friday condemned a declaration of federalism in Kurdish-controlled regions of northern Syria and vowed to resist it by force, a day after those areas voted to seek autonomy. A statement from a number of Syrian insurgent groups, some of whom are...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rallies commemorating the fifth anniversary of Syrian revolution have renewed on Friday across Syria, taking advantage of three weeks of 'cessation of hostilities' ceasefire deal despite the paralyzed peace talks in Geneva. In all rallies, people have assured their...

Millions of Syrian refugees just want to return home and will do so if peace talks in Geneva are successful and the fighting ends, a spokesman for the main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said on Friday. More than 4.8 million Syrians are refugees in countries...

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bambino centre for emotionally rehabilitate children in Western Ghouta of Damascus, supports and works to bring happiness to children, despite lack of support and fund in addition to high cost of almost everything....

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Europe needed to look at its own record on migrants before telling Turkey what to do, and said Turkey would only listen to Europe's criticism on rights when it is correct. In a speech broadcast live on television, Erdogan also said Europe was...

The Ministry of Interior has blacklisted nearly a dozen Lebanese journalists for suspected links to Hezbollah. Five Lebanese journalists in Kuwait will not have their residencies renewed and two others were given one month to leave the country, Al Rai Arabic newspaper reported yesterday. Other...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia could scale up its military presence in Syria again within hours and would still bomb terrorist groups there despite a partial draw-down of forces ordered after military successes. Speaking in one of the Kremlin's grandest...

The U.N. envoy for Syria says significant gaps remain between the sides taking part in the Syrian peace talks in Geneva. Staffan de Mistura emerged Thursday from the fourth day of talks to tell reporters that "the distance between the two sides is large." De Mistura is shuttling...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many families in Eastern countryside of Hasaka have started relying on the seasonal grasses and plants as an essential source of food as a result of the increase prices of the foods and other products which are not affordable for many of them. A...

A U.N. official in Syria says that despite the Russian troops' drawdown, the mission is looking to for continued help from Russia on aid deliveries in the war-torn country. Jan Egeland, supervisor of U.N. humanitarian aid shipments, says he hopes Russia will remain as...

The Syrian regime and its opponents have rejected a declaration by Syrian Kurds of a federal region in northern Syria. A statement issued by the Syrian Foreign Ministry says the declaration made in the town of Rmeilan in Syria's Hassakeh province Thursday is unconstitutional and worthless. It...

Russia will complete the withdrawal of the bulk of its forces from Syria before the end of the week, a top Russian general suggested in an interview published Thursday. "I think this will be over very quickly. Within the time-frame determined by (the president) and the defense minister. Today...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The 5th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution comes in conjunction with many calls to implement federalism in self-administrated regions under the sponsorship of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD). The flag of the Syrian Revolution was banned in these regions as well...