Three-day conference gets under way in Saudi capital Riyadh without Kurdish groups, which are holding their own meeting. Saudi Arabia is  hosting a three-day meeting in Riyadh to try to unite the Syrian opposition before potential talks with the government of President Bashar al-Assad....

  Al Jazeera cameraman Zakaria Ibrahim has died six days after he was injured by shrapnel while covering a Syrian army bombardment in the province of Homs. Ibrahim, who died from his injuries on Monday, was in the village of Teldo to report on what was expected to be a...

At least six children died and eight other people rescued on Tuesday after a boat carrying migrants bound for Greece capsized off Turkey's western coast near the city of Izmir, local media reported. Responding to a distress signal sent at midnight on Monday, the Turkish coastguard extended a...

The United Nations voiced concern on Tuesday at the fate of 12,000 Syrian refugees stranded at the Syria-Jordan border in deteriorating humanitarian conditions. "The lives of refugees will be at risk in the coming months," Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS said Tuesday it was "assessing the credibility" of reports its strikes killed at least 26 civilians in a Syrian village Monday. "Every time we get information about the possibility of a civilian casualty incident, we always do a credibility assessment on...

Syria's rebel and opposition groups are trying to forge a common stance over negotiations to end the civil war but the absence of some prominent activists and a main Kurdish force from their meeting in Riyadh shows that unity remains elusive. Saudi Arabia, a strong supporter of rebels fighting...

Russia has asked the United Nations Security Council to hold closed-door discussions on Turkish military action in Syria and Iraq, diplomats said on Monday, in the latest sign of increasing tensions between Moscow and Ankara. Russia's U.N. mission had no immediate comment. But council...

Canada's new Liberal government will act within weeks to fulfill a campaign promise to withdraw six fighter jets that have been attacking Islamic State positions in Iraq and Syria, a top official said on Monday. The Liberals, who took power last month, say Canada can contribute more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zahran Alloush, Islam Army's commander, will not attend Syrian opposition meeting due to begin in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, source told Zaman al Wasl. Islam Army, or Jaysh al-Islam, is one of the most powerful rebel groups in Syria that operates in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near...

Fourteen people were killed and another 20 injured Monday by airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes on opposition-held parts of Syria’s Aleppo province. According to local civil defense sources, Russian warplanes also struck Aleppo’s opposition-held Sukkari, Al-Hulk and Firdevs districts....

A Syrian opposition meeting due to begin in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday marks the most serious effort yet to unify President Bashar al-Assad's fragmented enemies, a step seen vital to peace talks sought by world powers but which has riled Iran. While the outlook for the political track recently...

Countries that reject Syrian refugees because they are Muslims are fuelling Islamic State and other militant groups and contributing to the threat of terrorism, U.N. refugee chief Antonio Guterres said on Monday. "When people say they cannot receive Syrian refugees because they are Muslims,...

Syria expressed outrage Monday after a suspected US-led coalition strike for the first time killed regime troops, but the coalition denied its warplanes hit an army base. In a letter to the United Nations Security Council and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Syria's...

 The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group denied Monday its planes carried out air strikes that killed at least three Syrian regime troops a day earlier. "We've seen those Syrian reports but we did not conduct any strikes in that part of Deir Ezzor yesterday. So we see no...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs have killed 18 people on Sunday, activists and medics said. Regime's missile attack on Zamalka outskirt east of the capital has left at least 15 people dead and dozens wounded. Three more people have lost...

Energy links between Bashar al-Assad’s regime and Islamic State stretch beyond oil, according to a Turkish security source that spoke to Anadolu Agency. The Syrian regime and ISIS, which controls most oil and gas fields in Syria, have been cooperating over power supplies as well as trading...

Humanitarian aid has reached a besieged rebel-held area in the central Syrian city of Homs, part of a local ceasefire deal that is to include the withdrawal of opposition fighters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. In a delivery presided over by the United Nations, food and...

Saudi Arabia will host a meeting of Syrian opposition groups in Riyadh from Dec. 8-10 aimed at choosing representatives for future international talks on Syria, the official Saudi Press Agency said on Sunday. The Saudi conference marks an attempt to bring together disparate groups...

 At least 32 people, including 8 children and 5 women, were killed on Sunday in apparent US-led coalition air strikes on the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa province, activists and monitor said. He said the wave of raids hit IS bases to the north, east and...

(By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ( Zaman Al Wasl) - About 20 days ago, rebels in the southern countryside of Aleppo targeted the armored car of   Qassem Soleimani,  commander of the  Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force....