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(Al Jazeera)- Syria's neighbours have urged European countries to open their doors to more refugees from the civil war and for immediate financial and technological help as their infrastructures buckle under the massive influx. More than three million people have...
At least 30 Syrian regime soldiers were killed Monday in a major joint operation by opposition forces, which included the Al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front in Idlib, activists said. The Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC) said in a statement that the Free Syrian...
(Reuters) - Tunisia's Ennahda party, the first Islamist movement to secure power after the 2011 "Arab Spring" revolts, conceded defeat on Monday in elections that are set to make its main secular rival the strongest force in parliament. Official results from Sunday's...
(Reuters) - A British surgeon who died in a Syrian prison last year days before his planned release was unlawfully killed, a London jury investigating the case ruled on Monday. Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old orthopedic surgeon from London, was detained in Syria almost two years...
(Reuters) - Islamist militants linked to Al Qaeda stormed the government building in Idlib, northern Syria, on Monday and opened up a new front in a city that has been controlled by President Bashar al-Assad's forces for more than a year, both sides said. State television said...
(Reuters) - The United States does not expect Syrian rebels it plans to train to fight Islamic State militants to also take on President Bashar al-Assad's forces, but sees them as a crucial part of a political solution to end the war, a senior U.S. official said. The United...
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(Zaman Al Wasl)- It has been one month since the Political Commission of the National Coalition asked its delegation to Saudi Arabia to deliver $700,000 was granted by the kingdom to the opposition group. Zaman al-Wasl source said just the NC deputy, Mohamed Qaddah, had...
(AFP)- Syrian government airstrikes on two rebel-held areas of the central province of Homs killed at least 25 civilians, 11 of them children, a monitoring group said on Sunday. Sixteen members of a single family were among 18 people killed in raids late-Saturday on the town of...
(Reuters) - Iraqi government forces and Shi'ite militias seized control of the strategic town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from Islamic State on Saturday and Kurdish fighters made gains in the north after heavy coalition air strikes against the Sunni militants. Iraqi troops...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies conducted 22 air strikes against Islamic State forces in Iraq on Friday and Saturday, the U.S. Central Command said. U.S. warplanes also destroyed an Islamic State artillery piece near Kobani, Syria, officials...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels fought fierce clashes with loyalist troops Saturday as they tried to secure their supply line to Aleppo against advances by the army, an activist group said. The clashes in the divided area of Handarat just north of Aleppo, came a day after fighting that...
By Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed ANKARA-(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey solely to create a “safe zone” to the North of Syria, to face the expected new influx of Syrian refugees, as a result of the ongoing fighting with regime and ISIS, and closure...
Ten children and five women have been killed in Syrian government air strikes in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said Friday. The children, aged from four to 10, and women were killed Thursday "in barrel bomb strikes by regime helicopters on a home and public...
Writing by Zaman Staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Al-Hasakah (Zaman Al Wasl) - Christian Community and organizations in al-Hasakah province have united their efforts and visions toward the recent exceptional circumstances the country. 9...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey's president said Friday that Ankara would allow hundreds of Syrian rebels to travel to the embattled border town of Kobani in order to help Kurdish fighters there fend off an Islamic State onslaught, AP reported. But Syrian...
MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — New allegations have emerged that Islamic State extremists have expanded their arsenal with chlorine bombs and captured fighter jets — weapons that could help the militants in Iraq and Syria. Kurdish fighters in the key Syrian border town of Kobani have...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Turkey's president said Friday that Ankara would allow hundreds of Syrian rebels to travel to the embattled border town of Kobani in order to help Kurdish fighters there fend off an Islamic State onslaught. But Syrian opposition activists denied there were...
