(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two people have died due to unknown epidemic that has the same symptoms of flu in Tal Abyad town in the eastern province of Raqqa, local activists said Thursday. Many people have been suffering high fever, joint pain and headache. Medics and activists have called on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Field sources said two clerics were abducted on Thursday by al-Muthanna Islamic movement in the southern province of Daraa. Sheikh Khaled Zein al Abedin, head of Ahel Horan association, and Sheikh Yousef la-Amer were kidnapped in the western countryside by militants affiliated...

At least 12 refugees have drowned in the Aegean Sea after their boat sank near the Foca district of the western Turkish province of Izmir. The Turkish Coast Guard found the bodies on Thursday while on patrol. However, 26 other people were rescued, including children and women, and 12 more...

Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that three Americans who disappeared in Iraq last week "just went missing," and he very much doubted any Iranian involvement. Asked by a pool reporter at the start of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Davos...