Turkish police have seized more than 2,500 unsafe life jackets destined for migrants wanting to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece, in the latest crackdown on businesses exploiting refugees in western Turkey, reports said Friday. Police raided 120 underground workshops and companies in eight...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed source said Syria's exiled opposition, the National Coalition, is to elect Riad Hijab, former Prime Minister, as a successor of Khaled Khoja this week. Hijab was appointed last month in Riyadh as the General Coordinator of the High Negotiation Committee that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 people, including 7 children, have been killed in Russia's vacuum missile attack on a border town with Turkey, activists said Friday. The 4-month-old Russian aerial campaign has targeted the town of Sarmada and the neighboring district of Bab al Hawa border...

 Pictures of  Bashar Assad hang on nearly every building in the town of Salma, which regime troops captured last week in one of their most significant advances since Russia intervened militarily on their side. The Syrian government offensive has given Assad a stronger hand going into...