President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday announced early presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24. Speaking at a news conference at the presidential complex following a meeting with opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) head Devlet Bahceli, Erdogan said:...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian army on Wednesday met with the negotiation committee in northern Homs and southern Hama a day after the regime forces halted major attack began on the opposition-held areas. The committee said a long-term ceasefire would be the ground for any further...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime halted its attack on rebel-held area in central Homs and Hama provinces after rebels cut the main water supplies to government areas, pro-regime activists said Tuesday. The regime has succumbed to the threat of cutting off drinking...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels in Dumayr east of Damascus will be evacuated to the town of Jarablus at the Turkish border as they agreed to lay down their arms and to hand over the town to the regime army, local activists said. The evacuation will begin on Thursday as regime forces gave...