(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted an attack launched by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing 10 fighters and destroying a tank, opposition accounts said. The YPG-led alliance of Kurdish and Arab factions made rapid advances...

An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus on Tuesday by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt, who was arrested after giving himself up. The passengers and crew were unharmed. Eighty-one people, including 21...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  A new fire broke out in a Syrian refugee camp on the Turkish border, killing three children and wounding seven, Turkish media and activists said on Tuesday. The fire in Derik camp near Turkish Mardin city was the second in four days. About 7,000 Syrian refugees who...

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was seeking to re-settle more than 450,000 Syrian refugees, some one-tenth of those now in neighboring countries, by the end of 2018, but conceded that it was battling widespread fear and politicization of the issue. A ministerial-level...