Saudi Arabia on Thursday halted travel to the holiest sites in Islam over fears about a viral epidemic just months ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage, a move that came as the Mideast has over 240 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. The extraordinary decision by Saudi Arabia stops...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey-backed Syrian opposition fighters on Thursday retook a key northwestern town in Syria that was recently captured by regime forces, and cut the highway linking the capital, Damascus, with the northern city of Aleppo. The development comes days after the regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition factions took two villages and a town from Russian-led regime forces near the strategic highways in northern Idlib province, rebel source told Zaman al-Wasl Wednesday. Backed by heavy Turkish artillery fire, the Syrian National Army launched a major...

Turkey plans to push Syrian regime forces away from its military observation posts in northwest Syria's Idlib region this week, President Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, despite continued advances by Damascus's Russian-backed military. Nearly a million Syrians have been displaced in the last...