Syrian government forces advanced into Palmyra Saturday with heavy support from airstrikes and artillery, state media and activists said, taking control of several districts in a major assault against ISIS fighters. Television footage showed waves of explosions inside Palmyra and...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Houla region in the northwest countryside of Homs province was one of the first towns which came out in peaceful demonstration and they were the biggest gatherings. Zaman Al Wasl tried on the 5th anniversary of the Syrian revolution to examine...

  At least 13 Egyptian policemen were killed in the Sinai Peninsula when Islamist militants fired a mortar round at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said on Saturday. Islamic State claimed responsibility on several websites for the...

Iran said on Thursday that its test-firing of ballistic missiles, designed to be able to hit Israel, were not a violation of a landmark nuclear deal reached in 2015 with six major powers, state TV quoted a senior official as saying. "Iran's missile program and its test-firing of...