(The New York Times)- More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration’s policy in Syria , urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior official in European Parliament received the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Party Leader Salah Demirtas in Brussels on Tuesday. They walked in the corridors of the parliament whose walls carried flags of Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source disclaimed circulated news in the media about Russia establishing a new military base in Palmyra airport following recapture of archeological city from Islamic State. The source told Zaman al-Wasl the rumors are incorrect confirming the Russians established a...

 Islamic State's "terrorism capacity and global reach" have not been reduced, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency said on Thursday, adding that the group has tens of thousands of fighters around the world, far more than al Qaeda had at its height. John Brennan told U.S....