Syria's main opposition group said it would attend peace talks on Monday but accused the government of President Bashar al-Assad of preparing to escalate the war to strengthen its negotiating position. The U.N.-brokered talks, which coincide with the fifth anniversary of the...

Syrian rebels on Saturday have shot down a regime warplane in the northern countryside of Hama province, although there were conflicting accounts on whether it had been brought down by a missile or anti-aircraft guns, state-run TV and group monitoring the conflict said. The Syrian Observatory...

Turkey has accepted at least 90 migrants who were in neighboring Greece as part of a recent agreement between the two countries. The migrants from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Pakistan – and accompanied by Greek police – were taken to the Ipsala border checkpoint in northwestern Turkey on...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- At least 35 French jihadists joined Islamic State between 2013 and 2014, 14 of them were Arabs, Turks, Afghan and Senegalese, according to the leaked ISIS data base that obtained by Zaman al-Wasl last December and published on January 20. The...