(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...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Asayish forces, key unit in the the Democratic Union Party (PYD), tried to seize number of houses belong to immigrants of Syriac in the city centre of Hasaka. Activist "Mahmoud al-Ahmad" said Asayish  had occupied some of the closed houses belong to Syriac families left...

 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....

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl archive of Islamic State registration forms revealed more data regarding ISIS members from a Bahraini family and were appointed to high profile posts; one of them is Ali al-Binali nicknamed as Abu Musab al-Bahraini killed two days...