Moderate opposition groups on Thursday took control of Saraqib, a strategic district in Syria's restive Idlib province, from the Assad regime forces. This comes after these groups on Monday took another strategic village, al-Nayrab in Saraqib, a gateway to Idlib. In September 2018,...

Hong Kong's riot police officers will begin returning to regular law enforcement duties such as crime prevention and traffic control because violent pro-democracy protests have faded, the force said on Thursday. The announcement came a day after the force was given a 25 percent bump in its...

(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...