(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...

The United Nations will not disclose to a Saudi Arabia-led coalition sensitive sources of information that led the world body to briefly blacklist it for maiming and killing children in Yemen, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. Saudi U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, in a June 8 letter...

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...