(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's al Qaeda offshoot, the Nusra Front, backed by rebel factions on Monday has thwarted regime attack on Tal Hadya town in the southern countryside of Aleppo province. Zaman Al Wasl reporter said rebels and jihadist groups have inflicted heavy losses on regime troops and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Bashar Assad to either leave office and make room for a transitional government or be forced out, Israeli officials told an Israeli daily. According to The Times of Israel, Putin delivered his ultimatum at a meeting between the two in...

After the deadliest attack on Europe in over a decade, Britain said on Monday it would hire more spies while France called for better intelligence sharing and tougher controls on the EU's external borders against arms smugglers and Islamist militants. Islamic State warned in...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leishmaniasis, or “Aleppo boil”, has spread among the regime's soldiers and other militias  in the eastern countryside of central Homs province, the outskirts of Palmyra city and the center. The spread of the disease among a large number of...