(Zaman Al Wasl-AFP)- Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels battling Kurdish militia in northern Syria advanced on Saturday to within just a few kilometres of the flashpoint town of Afrin, a war monitor said. The move came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his...

Two German journalists were arrested in a Greek forbidden military zone near the Turkish border on Friday, local media reported. The arrests of the man and woman, aged 31 and 33 respectively, were made in Didymoteicho district of northeastern Evros province, according to Kathimerini...

The leader of an Iranian spiritual movement, whose repeated death sentences drew UN and US condemnation, has been given a five-year jail term after a second retrial, his lawyer said Saturday. In June 2015 and again in September last year, the courts found Mohammad Ali Taheri guilty of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday took a strategic post from the ISIS branch in southern Syria, foiling an ISIS attempt to slice opposition-held area in two between Qunietra nad Daraa provinces, local activists said. Abdullah al-Shami said the resistance factions had...