(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has killed the captive pilot after his warplane was shot down by the powerful Islam Army group northeast of Damascus on Friday, according to statement posted online by Islam Army.   A spokesman for Jaish al-Islam rebels, who...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces waged an arrest campaign tracking 17,000 people who escaped conscription in the coastal city of Latakia, amid severe shortage in manpower in the army, activists said. Activist Abo Ahmed Lazqani reported to Zaman Al Wasl that the...

Trucks carrying medical and food aid entered two blockaded towns near Damascus on Wednesday, meaning that humanitarian agencies have now reached all besieged areas of Syria this year, the United Nations said. The 38-truck convoy carried aid for some 20,000 people the U.N. estimates are living...

At least 36 people were killed Tuesday evening in a suicide attack at the international terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport, the city's governor and media reports said. Two explosions hit the airport -- Turkey's biggest -- followed by gunfire, local television channels reported, adding that...