Federal prosecutors have documented at least 350 instances of faulty background investigations done by private contractors and special agents for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in recent years, illustrating what some lawmakers call systemic weaknesses in the granting of federal...

In early June 2011, some three months into the uprising against the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Syrian government forces began preparing for a large-scale assault on Jisr al-Shughour, a rebellious border town sixty-five miles southwest of Aleppo. The events that led to this...

Turkish Authorities continued the close of both main border crossing in Bab al-Hawa, Bab al-Salameh and  Tal Abyad over  security reasons,  Zaman Alwasl correspondent reported.  Jarablous border crossing is the only  available  escape for ...

Emir of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham “ISIS” In Aleppo has announced declining Azaz agreement  between ISIS and the North Storm Brigade which was signed in presence of mediators from al-Tawheed brigade, w ell-informed source reported to Zaman Alwasl . The...