(Zaman Al Wasl)- Friday Prayers have been suspended in the northern countryside of  Homs as regime forces keep violating a one-week-old truce, according to statement issued by Shariah Court.   The main clergy body in Hola region said fears over worshipers lives make the...

The U.S. military has announced two new airstrikes against Al-Shabab extremists in Somalia, and Somalia's president says the joint operation killed a high-level leader of the group. The U.S. statement says the airstrikes were carried out Thursday near the Banadiir region in southern Somalia....

 U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State fighters surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months. "We've cleared about half of Old Raqqa ... and we're advancing on all axes," said Haval Gabar,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta, said on Thursday it had ambushed army’s elite forces in Ein Tarma, for the second time in 48 hours, leaving 20 soldiers, spokesman said. The elite forces of Fourth Armoured Division...