Thousands of people are starting to return to formerly rebel-held east Aleppo despite freezing weather and destruction "beyond imagination", a top U.N. official told Reuters from the Syrian city. In the last couple of days around 2,200 families have returned to the Hanano housing district,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition's main political body to hold meeting in Riyadh next week to discuss the ongoing nationwide ceasefire and the upcoming Astana peace talks, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Saudi-backed High Negotiations Committee (HNC) to convene next Tuesday amid discords...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The first signs of the American occupation of the oil-rich areas in Hasaka province were clear in 2016, after the expansion of its ally Democratic Union Party (PYD) that surprisingly moved from calling for Self- Administration to “federal system”, moreover, it allowed...

 At least three soldiers were killed in clashes with al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen in an operation launched by the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi, security sources said. They said at least 10 other soldiers were wounded when troops were...