A group of volunteer doctors associated with a Turkish aid group provided health services and humanitarian assistance to civilians in Syrian towns cleared of the terror group. Istanbul-based Yeryuzu Doktorlari Association (YDD) has helped thousands of people in 2018, according to a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fatma, an 8-year-old Syrian refugee girl found dead Wednesday morning after torrent of floodwaters swept her from a road in the northern Minyeh-Dinnieh district on Tuesday where she was playing with her sister, according to Zaman al-Wasl reporter. Minyeh...

Wednesday began five of the most crucial days ever for Britain's parliament as the debate on Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement resumed. Coming to the end of a road almost two-and-a-half years after British voters narrowly decided in 2016 to leave the EU, the Brexit...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- People and rebel factions of Maarret al-Nu'man have refused the hand over their town to Tahrir al-Sham as the former al-Qaeda branch seeks to gripe the noose on most of northern western Syria.  Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels and residents of town have...

Saudi Arabia is expected to announce a slight rise in its crude oil and gas reserves after being independently audited Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. Saudi Arabia's reserves of easily recoverable oil have long been the world's largest. For nearly 30...

Flooding across Lebanon inundated major highways and dozens of refugee settlements Tuesday. A Syrian girl remains missing and some 50 people were injured across the course of the day. A number of roads were forced to close due to the extreme flooding precipitated by storm Norma....

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey will not refrain from military action to protect its borders from what he describes as threats posed by Syrian Kurdish fighters. The minister spoke Wednesday, a day after Turkey rejected U.S. national security adviser John Bolton's...

The Kremlin said Wednesday that it expected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin soon, but that no date had yet been agreed. Russia and Turkey are both major players in the conflict in Syria and in September reached a...

The Assad regime in Syria “lost its legitimacy due to its atrocities against Syrian people,” according to Martin Longden, the U.K.’s special representative for Syria. Longden said on Twitter on Tuesday that the U.K. closed its embassy in Damascus in 2012 and “we have no plans to reopen...

The Syrian regime dropped thousands of internationally-banned barrel bombs in 2018, causing numerous civilian casualties in opposition-held parts of the country, a U.K.-based rights watchdog said Tuesday. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), as many as 185 civilians...

Khartoum (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday blamed conspirators for violence during deadly anti-government protests, as an impoverished town held a "martyrs' rally" to honour those killed. Bashir, speaking at a military base near the town of Atbara where the first...

Russian military police have begun patrolling around the Syrian city of Manbij, a spokesman said Tuesday, moving into an area once held by US-backed Kurdish forces. Russian forces are acting in support of Syrian government troops who recently deployed around Manbij, in Aleppo province...

 The flooding, heavy winds and severe drops in temperature in Lebanon affected the spontaneous camps of Syrian refugees in the majority of the country's areas, with over 50,000 people remaining in at-risk zones, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said. "UNHCR...

 Donald Trump’s national security adviser miscalculated if he thought he was going to dissuade Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from his planned offensive against U.S. allies in Syria. Erdogan rebuffed a meeting in Ankara on Tuesday with National Security Adviser John Bolton,...

Egypt and striker Mohamed Salah has been named African Footballer of the Year for the second successive year at the Confederation of African Football’s 2018 awards ceremony in Dakar on Tuesday. Just as he did 12 months ago, Salah beat fellow nominees including Liverpool FC teammate...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many young men in the eastern town of Al-Muhasan in Deir Ezzor province have joined the revolution since its early days and heavy prices are still being paid. Muhannad al-Jassim, who left the Journalism school at Damascus University of Damascus, was one of them....

Boeing reported record commercial plane deliveries for the second straight year on Tuesday, although the figures missed the company's forecast. The aerospace giant, which has capitalized on rising global demand for air travel, reported deliveries of 806 planes for the year, up from 763...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Aida al-Haj Yousif, the former detainee, tells the story of Umm Osama who was detained while rescuing her wounded son by Assad security in Homs city to be held later in Adra prison over claims she is a terrorist. At the beginning of 2016, after a long journey from...

A top European Union official warned Tuesday the bloc will have to take urgent action to fill a multi billion-euro black hole in the event of no-deal Brexit with Britain. In the event of a "disorderly" departure by Britain on March 29, "we would be short a figure in the billions of...

A cross-party group of lawmakers have called on the Metropolitan police to take a tougher stance on the verbal abuse and harassment of MPs outside parliament. Over 55 MPs wrote the scathing letter to Cressida Dick, the head of the Metropolitan police, after Conservative MP Anna Soubry...