The main Turkish-backed rebel army has deployed along frontlines close to militants in northwest Syria to repel any new militant advance after an offensive that expanded their control over the country's last rebel-held bastion, rebels and residents said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Sunday...

The Palestinian Authority said Sunday it was withdrawing staff from the Rafah border post with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip to protest against "brutal practices" by rival faction Hamas. "This decision comes in the light of recent developments and brutal practices of the de facto...

 Lebanon Sunday began to feel the impact of a heavy storm that is expected to gather force in the upcoming days, bringing more snow to Lebanon’s peaks, the Lebanese Daily Star reported. But such news will increase the suffering of Syrian refugees who are stranded throughout Lebanon...

The death toll from the powerful storm Usman that triggered landslides and flash flood in the Philippines has climbed to 126, Chinese official news agency reported on Sunday. Xinhua cited the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) as saying that 26 people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tahrir al-Sham militants have blocked main crossings link between Aleppo and Idlib provinces, such a move reflects the mounting power of the former al-Qaeda group.  Abdul Razaq Shelo, resident in Atareb town, told Zaman al-Wasl that Tahrir al-Sham shut down the...

U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman said on Sunday that his administration's plan for peace in the Middle East would be delayed.   In statements he gave during a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, to Israel, Friedman said the rollout...

Two British soldiers were wounded Saturday in eastern Syria by a missile fired by Daesh (ISIS) an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the pair were part of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militants. "The two British soldiers were transported by...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Heavy losses inflicted on the Russian air force in 2018, as more than 40 military personnel killed in air crash accidents in Syria.  Russia, which ranks as the second air force in the world after the U.S., has lost five warplanes in Syria in 2018,...

Egypt’s president Sisi will inaugurate the country’s biggest cathedral on Coptic Christmas Eve Sunday, a day after a deadly bomb blast near a church in a country where jihadists have repeatedly targeted Christians. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday’s explosion...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began her term as the youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress with a bang this week by proposing to tax the ultra-rich at 60 or 70 percent. The daughter of working-class parents, the 29-year-old New Yorker was following up on her campaign promise....

An 18-year-old Saudi woman seeking asylum was denied entry to Thailand and held in Bangkok's airport, a Thai official said Sunday. Rahaf Mohammad M. Alqunun "ran away from her family to avoid marriage and she is concerned she may be in trouble returning to Saudi Arabia," Thailand's...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- Militant Tahrir al-Sham group will take full control of the town of Atareb in northern Aleppo province after it agreed with rebels to dissolve two local factions, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The besieged Atareb came under heavy bombardment by Tahrir...

Egypt's Interior Ministry said a policeman was killed as he was trying to defuse an explosive device near a church in a residential Cairo district. The ministry said the blast late Saturday also wounded the commander of the bomb squad and another policeman. The device was in a suitcase...

The Taliban will not attend planned peace talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia this month, and want to shift the venue to Qatar, Taliban officials said Sunday, seeking to fend off Riyadh's push to include the Afghan government in talks. The upcoming negotiations, the fourth in a...

Firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s parliamentary bloc has reiterated rejection of the presence of U.S. troops in Iraqi capital Baghdad. On Saturday, images of Brig. Gen. Austin Renforth, Director of Joint Operations-Iraq for the Combined Joint Task Force, while touring the...

A Palestinian youth was seriously injured in an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh on Sunday, according to the Health Ministry. Israeli forces raided the city and searched a number of houses and shops, triggering clashes with local residents. Witnesses said Israeli...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Representative in Bosnia Herzegovina Geeta Narayan said that young people are leaving Bosnia because they lost patience. Speaking to Anadolu Agency in an interview, Narayan said that youth of Bosnia has lost the patience due to lack of hearing...

A major 6.8-magnitude earthquake shook on Sunday northwestern Brazil, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The epicenter of the quake was 89 kilometers (55 miles) west of Tarauaca, Brazil, and 329 kilometers (204 miles) east of Pucallpa, Peru. The quake struck Tarauaca at a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tahrir al-Sham militants has listed 8 activist women on their wanted list in northern Aleppo province, saying they incited people against the radical group and its mounting abuses, document obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed.    Most of the women are from the town...

Nearly 295,000 Syrians, who fled the civil war in their country, have returned to home from Turkey in 2018, according to Turkish Interior Ministry on Saturday. Turkey’s Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch operations in northwestern Syria liberated the region of YPG/PKK and Daesh...