Israeli media reported Saturday that security agencies are on high alert fearing a possible Houthi retaliation following a joint Israeli-American-British airstrikes on targets in Yemen on Friday. According to the Houthi group and Israeli confirmation, the strikes, which involved 25 air raids,...

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Friday reaffirmed his country's insistence on Israel’s full withdrawal from all Lebanese territories, according to a statement. It came during Aoun's meeting with the leader of the Greek Cypriot Administration, Nikos Christodoulides, at the Presidential...

The speed and intensity of the blazes ravaging Los Angeles this week have put its firefighting infrastructure to the test -- and given rise to questions and criticism surrounding preparedness. Hydrants ran dry in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood as it was ravaged by one of the region’s...

Lawyers representing victims in Syria encouraged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to 'urgently' issue arrest warrants for Bashar al-Assad and 17 senior officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity. In a statement Thursday after meeting Syrian authorities, Gulden Sonmez and Cihat...

The Dutch Ministry of Asylum and Migration has announced its intention to forcibly return Syrian refugees in the long term, RTL Nieuws reported. The Netherlands is seeking to follow in the footsteps of other countries such as Germany and Austria, which have announced a reassessment of the...

Four Palestinians were killed and many others injured on Saturday in Israeli airstrikes targeting Gaza City, officials and sources said. A medical source told Anadolu that three Palestinians were killed and others injured in an airstrike on an apartment near Al-Kanz Mosque in Al-Rimal...

Palestinian media organizations condemned the killing Friday of Saed Abu Nabhan, a freelance Anadolu cameraman in the Gaza Strip. Abu Nabhan, who was covering events in the Nuseirat refugee camp, was "martyred by the bullets of Israeli snipers," according to a statement from the Gaza Media...

Military operations continued in northern Syria on Friday, with a noticeable escalation between Turkish forces and allied Syrian factions, on the one hand, and the US-backed  Kurdish militias, which led to deaths of dozens over the week. Informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that Turkish...

The Palestinian telecommunications chief on Friday warned of the interruption of phone and internet services in the war-torn Gaza Strip due to fuel shortages. Abdul Razzaq Al-Natsheh said that phone and internet services in Gaza will be affected starting Friday evening due to fuel shortages....

Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed that the number of Syrians who have returned to their country since the fall of the Baath regime on December 8 has reached 52,622 people. This came in a statement made by Yerlikaya to journalists during his presence on Thursday at the...

Four people were killed and 16 injured in a stampede in the landmark Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Friday, the Syrian state news agency (SANA) said. The crush “during a civilian event at the mosque... resulted in the death of three people,” Governor Maher Marwan told SANA. The White...

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday that his country is ready to enhance economic cooperation with Syria and build "strategic partnerships", stressing that Rome will play its role in lifting the sanctions imposed on the ousted regime. This came in a speech during a press...

Turkey has no intention of taking over any part of Syria following the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Friday. “Turkey has no eye on any part of Syrian territory,” he said at a news conference in Istanbul as fears grow over Ankara’s threats against...

A secret garage containing 8,000 cars was found, confiscated by the Assad regime after their owners were arrested over the years of the Syrian revolution. The cars that Zaman al-Wasl's camera monitored bore Syrian, Saudi, Lebanese, Iraqi and European license plates. The place also included...

Turkish authorities on Thursday stopped the entry of dual nationals through the Hamam crossing in the "Olive Branch" area in the northern countryside of Aleppo, into Syrian territory until further notice. The Turkish authorities have not yet issued any official clarification regarding the...

The Syrian Minister of Defense in the caretaker government, Major General Morhaf Abu Qasra, met on Thursday with the leaders of the US-backed Free Syria Army, which is stationed in the Tanf military garrison. Engineer Abu Qasra met with the army commander "Salem Al-Antari", his chief of...

Lebanon’s parliament elected army chief Joseph Aoun head of state on Thursday. The presidency, reserved for a Maronite Christian in Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system, has been vacant since Michel Aoun’s term ended in October 2022, with deeply divided factions unable to agree on a...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Syria announced that more than 125,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their country after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's regime. This came in a post by the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in...

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, on Thursday, the resumption of issuing passports to expatriate citizens, next Sunday, through diplomatic missions and consular offices. The ministry said in a post on its official account on the X platform, "We announce to the expatriates the...

Battles between Turkish-backed groups, supported by airstrikes, and Kurdish-led forces killed 37 people on Thursday in Syria’s northern Manbij region, a war monitor said. The latest reported fighting comes despite the United States saying Wednesday that it was working to address Turkey’s...