Nearly eight years into the Syrian war, Selim still refuses to perform his military service, just like many fellow Druze from Swaida province rejecting the regime’s conscription call. “I don’t want to get involved in the Syrian bloodbath,” said the 27-year-old, who gave a pseudonym for fear of...

The United States has moved to disrupt an Iranian-Russian network that it said had sent millions of barrels of oil to Syria as well as hundreds of millions of dollars to indirectly fund Hamas and Hezbollah. The complicated arrangement, described by the U.S. Treasury in a statement Tuesday,...

A Helsinki court Wednesday found a Finnish-Syrian man who won global media fame for distributing toys to orphans in Syria guilty of money laundering and fraud. Rami Adham, dubbed the "Toy Smuggler" for his campaign to collect money for orphans in the war-ravaged town of Aleppo, was...

The U.S. is placing observation posts along the Turkish border in northern Syria, Defense Chief James Mattis said Wednesday. Turkey has "legitimate" concerns about terror threats in Syria and the U.S. does not dismiss any of its concerns, he told reporters at the Pentagon. The...

Lebanese security services arrested Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Arsal's refugee camps following his latest report over 20 Syrian refugee women who were aborted due to polluted water, editor-in-chief Fathi Bayoud said Wednesday. Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani was arrested early morning by the...

Iran Wednesday praised European efforts to maintain business with Tehran despite U.S. sanctions, citing "constructive meetings" with British and French officials in Tehran this week on setting up a way to conduct non-dollar trade. Iranian Foreign Ministry officials voiced more hope for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Syrian forces have imposed a curfew on civilians from Wednesday morning in the border city of Jarablus amid security campaign tracking ‘corrupt’ rebels, the National Army said in statement. A major military campaign was launched by the Turkish forces and...

The U.S. military said it has carried out an airstrike in central Somalia targeting al-Shabab that killed seven extremists. The U.S. Africa Command statement said Tuesday's airstrike occurred in Quy Cad in the Mudug region. The strike was carried out a day after two other U.S....

U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday thanked Saudi Arabia for lower oil prices, a day after pledging the U.S. would remain a "steadfast partner" of the kingdom despite the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. "Oil prices getting lower. Great! Like a big Tax Cut for America and the World. Enjoy!...

Iraqi forces have killed 15 Daesh (ISIS) militants inside a tunnel during a search operation in the northern Sunni-majority Salahuddin province, the military said Wednesday. Daesh, which once occupied a third of Iraq's territory, has been largely defeated in the country but has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In this video, Zaman Al Wasl TV takes you in a 'tour' inside the abandoned refugee camp of al-Dana in northern Idlib province. 210 displaced families live in al-Dana Camp without basic needs or proper makeshift homes.  They deliver their plea via Zaman...

An international rights group says Libyan authorities have forcibly removed dozens of migrants who had barricaded themselves in a container ship in the port city of Misrata for the past 10 days after being picked up at sea. The migrants had refused to disembark, saying Libya is too...

    The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia allegedly dispatched troops to Syria’s northeast, which is occupied by the PKK/YPG terror group. The soldiers are purportedly stationed with the U.S.-led coalition. Although there is no estimate of how many troops were posted...

-  Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has issued a mocking response to President Donald Trump's announcement that he would stick by Saudi Arabia despite the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "Mr. Trump bizarrely devotes the FIRST paragraph of his shameful statement on...

The United States has imposed sanctions on six people and three entities for their involvement in oil shipments to Syria, the U.S. Treasury Department said Tuesday. The individuals listed in a statement by the U.S. Treasury included two Iranian nationals, a Russian, a Syrian, an Iraqi...

House Democrats are planning to investigate Ivanka Trump’s reported use of a private email address for official business. The Oversight and Government Reform Committee will focus a current investigation into White House staffers’ compliance with the Presidential Records Act on the first...

Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), has been placed under formal investigation over claims of taking illegal donations. The public prosecutor's office in the southern Germany city of Konstanz announced on Tuesday that it has opened an...

An appeal by U.S. senators to vote against a nominee for the head of Interpol is interference, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.   "This is a kind of interference in the electoral process, in the elections in an international organization. How else would you evaluate...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United States intends to remain a "steadfast partner" of Saudi Arabia even though "it could very well be" that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had knowledge of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Trump, in a statement issued...

Dozens of inmates in a prison in central Syria are on an eighth day of a hunger strike to protest against a raft of death sentences, two of them and rights groups said Monday. Hama central prison holds hundreds of inmates, most of them men who were detained in connection with the...