(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-backed Syrian forces launched major attack on Daesh (ISIS) in the last pockets in northeastern Hasaka province, the group's news feeds said Sunday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) backed by the US-led airstrikes aim to seize the towns of al-Dshaisha and Tel...

A senior aide to U.S. President Donald Trump described trade frictions with Canada on Sunday as a "family quarrel," and brushed aside concerns expressed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "I think he's overreacting," White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said of Trudeau on...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heads to Europe this week in a bid to rally support from key allies for amending the international nuclear deal with Iran and for pushing Iranian forces out of neighboring Syria. Netanyahu is set to meet with leaders from Germany, France and...

Heavy rain overnight damaged three tents occupied by Syrian refugees in the northeastern town of Arsal, the state-run National News Agency reported Sunday. The Daily Star

Authorities say Cyclone Mekunu killed at least 30 people when it barreled across Oman and Yemen last month. The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in a statement that the majority of the fatalities happened on the Yemeni island of Socotra, where 20...

The bodies of 11 migrants have been recovered and 67 others rescued after their boat began sinking off Tunisia's southern coast, the interior ministry said Sunday. Those rescued from the fishing vessel off the coast of southern Sfax province included "Tunisians and foreigners", it said...

 Bashar Assad said he plans to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, North Korean state media reported Sunday, potentially the first meeting between Kim and another head of state in Pyongyang. "I am going to visit the DPRK and meet HE Kim Jong Un," Assad said May 30, North Korea's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian navy officers trained members the Lebanese Hezbollah militia how to fire the Russian anti-ship Yakhont missiles between 2012 and 2014, after Israeli reports surfaced last year saying that the Iranian proxy is believed to have obtained up to eight Yakhont...

Palestine’s foreign minister on Saturday blasted the U.S. veto of a UN resolution calling for the protection of Palestinians as a “moral blunder”. The U.S. veto “is another moral blunder … and political blindness,” the official Wafa news agency quoted Riyad al-Malki as saying. ...

A less publicized conflict is raging on in Yemen’s port city of Aden between the internationally recognized government and southern separatists.  Rival billboards and posters appear across the city’s main streets showing support to the Saudi-backed government of President Abd Rabbu...

YPG militia and the Syrian regime have reached an agreement on sharing oil from the Al-Omar oilfield -- one of the largest oilfields in YPG/PKK-occupied Deir ez-Zor province in eastern Syria, according to local sources.  Under the deal, the YPG/PKK will give 100 barrels of oil from...

At least 12 civilians - members of the same family - have been killed in U.S.-led coalition raids on Daesh (ISIS) in northeastern Syria, a monitor said Saturday. "The air strikes and artillery fire [Friday night] by the international coalition on the village of Hidaj, held by IS in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 37 regime troops from the coastal province of Tartus were killed in May, most of them killed by Daesh in the southern suburbs of Damascus, pro-regime news feeds said.   The death toll included 7 officers.  More than 119,000 pro-regime forces...

An Iranian military jet crashed on Saturday in the central Isfahan province, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, but the two pilots ejected before it came down in a desert area. "The fighter ran into technical problems after departing the Shahid Babaei Air Base in Isfahan on a...

Syria has amended a controversial property law to allow people a year instead of a month to prove ownership of land seized for development, the foreign minister said Saturday. The law, known as Decree 10, allows Syria's government to seize private property for zoned developments and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have withdrawn from the town of Tel Rifaat north of Aleppo city, heading the Nubul and al-Zaharra towns late on Friday, local activists said Saturday. The surprise move followed an understanding between Iran, Turkey and Russia as the...

Air strikes by Turkish warplanes "neutralized" at least 15 militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq as well as in Turkey's eastern provinces of Tunceli and Siirt, the military said on Saturday. The strikes were carried out on Friday and Saturday, it said...

Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki refused to scrap an IMF-backed tax reform bill on Saturday that has sparked protests over price hikes, saying it was up to parliament to decide its fate. Several thousand protesters staged vigils outside the cabinet office for two consecutive nights...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime artillery pounded the opposition-held areas in coastal Latakia province on Saturday, following rebels' attacks on regime checkpoint and killing at least six troops, activists said. The ground shelling hit the villages of al-Najiyyah and Bdama, using...

A delegation from Syria's tolerated domestic opposition made a rare visit to the Kurdish region Saturday after the president threatened to use force to retake areas held by the Kurds. The Kurds, whose militia spearhead an anti-militant force backed by a U.S.-led coalition, have long...