Russian President Vladimir Putin met the Syrian regime’s Bashar al-Assad in the Russian resort city of Sochi on Thursday, highlighting the importance of facilitating the “resumption of a full-fledged political process”, according to the Kremlin. The Russian state-owned news agency TASS...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh ( ISIS)  militants on Thursday have launched a counter attack on regime forces in southern Damascus suburbs following gains made by the regime and allied militias, Amaaq agency said.  Syrian regime forces Tuesday retook the neighborhood of Hajar...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The commander of Jund al-Malahem rebel group was killed Thursday by an improvised explosive device in northern Idlib province, activists said. The IED attack targeted Abu Jasem Kunsafra in the town of Maarret Misreen in the southern countryside of Idlib....

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of Iranian-backed militia have withdrawn from the northern countryside of Aleppo to favor of Turkish army which set up 12th observation point in opposition-held areas on Wednesday. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that 70 vehicles stuffed by Shiite...

court in Iraq Thursday sentenced to death a Russian militant for being a member of Daesh (ISIS), a judicial source said. The person who received the sentence in Baghdad's central criminal court was only identified by the name Hassanov, said the same source. More than 300 people,...

At least one person was killed in Iran's southern city of Kazeroon when protesters set fire to a police station, the semi-official Fars news agency reported Thursday. It said the protest Wednesday night had left at least one person dead and at least six others wounded. "A small...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Civil Defense workers killed when they were clearing landmines in the town of Talbiseh in central Homs province, the rescuing group said Thursday. Demining activities have been started in the newly- evacuated areas in the northern countryside of Homs and...

By Aruuke Uran Kyzy The writer currently works at TRT World Research Centre as an Associate Researcher. Her current areas of focus are Russian foreign policy, modern cultural colonization, Turkish-Iranian-Russian relations and political aspects of Russian colonialism in Central Asia and...

Disabled Palestinian Fadi Abu Salah, 30, was among 62 martyrs killed by Israeli troops during Monday’s peaceful rallies near the Gaza-Israel fence, where Palestinians protested Israel’s occupation and the relocation of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Born in the Gaza Strip in 1988, both...

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday evening announced that it had placed several people linked to Hezbollah on its terrorist list, including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and his deputy, Naim Qasim, according to the Saudi state press.   “Saudi state security agencies have issued joint...

Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev said Thursday an agreement between Skopje and Athens to settle a decades old name dispute could be reached before a European Union summit in June. Zaev met his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit in...

The ex-boss of Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that closed down after being involved in a scandal about the improper use of the data of millions of Facebook users, will appear in front of British lawmakers on June 6. The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said that...

Turkey has criticized the sentencing of a Turkish banker in the United States over his role in helping Iran evade U.S. economic sanctions, in a case that has further strained ties between the two countries. In a statement late Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry called the trial against...

German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze urged carmakers to speed up technical refits of diesel cars to improve air quality after the European Commission said Thursday it was taking Germany to court for breaching air targets. "If we are to survive in court, we need more and faster...

Bosnia says it wants to stop the illegal entry of migrants as the Balkan country struggles with a growing influx of people trying to reach Western Europe. Denis Zvizdic, the head of Bosnia's Council of Ministers, or the country's government, says police patrols will increase along the...

South Korea said Thursday it intends to play the role of mediator after North Korea threatened to pull out of a summit with the United States aimed at the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. North Korea on Wednesday said it might not attend the June 12 summit in Singapore if the...

 Pakistani troops acting on intelligence raided a militant hideout near the southwestern city of Quetta, triggering a shootout in which an intelligence officer and a notorious militant wanted for over 100 deaths of minority Shiites were killed along with two other suspects, officials said...

Egypt's army said Thursday it killed 19 presumed militants in the Sinai peninsula during a large-scale "anti-terror" operation. Egyptian forces launched operation "Sinai 2018" in February in the peninsula where soldiers and security forces have been battling Daesh (ISIS). A military...

The United States on Wednesday imposed additional sanctions on Hezbollah's leadership, targeting five of its top officials, including Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah and deputy leader Sheikh Naim Qassem. In addition to Nasrallah and Qassem, the U.S. also imposed...

In the Turkish city of Gaziantep, home to around half a million Syrians who fled the civil war south of the border, hundreds of Syrian businesses are thriving in a boost both for the displaced community and their host country. Over 3.5 million Syrians are registered in Turkey, far more than in...