(Zaman Al Wals)- Syrian rebels on Sunday have thwarted major attack by regime army and allied militias in the central province of Homs, local report said. The attack on the eastern countryside of Homs left three civilians dead as rebels said 20 troops were killed and wounded. In...

The leaders of Russia, Iran and the Hezbollah group in Lebanon said Sunday that Western airstrikes on their ally, Syria, have complicated prospects for a political settlement to the country's seven-year conflict. A day after the U.S., Britain and France bombarded sites they said were...

MANCHESTER, England (AP)- Manchester City won the Premier League title without even playing on Sunday when nearest challenger Manchester United surprisingly lost 1-0 at home to last-place West Bromwich Albion. It was City's third title in seven seasons and easily its most convincing,...

WASHINGTON (AP)- President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his use of the phrase "Mission Accomplished" to describe a U.S.-led allied missile attack on Syria's chemical weapons program, saying "it is such a great Military term, it should be brought back." In an early-morning tweet,...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned Sunday that a new humanitarian disaster was looming in Syria, in the rebel-held region of Idlib, seen as the next possible target of the regime's fightback. In an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche weekly a day after the U.S., Britain...

The United States will want to maintain a dialogue with Russia about strategic stability following Western missile strikes on Syria, Russian news agencies cited a Russian Foreign Ministry official as saying Sunday. "There is every reason to believe that after the U.S. strikes on Syria,...

(Eqtsad)- A large number of children in Syria and Lebanon, the border areas between Syria and Lebanon as well as the nearby areas reaching the coast city Tartus in Syria and all of the north Lebanon region, have been exhibiting odd symptoms for weeks. These symptoms were: severe diarrhea,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Dumayr air base east of Damascus has restarted its operations on Sunday after two days of the joint U.S.-British-French airstrikes on regime bastions, local activists said. The Russian military said Saturday that regime's Soviet-made air defense systems had...

ISTANBUL (AP)- An American pastor imprisoned in Turkey is going on trial for alleged terror ties and spying in a case that has increased tensions between Washington and Ankara. Andrew Craig Brunson, an evangelical pastor from North Carolina, is facing 35 years in prison on charges of...

 France is urging Russia to join a push for a political solution in Syria after joint U.S., French and British attacks on Syrian chemical weapons sites. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said in an interview published Sunday in the Journal du Dimanche newspaper that "we...

 Israel's army said Sunday it had destroyed a Hamas tunnel crossing from the Gaza Strip into its territory after more than two weeks of tension along the border of the Palestinian enclave. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said it was the longest and deepest Gazan tunnel...

The leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, said Sunday that the legal basis used to support British air strikes in Syria was debatable, adding that he would only support action backed by the United Nations Security Council. "I say to the foreign secretary, I say to the...

    Bashar Assad told a group of Russian lawmakers Sunday that Western missile strikes on his country were an act of aggression, Russian news agencies reported. Russian lawmakers met with Assad after the United States, France and Britain launched missile strikes on Syria in...

Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin has said the struggle between the U.S. and Russia in Syria "must go beyond proxy wars and geopolitical muscling". Writing for the Istanbul-based Daily Sabah, Kalin said: "It must focus on establishing a legitimate, democratic and inclusive political...

Israeli forces detained a Hamas leader in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh on Sunday, according to local residents.   Israeli soldiers raided and searched the house of Jamal al-Taweel in Umm al-Sharayit neighborhood before taking him into custody, the residents said.  ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday spoke over the phone separately with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to presidential sources. Erdogan discussed the U.S.-led airstrikes against Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria as well as...

The UN Security Council on Saturday rejected Russian resolution condemning joint airstrikes by the U.S., France and the U.K. on Syria. The Security Council convened an emergency meeting at the request of Russia, which condemned US-led airstrikes on Syria overnight. The...

Saudi Arabia Saturday expressed its full support for U.S.-led strikes on Syrian government military installations, saying they were a response to "regime crimes" against civilians. "Saudi Arabia fully supports the strikes launched by the United States, France and Britain against Syria...

U.S.-led strikes in Syria are an "important signal" to Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, a senior Israeli cabinet minister said Saturday. "The use of chemical weapons crosses a red line that humanity can no longer tolerate," Yoav Gallant, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian air defense systems failed to intercept any of the U.S.-British-French missiles, reducing the entire chemical facilities to rubble, a military source told Zaman al-Wasl. The source, who supplied Zaman al-Wasl with satellite images for Institute 6000...