Iraqi forces on Monday captured a senior Daesh terrorist near Mosul in northern Iraq, according to a local police officer. The terrorist, identified as Dawoud Mohamed Saleh, was arrested during a raid on a house in al-Shura island south of Mosul, Capt. Shakir al-Wandi told Anadolu...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 59 regime troops and allied militants from coastal Latakia province killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs since the regime launched its deadliest offensive on Feb18, according to Zaman al-Wasl Arabic. The death toll included 25 officers among them a Major...

Zaman Al Wasl launched a huge search engine including big official data and names of 1,500,000 people wanted for the Syrian regime, including warrants of arrest, interrogation and travel ban. We want to highlight that the huge leak was due our Damascus-based sources...

Four soldiers have been killed in the Sinai Peninsula as part of an ongoing military operation against militants in the restive region, according to the Egyptian military on Monday. A military statement said 36 militants were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in the...

Israeli forces have rounded up 15 Palestinians in overnight raids across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military on Monday. The individuals were arrested for "suspected involvement in popular terrorist activities," the army said in a statement without giving...

On March 19, 2003, U.S.-led forces invaded oil-rich Iraq to topple the Saddam Hussein regime on claims of links to al-Qaeda terrorist group and possession of weapons of mass destruction. Washington based its rationale for the invasion, which was a response to the 9/11 attacks, that it...

At least 397 undocumented migrants, including women and children, were held in south and eastern Turkey, security sources said Sunday. Turkish Coast Guards detained 165 Syrians traveling in a boat in the Mediterranean Sea, said the sources who refused to be named due to restrictions on...

Vladimir Putin headed to an overwhelming win in Russia’s presidential election Sunday, adding six years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world’s largest country for all of the 21st century.  The vote was tainted by widespread reports of ballot-box stuffing and forced...

U.S. President Donald Trump will host Saudi Arabia’s crown prince in Washington Tuesday, giving the president a receptive audience to denounce rival Iran and a chance to take stock of significant changes the prince is engineering in the kingdom. Ten months after the last face-to-face meeting...

Tunisian police used tear gas Sunday to disperse dozens of protesters demanding jobs and development in a mining town in the center of the country, an AFP correspondent said. “Work, freedom, national dignity,” protesters chanted in Mdhilla, demanding that a portion of revenues produced from...

SYDNEY: Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi spoke at length about her country's troubled western state of Rakhine at a Sydney conference Sunday and appealed to Southeast Asian neighbors for help, Australia's prime minister said. "We discussed the situation in Rakhine state at considerable...

NEW YORK (AFP) -  Boosted by surging output, the United States is becoming a significant exporter of crude oil, a shift that is remaking American infrastructure and altering the global petroleum market. Now pumping more than 10 million barrels per day, the US has become the second...

WASHINGTON (AFP) -  The Federal Reserve this week will fire the opening salvo in a series of interest rate hikes this year, hoping to get out in front of an expected pickup in inflation. The first rate hike of the year is overwhelmingly predicted by futures markets, analysts and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime is planning to deport ISIS fighters in southern Damascus suburbs to a territory at the edge of the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Yarmouk Basin, which is under the control of Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, an ISIS affiliated group, is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 26 regime troops and allied militants from coastal Tartus province killed by rebels in the last two weeks of March. The death toll included a Colonel and two Lieutenants as most of slain fighters were killed in the Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital....

 More than 1,500 Kurdish fighters have been killed in a two-month assault by Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels on the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, a monitor said Sunday. Most of them were killed air strikes and artillery fire, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human...

 Turkish forces and their Syrian rebel allies swept into the northwestern Syrian town of Afrin on Sunday, taking control of the town center after Kurdish YPG forces pulled out, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. A spokesman for the rebel fighters said they entered Afrin...

The Kurdish administration of Afrin region indicated Sunday that Kurdish-dominated forces fighting Turkey-backed groups in the area will shift from direct confrontation to guerrilla tactics. "Our forces are present all over Afrin's geography. These forces will strike the positions of...

Bashar Assad on Sunday visited his army positions in Eastern Ghouta, the  dictator's  Telegram account said. "In the line of fire in Eastern Ghouta ... President Assad with heroes of the Syrian Arab army," a caption said next to photographs of Assad in a crowd of men in...

An Israeli was stabbed and wounded in Jerusalem's Old City Sunday and an Israeli television station said the suspected attacker was shot dead. The report on Channel 10 television said Turkish identity papers were found on the body of the alleged assailant. Israel's Magen David...