Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the implementation of a daily ceasefire in Eastern Ghouta, starting Tuesday, and the creation of a "humanitarian corridor" via which civilians can leave, his defense minister was quoted as saying. The minister, Sergei Shoigu, said the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Syria's Eastern Ghouta with the country's national security council, TASS news agency said Monday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Peskov said that Russia's security council expressed concern about the "provocative...

Syrian forces launched a ground offensive Monday on a rebel-held eastern Damascus suburb despite a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria, as the U.N. chief denounced the violence in the embattled region, describing it as "hell on Earth." The...

Allegations that forces loyal to Syrian leader Bashar Assad were to blame for a chlorine attack in Syria's Eastern Ghouta are a provocation aimed at sabotaging a ceasefire in the enclave, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying Monday. Lavrov said a 30-day ceasefire...

Israel detained ten extended family members of Palestinian teenager labeled hero Ahed Tamimi during wide-scale raid and inspection operations in the occupied Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh. The village of Nabi Saleh, located northwest of the occupied city of Ramallah has been the...

The U.N. rights chief Monday slammed a lack of action to rein in increasingly brutal conflicts around the world, describing places like Syria, Yemen and Myanmar as "prolific slaughterhouses". "Eastern Ghouta, the other besieged areas in Syria, Ituri and the Kasais in the [Democratic...

South Sudan is likely to return to famine within months, with 155,000 people likely to be in a catastrophic situation between May and July, a survey by a technical working group including South Sudanese and U.N. officials said Monday. The survey said 5.3 million people, 48 percent of...

Netflix is set to produce its very first drama series in the region, with the Lebanese Very Big Shot director Mir Jen Bou Chaaya taking the director’s chair, and Jordanian scribe Bassel Ghandour, who scripted the Oscar-nominated Theeb, on writing duties. The series is called Jinn, and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fresh bombardment by the regime army Monday killed at least 10 civilians in the besieged Eastern Ghouta subrubs, including nine members of a same family, a monitor said. Air strikes destroyed a building in Douma, the main town in the Eastern Ghouta area east of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad's first aide is on a 'security visit' to Italy following a two-year of collaboration between Rome and Damascus in the Intelligence and jihadists issues, a Lebanese daily said on Monday. The Hezbollah-funded Al-Akhbar newspaper said the Lebanese...

AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan’s Prime Minister Hani Mulki reshuffled his cabinet on Sunday and appointed the king’s chief of staff as his special deputy for economic affairs in an apparent bid to soothe widespread anger over rising hardship and flagging growth. Mulki’s reshuffle, his sixth...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- "Destroy the children of Ghouta; they are the children of terrorists, kill the women; they are the wives and mothers of the terrorists." This was a call by a pro-regime loyalist, Lama Dayoub, on her Facebook page to the regime army, Iranian militias and the Russian friends, and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 people, including 36 Daesh militants and 16 displaced, were killed in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor as the US-led coalition stepped up aerial bombing on last ISIS stronghold near the Iraqi border, local media unit said on Sunday. Daesh is still...

At least two people were killed and dozens more injured on Sunday when security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo cracked down on church-led demonstrations against President Joseph Kabila, the United Nations said. Catholic and evangelical churchgoers across Congo had meant to take...

The Assad regime on Sunday attacked the besieged Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta with chlorine gas, according to the White Helmets, a pro-opposition Syrian civil defense agency. One child was killed in the attack which targeted the Al-Shifoniya town, the agency said on its official...

 British police declared a major incident on Sunday after a large blast destroyed a convenience store and a home in the central English city of Leicester. Ambulance services reported that four people were admitted to hospital in critical condition. "We have taken four patients to...

The downing of an Israeli F-16 fighter jet earlier this month by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile resulted from a "professional error" by the crew, the Israeli military said Sunday. Its investigation found that an anti-aircraft missile shot down the Israeli warplane while it was returning...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has unveiled her picks for Cabinet ministers, ahead of a special party congress of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on Monday, which would vote on forming a "grand coalition" government with Social Democrats. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on...

The Kurdish Hawks Brigade, part of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), will join Turkey's Operation Olive Branch launched against YPG/PKK and Daesh terror organizations in Afrin, northwestern Syria, a brigade commander said Sunday. The brigade, which was formed by the Hamza Division, includes...

Some 50 nationalists on Sunday disrupted a news conference in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, which was organized by a group of Buddhist monks who have been pressing the government to take action against an anti-Muslim monk. The nationalists including 20 monks barged into an apartment...