Libyan coast guards rescued 324 migrants, including 35 women and 16 children, on Monday off the coast of northwestern Libya, local authorities said. According to a statement issued by the Libyan coast guard, the migrants were located seven miles from the town of Zuwara. The migrants...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Death toll of regime’s major offensive on Eastern Ghouta suburbs reached a total of 100 as more than 400 people have been wounded in bloody Monday, local activists, rescuing group and monitoring said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tens of former ISIS militants including Egyptians, Tunisians, Russians, Frenchmen, Uzbeks and even Syrians have been, with their families, in the custody of the Free Syrian Army, after uprooting ISIS from northern Aleppo province. Most of them reside in special camps...

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will call for an alternative to U.S.-mediated negotiations with Israel during a rare address to the United Nations Security Council, Palestinian officials said Monday. Addressing the council Tuesday for the first time since 2009, the longtime Palestinian...

The Syrian Kurdish YPG militia denied Monday agreeing a deal with Damascus for the Syrian army to enter the Afrin region to help repel a Turkish offensive. "There is no agreement. There is only a call from us for the Syrian army to come in and protect the borders," YPG spokesman Nouri...

Saudi Arabia has no interest in participating in a European Union-style regional security alliance as proposed by Qatar, its Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Monday. Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani said Friday that Middle Eastern states should put their differences...

BAGHDAD: An Iraqi court has sentenced a German teenager to six years in jail for membership of the Daesh (ISIS) group and illegal entry into the country, a judicial source said Monday. The source told AFP that the girl, aged 17, was Sunday handed a five-year term for belonging to Daesh...

The foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey will meet in Kazakhstan in two weeks to prepare the ground for an Istanbul summit on Syria, the TASS news agency cited Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying Monday. The three countries are working together to try to push the...

Syria's government will face consequences if it reaches an agreement with the Kurdish YPG militia against Turkey's military operation, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as telling Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call Monday. Turkish broadcaster CNN Turk said Erdogan told...

Turkey's foreign minister Monday warned against any intervention by Syrian pro-government forces alongside Kurdish militias in northern Syria, saying it would not prevent Ankara from continuing its month-old offensive. Mevlut Cavusoglu was reacting to a report from Syrian state news...

Britain called on Iran to stop taking actions which could escalate the conflict in Yemen after a United Nations group of experts found that missiles and military equipment of Iranian origin were introduced into Yemen after an arms embargo. "I call on Iran to cease activity which risks...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-Heavy Syrian regime bombardment of rebel-held Eastern Ghouta killed at least 40 civilians Monday, a monitor said, as government forces appeared to prepare for a ground assault. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said air strikes battered the...

Militias allied to the Syrian government will enter the Afrin region within hours, Syrian media reported on Monday, after a Kurdish official said a deal had been struck with the Syrian army to help Kurdish forces end a Turkish offensive there. Turkey said in response that it would...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that reports that hundreds of Russian mercenaries had been killed in Syria recently were an attempt to exploit the war there, the RIA news agency reported. About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were...

Iran's Press TV is reporting that search and rescue teams have reached the site of the plane crash that authorities say killed all 65 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down on Sunday in foggy weather,...

An Iraqi court has sentenced a Turkish woman to death by hanging for joining Daesh (ISIS), a spokesman for the criminal court in Baghdad said in a statement Monday. Ten other women of various nationalities were sentenced to life in prison, he said. All the verdicts can be appealed....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The sell and use of drugs have become a public and widespread phenomenon among youths in northern Syria in general and in the Qamishli province especially. Drug traffickers have increased their activities because there is no effective force on the ground deterring them from...

A Syrian refuge in Turkey said they were exposed to violence by both the Assad regime and PYD/PKK terrorists.   “I witnessed PYD/PKK force children to join their terrorist groups and give them military trainings,” Mevlud Mustafa said. “We wish the terror ends as soon as possible....

The bodies of two Turkish soldiers who went missing in a flood after heavy rains pummeled the country's southeast were found late Sunday, the military said. The Turkish army said the soldiers were on guard in southeastern Sanliurfa province on the border with Syria before they were...

The hunt for a plane that disappeared with 66 people onboard in Iran's Zagros mountains was stopped until morning as blizzard conditions made progress impossible for rescue teams, state television said Sunday. "With the wind intensifying, and with snow, rain and darkness, it is not...