(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian airstrikes on northwestern Idlib province have killed three civilians, including children, Civil Defense rescuing group said Wednesday. The Russian warplanes carried raids on the town of Maarrat Harma, killing and wounding 13 people, the White Helmets reported...

DAMASCUS: The Syrian government Wednesday denied it possessed chemical weapons and branded the use of such arms "immoral and unacceptable", following a French warning of punitive strikes. "Syria's government categorically denies possessing... chemical weapons. We consider the use of such...

The rebel-held Syrian region of the Eastern Ghouta has received its first aid delivery in almost three months. It comes after weeks of appeals from the United Nations to allow aid deliveries and the evacuation of hundreds of critically ill people. About 400,000 people live in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Israel’s airstrikes on army's T4 military airport in Syria desert last Saturday had killed seven Iranians, including pilots and experts, well-informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The Israeli strikes in retaliation to its downed F-16 were very accurate and effective. The...

PARIS (Reuters) - France’s foreign minister on Wednesday sought to clarify his government’s position on the use of chemical weapons in Syria saying that Paris would only strike if the attacks were lethal and carried out by government forces. President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday...

PARIS (Reuters) - Iran’s ballistic missile program must be placed under international surveillance, French President Emmanuel Macron said, in an bid to get tougher on Tehran while preserving the nuclear deal that Donald Trump has threatened to scrap. With the 2015 deal, aimed at...

 A man who rented his flat to Daesh (ISIS) jihadists was found not guilty Wednesday in the first trial stemming from the 2015 Paris attacks that left 130 people dead. Prosecutors had been seeking a four-year jail term for Jawad Bendaoud, though more serious terrorism charges had...

urkish military and Free Syrian Army cleared another village of PYD/PKK terrorists in northwestern Syria near the Turkish border on Wednesday. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent in the region, a joint operation was launched in the village of Qude in the northwest of Afrin....

Ankara will provide a credit facility of $5 billion to Iraq at a meeting on the country's reconstruction on Wednesday, according to foreign minister. "As a neighbor, friend, and reliable partner, we will always stand by our Iraqi brothers," Mevlut Cavusoglu said on his Twitter account....

Two Myanmar journalists facing up to 14 years in prison if convicted of receiving government secrets appeared for their latest court hearing in Yangon Wednesday, one day after it was announced that they had won a major press freedom award. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested Dec. 12...

A senior Iranian official said Wednesday that Iran's military presence in Syria was legitimate and based on the invitation of Damascus, and called on U.S. forces to leave the country. Reacting to U.S. Secretary of State Tillerson, who said Wednesday that Iran needed to withdraw military...

Rome, Italy - Six and a half years into the ongoing bloodshed in Syria, General Issam Zahreddine, infamous for overseeing the suffocating three-year siege of Deir Az Zor, was killed by a landmine. He died in October 2017, when his vehicle hit an explosive in Hawija Saqr during the...

Israel warned Syrian President Bashar Assad to stop letting his war-torn country be used by Iran as a launching pad for attacks, and tensions in the region remained high Tuesday following a weekend skirmish and a new Syrian threat of "more surprises." The warning from Syria's Assistant...

Kuwait's ruling emir said on Wednesday that his oil-rich nation will give $1 billion in loans and $1 billion in direct investments to help rebuild Iraq, a stunning donation as only a generation ago Saddam Hussein invaded the small, oil-rich nation. Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah's offer...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS militants on Wednesday have launched attack on former al-Qaeda group in Yarmouk Refugee Camp south of the capital, local reporter said. Heavy clashes are still underway in the camp that divided between ISIS and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly known as Nusra Front....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The local council in Arbeen town in besieged Eastern enclave of  Damascus has formed an emergency committee to provide technical and health services to displaced who are now permanently living in basements as the city has witnessed several months of systematic...

More than 50 Palestinians died waiting for Israeli visas to travel for medical treatment last year, with only around half of all applications granted, new figures showed Tuesday. A total of 54 Palestinians died awaiting permits in 2017, the World Health Organization said, in what activists...

In a small medieval Slovak town, couples are getting ready on Valentine’s Day to make a “deposit” about their romance in a place dedicated to love stories. The “Love Bank” is the main attraction of an exhibition commemorating the world’s longest love poem, “Marina” by Slovak poet Andrej...

Qatar Airways’ chief executive said Tuesday the carrier will post a loss this year because four other Arab countries have severed land, air and sea links with Qatar. Akbar al-Baker said that the boycott on Qatar’s flagship airline flying to neighboring Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,...

President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that "France will strike" if chemical weapons are used against civilians in the Syrian conflict but that he had not yet seen any evidence that this was the case. "On chemical weapons, I set a red line and I reaffirm that red line," Macron told...