(Zaman Al Wasl- SNHR)- The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Tuesday that the Syrian regime has diminished the French initiative, after diminishing the American red line, by carrying out an attack using chemical weapons in Saraqeb city, eastern suburbs of Idlib province.   The...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least four civilians, including two children, killed in fresh missile attack on the embattled town of Douma in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, local activists and Civil Defense said on Tuesday. Thirty more people have been wounded in the aerial attack on the...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday called for making use of constitutional articles allowing the use of popular referendums with a view to deciding contentious national issues. In a statement released by his office, Rouhani said: “We should benefit from constitutional options...

Previously undetected malware directed at users of the desktop version of the messaging app Telegram has been discovered by the Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab, Kaspersky said Tuesday. The malicious software has been used to target Russian users since March 2017, Kaspersky said in a...

Turkish police Monday detained the former co-leader of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party, an official said, just two days after she handed over her job to a successor. Serpil Kemalbay was taken by police in Ankara in front of her home over her criticism of Turkey's three week offensive...

 The U.S. director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, said Tuesday time is running out for the United States to act on the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear programs. "Decision time is becoming ever closer in terms of how we respond to this," Coats said during a hearing...

Syria's government Tuesday rejected efforts led by the United Nations to form a committee to rewrite Syria's constitution, the main result of a peace congress among Syrian groups in Russia last month. "As a state, we are not bound by, nor have any relation with, any committee that is...

At least 46 people, including 19 women and 27 children have been freed from Boko Haram captivity after troops destroyed another hideout of the proscribed armed group in northeastern Borno state, the Defense Ministry said in a statement Tuesday. “[Troops] dislodged Boko Haram terrorists...

Turkey’s president said on Tuesday that last night’s incident between Turkish and Greek boats in the Aegean was concluded without any problem. “From the beginning, we told the Greek side ‘Don’t do such things and also don’t get us in trouble. Let’s stop these skirmishes in both the air...

Palestinians subject to Israel’s policy of “administrative detention”, by which suspects can be held indefinitely without trial or charge, have announced plans to “boycott” Israeli military courts to protest their ongoing incarceration. “We declare a comprehensive and categorical...

Turkish and Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces liberated another northwestern Syrian village from PYD/PKK terrorists on Tuesday, according to Anadolu Agency correspondents on the ground. Operation Olive Branch cleared PYD/PKK terrorists from the village of Omar Simo in Afrin, Syria....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An Iranian official’s words regarding Iran’s role in saving and keeping Bashar Al-Assad in power are not new in the general framework, but they provided an important detail regarding Iranian involvement in the arming and training the regime thugs (Shabihah). Their actions pushed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) has been ousted from northwestern Syria's Idlib province after a final group of the militants surrendered to hardline rebels Tuesday, a spokesman and monitor said. Some 400 people including Daesh fighters, relatives and wounded, gave themselves up to an...

MOSCOW- The Kremlin said Tuesday it had no information about Russian mercenaries reportedly being killed in Syria, saying it only knew about Russian nationals who had been deployed there as members of the Russian armed forces. It was responding to media reports citing associates of...

MOSCOW- Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed North Korea by phone Monday, but the discussion was not in-depth, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. He also said that Trump offered U.S. help to Russia in investigating a fatal plane crash on Sunday...

 WASHINGTON (AFP) - The citizenship hopes of 1.8 million immigrants brought to the United States as children hung in the balance Monday as Congress launched debate on the hot-button issue, with President Donald Trump eager to "make a deal" on new legislation. In offering a path to...

The Israeli military trial of a Palestinian teenager charged after a viral video showed her hitting two soldiers in the occupied West Bank began Tuesday behind closed doors. The judge in the trial ordered journalists removed from the courtroom, ruling that open proceedings would not be...

A British warship will sail from Australia through the disputed South China Sea next month to assert freedom of navigation rights, a senior official said Tuesday in a move likely to irk Beijing. China claims nearly all of the resource-rich waterway and has been turning reefs and islets...

The Trump administration, increasingly concerned that the 74-strong coalition it cobbled together to destroy Daesh (ISIS) is losing sight of the prime objective, is pressing its partners to refocus efforts, overcome rivalries and concentrate on the task at hand: the eradication from Iraq...

Israel Monday accused Turkey of helping the Palestinian movement Hamas to gain in military strength, following its arrest and deportation of a Turkish citizen. The Shin Bet intelligence agency said the movement's "economic and military activity in Turkey takes place unhindered as...