(Zaman Al Wasl)- After the opposition forces brought down a Sukhoi 25 fighter jet in northern Idlib province last Saturday, Moscow quickly accused Washington of supplying Stinger missiles, a portable anti-aircraft, to the Syrian opposition. The U.S. State Department denied the...

Russia's Olympic Athletes Commission Tuesday expressed "huge disappointment" over the International Olympic Committee decision not to invite to Pyeongchang 15 Russian athletes and staff whose life bans for doping were lifted. The IOC ruled Monday that 13 Russian athletes and two...

Asian stocks plunged Tuesday after a record-breaking loss on Wall Street, extending a global rout as panicked investors fret over rising U.S. borrowing costs and take profits after months of market euphoria. Tokyo led a collapse throughout the region, briefly diving almost seven...

A Turkish soldier was killed in a rocket and mortar attack by militants in northwest Syria as Turkish forces were setting up a military post in the largest remaining stronghold of opposition to President Bashar Assad, Turkey's military said Tuesday. It was the second attack in a...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led airstrikes on a village held by Daesh (ISIS) in the eastern part of Deir Ezzor province killed at least 17 people on Monday, the group’s news agency said. Amaq said the the deadly strikes on Sha’fah east of Euphrates left 17 people killed and...

One civilian lost his life on Monday to a PYD attack in northern Azaz district, east of Afrin region, where an operation by Turkey is underway, according to security sources. The rocket attack launched from Afrin also injured five other civilians, said the source who refused to be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian armed opposition on Monday has recaptured three villages from regime forces and allied militias in northern Idlib province as Russia air force steps up deadly aerial campaign in retaliation to killing military pilot, local activists said. 'Dahr al-Ghuzat',...

Nearly 47,000 people have been displaced to Yemen’s coastal city of Aden because of rising unrest in two cities since late last year, the UN said Monday. "Escalating conflict in Taizz and Hudaydah since December 2017 has displaced nearly 47,000 people to Aden and other governorates in...

The United States accused Russia Monday of delaying the adoption of a U.N. Security Council condemnation of reported chlorine gas attacks in Syria that left many injured in recent days, including children. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told the council that there was "obvious...

Turkish forces and the Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Monday captured another village from PYD/PKK terrorists in Syria's Afrin. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent based in the region, Dikmetas village in the town of Sharan and Mount Sirghaya were both cleared of terrorists....

At least 14 Palestinians have been martyred since U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last December, Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah said Monday. According to Hamdallah, the 14 were killed by live ammunition or died in Israeli custody due...

The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier told Britain Monday that the time had come for Britain to make a choice on what sort of relationship it wanted with the bloc after Brexit. Britain has ruled out staying in any customs union with the EU after Brexit, but...

 Syrian regime attacks on Tuesday left 30 civilians dead -- and dozens more injured -- in Eastern Ghouta, a Damascus suburb, according to Syrian civil-defense sources. The civilian death toll has steadily risen as Assad regime forces continue to strike residential areas in...

Turkey has so far detained 573 people for social media posts and protests criticizing its military offensive in Syria, the government said Monday. The crackdown, which has extended to the national medical association, has deepened concerns about free speech under President Recep...

Russia has deployed advanced nuclear-capable Iskander missiles to its Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea, the RIA news agency quoted a senior lawmaker as saying Monday. Russia has said previous deployments of Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, a slice of Russia wedged between...

At least 83 children were killed in Middle East war zones in January, most of them in Syria, the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said Monday, vowing their voices "will never be silenced." "They were killed in ongoing conflicts, suicide attacks or frozen to death as they fled active war zones,"...

Russia has ordered its warplanes in Syria to fly higher to avoid being shot down by shoulder launched anti-aircraft missiles after one of its jets was shot out of the sky on Saturday, the Izvestia daily reported Monday. The reported policy change came after Syrian rebels shot...

MOSCOW- The Kremlin said Monday that shoulder-launched missiles obtained and used by rebels in Syria were a huge danger to all governments after a Russian warplane was shot down there at the weekend. Russia's Defense Ministry has said that the aircraft, a SU-25, was downed in Syria's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- In the first part of this report, it was noted that the biography of Hawash family, especially the dismissed Colonel Muhammad Aziz Hawash, provides evidence that the coup d'état performed by the three leaders (Omran, Jadid, al-Assad) and then the coup d'état of Hafez al-Assad...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian people’s calamities have continued without giving citizens a chance to catch their breaths. Syrians have been destined to swing between the trials of death, displacement and destruction as they watch a lifetime of effort disappear before their eyes. For...