(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front, key Free Syrian Army unit, has launched major attack on an ISIS affiliate based near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights, local activists said on Thursday.  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front, key Free Syrian Army unit, has launched major attack on an...

Turkish and Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces cleared one more village of PYD/PKK terrorists on Thursday during their counterterrorism operation in Afrin, Syria, Turkish security sources told Anadolu Agency. Liberating the village of Ali Kar, located in the northern Bulbul district,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people, including 2 children, were killed and dozen more wounded in renewed airstrikes on Douma, the key of town of the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, Civil Defense agency said Thursday. 3 civilians killed and many injured, including suffocation cases...

Facebook Wednesday reported a big jump in profits even though people are spending less time on the world's biggest social network. The company said its priority is to encourage personal interaction among users, rather than simply boost the number of hours they spend on Facebook....

Royal Dutch Shell said Thursday that profit after taxation almost tripled to just under $13 billion in 2017, energized by rising oil and gas prices. Net or bottom-line earnings for the full year compared with a figure of $4.6 billion in 2016, the Anglo-Dutch energy giant revealed...

Russia's main intelligence agency says it has killed a suspected member of Daesh (ISIS) who it says was plotting an attack on the country's presidential election day next month. The FSB said in a statement Thursday that the man resisted and was killed by security forces in the...

Saudi and Emirati envoys shuttled between Yemeni government forces and besieging southern separatists in second city Aden Thursday in a bid to end a tense standoff after days of deadly infighting. The Sunday assault on the embattled government's headquarters by its former allies...

A fire engulfed a group home for welfare recipients in northern Japan, killing 11 people and injuring three, police and fire officials said Thursday. Fire department officials said the residents were in their 40s to 80s, though most were elderly. The fire broke out before...

The Trump administration is expected to let nearly 7,000 Syrians remain in the United States for another 18 months but won't let more Syrian citizens apply for the special protection program, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Under a humanitarian program known as "Temporary Protected...

 For 3,000 years, the lion sculptures of Syria’s Ain Dara stood as testaments to the Iron Age. But as Turkish bombardment pounds the region, they have little left but their paws. Syrian and Kurdish authorities have blamed the damage squarely on Ankara’s nearly two-week offensive on...

An urgent plea for hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Palestinian refugees from Syria could provide a "lifeline" after "catastrophic" U.S. funding cuts, U.N. officials in Beirut said Wednesday. On Tuesday, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, launched its...

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Tunisia Wednesday on a visit intended to "support the democratic transition" of a country still battered by economic stagnation and social unrest seven years after its revolution. His visit comes after several hundred people were...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday said Israel will retain security control over the Palestinians as part of any future peace deal, deepening Palestinian fears that Israel and the Trump administration are colluding on a proposal that will fall far short of their dreams of...

An Egyptian court has sentenced 19 Muslim defendants to a one-year suspended sentence for attacking an unlicensed church south of Cairo. Wednesday's sentence was handed down in Atfih misdemeanor court. The defendants will not have to serve prison time unless they get into trouble...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hafez al-Assad has spread a propaganda which has dominated the Syrian arena for decades of the oppression of the Alawites and their excessive marginalization, before Hafez came to power and leadership, and built for them a "glory and a great...

 Israel has summoned Ireland's ambassador over a bill seeking to ban the import of West Bank settlement products. The bill must pass several hurdles to become law. If it does, Ireland would become the first European country to ban settlement goods. Israel's Foreign...

 Clashes raged between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia in Syria's Afrin region Wednesday, as wounded civilians fled intense Turkish air strikes. Turkey and allied Syrian rebels have pressed on with Operation Olive Branch in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin enclave...

German police arrested three people Wednesday in a nationwide operation to crack down on a gang accused of trafficking migrants into Germany in trucks last year. The police said they arrested a Turk, aged 44, a 37-year old Pole and a Bulgarian, 53, in raids on seven properties in...

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to step up efforts to form observation posts in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, a source in Erdogan's palace said Wednesday. The two leaders also stressed in a telephone call the...

Turkish and Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces on Wednesday liberated a Syrian village from PYD/PKK terrorists as part of the ongoing Operation Olive Branch. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene, the village of Bak Ubasi in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region has...