(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians, including woman and her baby child, were killed in Russian airstrikes on the northern town of Maarrat al-Nu'man in Idlib province, Civil Defense rescuing group said on Thursday.  3 martyrs so far mostly children, killed by warplane airstrikes...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) on Thursday intercepted Daesh suicide bombers attempting to enter a Syrian district on Turkey’s border. FSA fighters stopped a truck carrying water tanks during traffic control operations in Azez district, Aleppo province, according to authorities. Ten...

 The U.S. State Department urged Turkey Thursday not to take military action against Afrin region in Syria and called instead for Ankara to remain focused on fighting Daesh (ISIS) militants in the region. Asked about signs that Turkey was preparing to strike a Kurdish militia in Afrin,...

Israel confirmed Thursday it had reached a deal with Jordan over a shooting incident last July at the Israeli embassy in Amman that left two Jordanians dead. “Israel and Jordan have reached an agreement over the shooting incident which occurred at the Israeli embassy in Amman in which...

Spanish authorities have detained two men allegedly responsible for a boat carrying migrants to the Canary Islands, seven of whom drowned or died from "hypothermia, exhaustion and hunger", a court said Thursday. The inflatable boat was found Monday off a beach at the popular resort of...

Woody Allen Thursday issued another denial of child molestation, accusing his ex-lover's family of "cynically" jumping on the Time's Up movement in Hollywood to repeat a "discredited allegation." The legendary American film director issued the statement after his estranged, adopted...

The United Nations says violence against aid workers in South Sudan reached a new high in 2017, with 28 killed. Nearly half of the 1,159 humanitarian access incidents reported last year by aid agencies involved violence including killing, looting and threats. The U.N....

Human Rights Watch says the world must do more to help end rights abuses in chaotic Libya, which has emerged as one of the main corridors for migration to Europe. The U.S.-based group says in its annual report Thursday that most of the over 200,000 migrants and asylum seekers who...

Turkey dispatched its military chief to Moscow Thursday, seeking approval for an air campaign in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin region, although Damascus warned it could shoot down any Turkish planes in its skies. Turkey's foreign minister said the Moscow trip by Chief of Staff Hulusi...

By Naser Ali (Zaman Al Wasl)- Under the title "Unarmed Combatants, Houses with Concerns and Expectations", an investigation tells the stories of the lives of a group of women of officers and militia mercenaries who have been neglected and blackmailed by state officials and institutions...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the local council in Harasta district in besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs has accused regime troops of looting the Christian cemeteries. Hossam al-Bayrouti told Zaman al-Wasl that cemeteries in the al-Ajami and the al-Intaj areas had been looted and damged....

Emergency officials in Kazakhstan say that 52 people have been killed in a bus fire. The Emergencies Department of the former Soviet nation in Central Asia said Thursday's tragedy happened in the northern Aktobe region. Authorities said that only five of 57 people on the bus managed to...

The Syrian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that a U.S military presence in Syria was illegitimate and represented an "aggression" against Syrian sovereignty, after Washington signaled that its forces would stay in parts of Syria indefinitely. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on...

Turkey said Thursday Washington's denial that it intended to build a border force in Syria was "important," but added Ankara would not remain silent in the face of any force that threatened its borders. Turkey reacted angrily after the U.S.-led coalition said it would help its Syrian...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Wednesday denied that the United States had any intention to build a Syria-Turkey border force, saying the issue, which has incensed Ankara, had been “misportrayed.” Turkey has reacted angrily and warned of an imminent incursion into Syria’s...

The Koreas have agreed to march together at next month's Winter Olympics under a unified flag as well as taking the unprecedented step to field a joint women's ice hockey team during the event. Seoul and Pyongyang delegations announced late Wednesday they will strengthen cooperation at...

Waiving its newly announced name, "Border Protection Force", the Pentagon late Wednesday claimed that PKK/PYD-led SDF force is not a new "army" or conventional "border guard" force. "The U.S. continues to train local security forces in Syria. The training is designed to enhance security...

Turkey's top security body, the National Security Council (MGK), said Wednesday it will take "any steps necessary immediately" to "defeat threats" upon the United States' announcement that it is building an army of PKK-backed YPG terrorists on the Syrian border. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 fighters from the US-backed forces have been killed and wounded in two ISIS suicide bombing attacks in eastern Deir Ezzor province, the extremist group news agency said on Wednesday. Amaq said two the car-bomb attacks targetes bases of the Syrian Democratic...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes continued between ISIS fighters and rebels in the southern suburbs of Damascus for the fifth day as the radical group seeks to seize more blocs in the besieged district of al-Hajar al-Aswad, local activists said Wednesday. Daesh (ISIS) launched an attack...