(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists surfaced on social media footage showing huge fire in Mount Qasioun, said it caused due to explosions in the main artillery base used in offensive against the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs. The video carried on by SMART news agency and shared on...

An Egyptian prosecutor has ordered the detention of 75 people following an investigation into suspected human trafficking, state media reported Thursday. A 14-month investigation by the Administrative Control Authority, the country's anti-corruption body, found that the group was made...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian intelligence archive reveals the regime’s extreme obsession with anything related to religion, big or small. The regime ensured it planted agents within all religious institutions to guarantee it could document all details related to any of the religions practiced in...

Syrian regime forces Thursday battled to reach troops trapped in rebel bastion Eastern Ghouta, as a monitor said at least 28 civilians were killed in Russian and government bombardments. State television said "army units had launched an assault to break the siege" of the Armoured...

Russia considers a U.S. proposal for an extraordinary meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the turmoil in Iran "harmful and destructive", RIA news agency cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying Thursday. "We see no role for the United Nations Security Council...

Female French extremists arrested in Kurdish-held parts of Syria should face justice there so long as they can be guaranteed a fair trial, the French government said Thursday. Debate has been swirling in France over the fate of women who went to Syria to marry Islamist fighters and now...

The Nigerian military said Thursday it had rescued one of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in 2014, one of the world's most notorious kidnappings in recent years. The abduction of more than 270 students sparked international condemnation and heavy...

At least 10 Palestinians were injured on Thursday in clashes with Israeli army troops in the southern West Bank, according to witnesses and local medical sources. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said the 10 Palestinians were receiving treatment for their injuries at...

An Afghan official said the Taliban have shot and killed three people in western Farah province. Mohammad Naser Mehri, spokesman for the provincial governor, says the attack unfolded when a group of Taliban fighters stopped a bus travelling in the Bala Buluk district on Thursday....

At least 23 civilians have been killed in aerial bombardment carried out by Syrian government forces in rebel-held parts of the Eastern Ghouta district, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). Both the monitor and the Syrian Civil Defence, a group of volunteer first...

A Turkish court Thursday sentenced a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish opposition party to 16 years and 8 months in prison, broadcaster CNN Turk and other media said, nearly one year after his arrest over terror charges. Idris Baluken, a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic...

Saudi-led air strikes have killed dozens of rebels and civilians in the past 24 hours in Yemen's flashpoint province of Hodeida, medical sources said Thursday. Saudi-led coalition warplanes carried out nine air raids overnight on positions of the Shiite Houthi rebels in the Red Sea...

Iran's army chief said Thursday police forces had already quelled anti-government unrest that has killed 21 people but that his troops were ready to intervene if needed, official media reported, as new state-sponsored protests were held. The anti-government demonstrations, which seem to...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish Khaled Bin Walid, an ISIS branch in southern Syria, has launched a surprise attack on rebel bastions in the western countryside of Daraa city, local activists said on Thursday. Rebels said they have thwarted the attack on the villages of Hait and Sheikh...

At least seven Russian planes were destroyed by rebel shelling at the Hmeymim air base in Syria on Dec. 31, Russian daily Kommersant reported late on Wednesday, citing two sources. In the single biggest loss of military hardware for Russia since it launched air strike in Syria in autumn...

Iranian authorities are concerned that nationwide unrest will undermine the religious establishment and want to stamp out the protests quickly, government officials say.  But the person with the most to lose is President Hassan Rouhani. While several senior officials said there was...

Thousands of Syrian families have been fleeing towards northern parts of the Idlib province amid ongoing attacks by the Russia-backed Assad regime and the Daesh terrorist group. The attacks have reportedly occurred in the area between the northern and eastern countryside of Syria’s Hama...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Representative of the Syrian Turkmen Council in the opposition's National Coalition said his bloc will boycott the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Russia’s Sochi at the end of January, in contrary to previous report published by Zaman al-Wasl. Mohamed al-Shemali...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five Shiite militants, including 3 Hezbollah members, were killed in a Daesh (ISIS) ambush in central Homs province, field sources said on Wednesday. Two more militants from al-Ridha Brigade were also killed in the ambush which took place in near the ancient city of...

A Palestinian youth was martyred on Wednesday after he was shot by Israeli forces in occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. “Musab Firas Tamimi, 17, was killed after he was shot in the neck from short distance during clashes with Israeli troops in Der...