(Zaman Al Wasl)- The conflict on the ground in southern Syria escalated with its international and regional dimensions as part of the major powers remapping their interests and areas of influence. With the delineation of new boundaries, observers of Syrian affairs highlighted the emergent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime in northeastern Hasaka city reached a new understanding with the Democratic Union Party (PYD) aims at neutralizing the city’s university and its faculties from all conflicts and disputes. Mahmoud al-Ahmad, Hasaka-based activist, said the education...

The year 2017 has been a tough one for the African continent, with terrorism incidents, civil wars and repression of protesters being reported. Apart from the negative developments, there was hope and optimism in some countries especially those where elections were held peacefully....

In January, Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee will start work on what they're calling "the largest childhood intervention in the history of humanitarian response." Funded by a $100 million grant from the MacArthur Foundation, the project aims to reach 9.4 million Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 civilians, including 5 children, have been killed in regime air strikes on the northern province of Idlib, a Syrian civil defense agency said on Sunday. The deadly strikes hit the town of Kafr Sajna in the southern countryside, according to the White...

Iran’s deputy speaker of the parliament on Sunday said the Interior Ministry should accept public demands instead of “raising difficulties” in the wake of anti-government protests across the country. According to the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), Motahari said that the...

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Sunday emphasized on “ensuring permanent peace” in Syria by establishing a new government in the Middle Eastern country. “We have taken initiative with Russia and Iran to end the civil war, which has been going on in Syria for 7 years and to end the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 civilians killed in besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs as regime force and Russia stepped up aerial campaign on the last rebel-stronghold around the capital, local activists said on Sunday. The regime air force conducted more than 40 raids in the past...

Vladimir Putin has a new year’s message for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad: Russia will continue to back Syria. In an end of year greeting issued by the Kremlin, Putin insisted that he would “continue to render every assistance to Syria in the protection of state sovereignty, unity...

Four Indian soldiers and three suspected militants were killed Sunday after rebels stormed a paramilitary camp in disputed Kashmir, officials said. Gunmen in combat dress entered the camp near southern Lethpora village early Sunday firing guns and grenades at the sentry, said...

Thirty-six people were killed and 11 injured early Sunday morning in a head-on collision between a bus and a lorry on a road in central Kenya, police said. "The death toll is now 36," said Rift Valley traffic police chief Zero Arome, explaining the initial toll of 30 had risen, "after...

Iran warned on Sunday that protesters will "pay the price" after a third night of unrest saw mass demonstrations across the country in which two people were killed and dozens arrested. As videos on social media showed thousands marching across the country, an official in the small...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 rebel factions operating under the banner of Syria’s interim government have merged in a unified armed group after four months of preparations, Prime Minister said on Saturday. Jawad Abu Hatab, the head of the opposition's Interim government...

PARIS (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will visit Paris on Jan. 5 to meet his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, with the conflict in Syria high on the agenda, a source in the French president’s office said on Saturday. Among the regional crises the two leaders plan to...

Some of the anti-regime fighters who had evacuated from Western Ghouta under a deal with the Assad regime began arriving in Idlib and Daraa provinces, according to local sources. The first group of evacuees comprising 108 group members, including 21 women and 29 children were brought to...

Anti-government protests broke out in Iran for the third day running on Saturday as separate state-sponsored rallies were staged to mark the end of unrest that shook the country in 2009, according to Iranian news agencies and state media. State television showed a rally in the capital...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 14 regime troops and allied militants were killed and 36 more wounded by rebels in the eastern countryside of Hama province, medics and activists said on Saturday. The regime forces, backed by Russian air force and Iranian-backed militias, have stepped up its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces made new gains against the Islamic State at the eastern bank of Euphrates River, taking eight villages, local activists said on Saturday. The Kurdish-led forces backed by the International coalition airstrikes on Saturday reached the...

Liverpool celebrated Virgil van Dijk's arrival at Anfield by coming from behind to beat Leicester City 2-1 thanks to Mohamed Salah's brace, while Danny Drinkwater scored his first Chelsea goal in a 5-0 rout of Stoke City. Van Dijk, signed from Southampton for a world record fee for a...

A court in Alexandria has sentenced leading rights activist Mahienour el-Massry to two years in prison on charges of illegally protesting against the Egyptian government’s decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, judicial sources said Saturday. The court tried four...