Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh on Tuesday said U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was aimed at “terminating” the Palestinian national cause. “The recent U.S. decision on Jerusalem is part of ongoing efforts to terminate the Palestinian...

Jaish al-Izza Announces Homs al-Adiya Brigade to Merge with Jaish al-Izza  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for Jaish al-Izza tens of rebel fighters from central Homs province has joined the key FSA group in the northern countryside of Hama. Captain Mustafa Maarati  told...

Israeli forces have detained eight Palestinians, five of whom were rounded up in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank late Monday, according to the Israeli military. In a Tuesday statement, the Israeli army said the individuals had been detained for questioning over...

Russia has begun establishing a permanent military presence at air and naval bases in Syria, the defense minister said Tuesday. The announcement by Sergey Shoigu follows President Vladimir Putin’s order for Russian forces to begin withdrawing from Syria but to maintain a foothold at...

Bashar al-Assad's regime has dropped at least 68,334 barrel bombs on civilians from July 2012 to Nov. 2017, a human rights group said on Monday. London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a report that the Assad regime had targeted multiple civilian settlements located...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 40 rebel factions operating acrossout Syria denounced the Russian stance to keep Bashar al-Assad in power through the Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Sochi which will take place at the end of January. In a statement posted online,  a spectrum of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Itihad Quwat Jabal al Sheikh, key FSA unit operating in Quneitra province, denied regime reports of evacuation deal deporting hundreds of its fighters to northern Idlib province, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. Mohamed al-Zamel, commander in Alwyat...

Najib Alhaj Ali is 14 years old. Two years ago he was left with a spinal cord injury, unable to feel anything below his naval, after a bomb attack on his home in in Homs, Syria. His father took him to a make-shift clinic after the attack but did not manage to get treatment. His...

Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a Sweden-based Iranian academic convicted of spying for Israel, the Tehran prosecutor was quoted as saying on Monday, confirming reports by Amnesty International and his family. Ahmadreza Djalali, a medical doctor and lecturer at...

Karim’s other eye is in danger, and several surgeries are needed so he doesn’t lose his sight completely. He needs direct medical evacuation, as well as 600+ other cases requiring medical evacuation for treatment outside besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, according to social media...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 civilians, including 2 women and a child, were killed in barrel bombs attack on northern Idlib province, local activists said on Monday. Syrian regime warplanes conducted more than 20 airstrikes on the eastern countryside of Idlib, killing and wounding...

The Palestinian foreign ministry on Monday slammed as "shameful" Guatemala's decision to transfer its embassy to Jerusalem after the United States recognised the city as the capital of Israel. "It's a shameful and illegal act that goes totally against the wishes of church leaders in...

Syrian regime army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias pushed deeper into the last rebel-held enclave near a strategic border area with Israel and Lebanon in a new expansion of Tehran's influence in the war-torn country. The army and the Shia forces advanced east and south of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes conducted at least 20 airstrikes on the eastern countryside of Idlib province, killing and wounding dozen, local activists said on Monday. Workers of Civil Defense said one child had been killed  in regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “A town of angels invaded by ghosts,” is how an activist from the Ain al-Fijah town, 25 km (17 miles) northwest of Damascus,  described the situation of the town more than a year after the displacement of its people and the expropriation of their land and property through...

A car rammed into the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) headquarters in the early hours of Monday, police in Berlin said. A police statement said a 58-year-old man was the main suspect in the incident, which occurred at 3:20 am local time (0220GMT) on Monday. The man, who was...

A bus plowed into a Moscow subway entrance, leaving at least five people dead and 15 injured, security officials told Anadolu Agency. Russian officials declared the incident that occurred at the entrance of the Slavyansky Bulvar subway station in western Moscow to be not terror-related,...

A police officer and a criminal suspect were killed in a gunfight -- while the body of a missing judge was found -- near the city of Qatif in Saudi Arabia’s restive Eastern Province, the Saudi Interior Ministry said Monday. The official Saudi Press Agency quoted ministry spokesman...

Israeli forces have detained 30 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank late Sunday, according to the Israeli military. In a Monday statement, the army said the individuals had been detained for questioning over alleged involvement in what it described...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The prominent opposition dissident Michel Kilo confirmed that the planned Syrian National Dialogue Congress in Russia’s Sochi at the end of January will not result in anything since its a Russian pretext to keep Bashar al-Assad in power. In an interview with...