(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime may resort to military force in the eastern Qalamoun region near Damascus as a last option to close the region’s file similar to other areas in Damascus suburbs that have faced the same fate, residents say.  Local activist Namir al-Diri told...

Israeli authorities have arrested three Turkish tourists in Jerusalem over an incident that followed Muslim prayers at a flashpoint holy site, a police spokesman said on Saturday. The spokesman did not elaborate on the circumstances of Friday's arrests, which came as Israel confronted...

A year after it was liberated from Islamic State group control, the Syrian town of Jarabulus is rebuilding — thanks in large part to help from Turkey. The rebuilding of Jarabulus has begun. Apartment buildings are springing up, infrastructure is being restored, and Ankara’s...

Islamic State has been crushed in Iraq and Syria, Theresa May has said. She told troops at a Christmas address in Cyprus that the jihadi group nolonger held any significant territory thanks to efforts by British forces. Standing in front of a Typhoon fighter to speak to 100 servicemen...

Real Madrid realistically need to end Barcelona’s 24-match unbeaten run to maintain hopes of retaining their La Liga title when Spanish football’s two behemoths meet in the Clasico Saturday. Barca lead fourth-placed Madrid by 11 points at the top of the table, albeit Real do have a game...

After a 2-month-old Syrian boy lost both his left eye and his mother in a regime attack on a besieged suburb of the capital Damascus, the world began to take an increasingly visible stand. Since Turkey’s Anadolu Agency first reported the story of the Syrian toddler who became a symbol...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- An Israeli air strike hit a ballistic missile base north of Damascus late on Friday, local activists said. The new target of the Israeli air force was the 155th Brigade near Qutaifa town in the eastern Qalamoun region where the base is believed to host Scud...

Israeli police arrested three Turkish citizens who tried to performed Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque, according to eyewitness accounts.   “Earlier today, Israeli police banned a number of Turkish pilgrims from entering the Al-Aqsa mosque compound,” an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists on Friday launched a campaign on social media demanding the regime forces and key ally Russia to stop killing children in Idlib province as more than 107 children have been killed since May. Since the "de-escalation zone" deal went into effect in May,...

Syrian government troops have retaken a string of small rebel-held pockets near the country's capital and in the northwest over the past two weeks, a monitor told AFP Friday. After dealing a blow to Daesh (ISIS) in Syria's east, pro-regime forces have been redeployed to fight rebels and...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu Friday said the military has completed the partial withdrawal from Syria ordered by President Vladimir Putin, ending over two years of active involvement in the conflict. "Your order to withdraw the contingent of Russian forces from Syria has been...

Key powerbrokers were scrambling Friday over plans to speed up a political settlement in Syria, with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura joining a second day of talks after negotiations in Moscow. A new round of peace talks backed by Russia, Iran and Turkey began in the Kazakh capital Astana on...

A Syrian congress of national dialogue will be held in the Russian city of Sochi on Jan. 29-30, the RIA news agency cited Kazakhstan's foreign ministry as saying on Friday.

Oil prices on Friday dipped away from some of their highest levels since 2015, weighed down by rising U.S. output and the expected January re-opening of the Forties pipeline in the North Sea. Despite this, markets remained well supported by ongoing supply cuts led by the Organization of...

By Yousef  Halabi  (Zaman Al Wasl)- December 22, 2016 was not a normal day for the people of Aleppo. It was a day associated with an infamous human tragedy that will never be forgotten.  The al-Assad regime, with Russian and Iranian support, displaced thousands of...

When Rosa, now 14, asked her Daesh (ISIS) captors about her younger sisters Bushra, 12, and Suhayla, 7, she was told they had been killed for misbehaving. “At that point, I didn’t care about anything anymore. Even if I died,” she said. “I never thought I’d see them again.” The sisters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish militias have dug trenches and mobilized more troops in the towns of al-Malikiya town and Ras al Ayn at the Turkish border, days after the Turkish president slammed a U.S.-backed militant group, vowing to clear his country's border with Syria of "terrorists."...

U.N. special envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday he planned to organize a next round of Syrian peace talks in Geneva in the second half of January. De Mistura was speaking in Moscow at a news conference after holding talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov....

A senior leader in Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas warned Thursday of the potential collapse of a reconciliation agreement made with political rivals Fatah. "The reconciliation is collapsing and everyone must intervene to save it," Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza head of Hamas, told a...

The Palestinian president welcomed Thursday a United Nations General Assembly resolution criticising the US government's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. "This decision reaffirms once again that the just Palestinian cause enjoys the support of international...