(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local monitoring unit in eastern Deir Ezzor province said 4 displaced women had been raped by the regime forces and allied militias in the past few weeks. Furat (Euphrates) Post Network warned people from returning to their homes in the the regime-held areas in...

At least 16 people have died while waiting for medical evacuation from Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta region, the United Nations said Thursday. Jan Egeland, head of the U.N.'s humanitarian taskforce for Syria, said a list put together several months ago of nearly 500 civilians in...

Palestinian FM Riyad al-Malki: No peace plan can be imagined with excluding Jerusalem: Anadolu Agency  

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Thursday thwarted a major attack by the regime army and Iranian-backed militias in the southern countryside of Idlib province, local reporter said. Fierce clashes took place early Thursday near the town of al-Mushairfa southeastern of Idlib city....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for Syria's High Negotiations Committee said the opposition is not as weak as some are trying to portray it, assuring that the unity of Cairo, Moscow and Riyadh platforms has showed a concrete stance prevented the U.N. envoy from using the multiplicity of the...

The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has hit 1 million, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday, as war has left more than 80 percent of the population short of food, fuel, clean water and access to healthcare. Yemen, one of the Arab world's poorest...

Russia's parliament Thursday ratified an agreement with Damascus to expand the Russian military's naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus. The agreement was signed in Syria in January and was sent last week by Russian President Vladimir Putin for ratification by the parliament's...

When Vladimir Kabunin signed up as a private military contractor, he saw a chance to make a wage much higher than any he could earn in his provincial Russian hometown. Happy to be able to support his wife and son, the ex-police officer left Orenburg, nearly 1,500 km (940 miles)...

(Eqtsad)- After an absence of more than 50 years, stone and clay dwellings and houses have remerged in conjunction with the regime forces destroying many buildings and houses in Daraa province.  “Mud and stone houses emerged in the past two years in several places in Daraa...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local monitoring unit in eastern Deir Ezzor province said 4 displaced women had been raped by the regime forces and allied militias in the past few weeks. Furat (Euphrates) Post Network warned people from returning to their homes in the the regime-held areas...

More than 11,000 Houthis were killed in Yemen over the last three months, said a Saudi coalition forces spokesperson. Turki al-Maliki, Saudi coalition spokesman, noted in a Riyadh press conference, that Tuesday’s firing of a ballistic missile targeting that capital did not cause any...

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has warned member states ahead of a voting on a resolution calling for the reversal of President Donald Trump's decision on Jerusalem, according to a report by Foreign Policy. On Thursday, the UN General Assembly will hold a rare emergency special...

South Korean soldiers fired 20 warning machine gun rounds Thursday, turning back North Korean soldiers apparently pursuing a comrade who had earlier dashed across the rivals' shared border, officials said. It is the fourth time this year a North Korean soldier has defected across the world's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six civilians, including four children, were killed on Wednesday when an ISIS blast rocked a checkpoint for the U.S.-led Kurdish forces in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local media unit said. Furat (Euphrates) Post news site reported that the ISIS car bomb had targeted a...

Kuwait has ordered an investigation into a $1.1 billion deal to buy 30 military helicopters from France, a minister said Wednesday, after reports of alleged kickbacks. The oil-rich emirate agreed to buy the Airbus Caracal helicopters for one billion euros ($1.1 billion) in August 2016...

Protests raged for a third day in Iraqi Kurdistan on Wednesday despite a clampdown by security forces after five people were killed as ire exploded at the calamitous fallout from an independence vote. Demonstrators in the town of Rania, where five protesters were shot dead and dozens...

An Israeli court extended the detention of Ahed al-Tamimi for 10 days on Wednesday after she was arrested on Tuesday over a film in which she appeared to be confronting two soldiers, in Al-Nabi Saleh, a small village in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli court where the 17-year-old...

Leading Kurdish opposition movement Gorran has withdrawn its ministers from Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its member Yousif Mohamed has resigned as parliament speaker, party sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The Kurdistan Islamic Group (Komal), another...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of local of activists in   in the northern countryside of central Homs province have established an independent civilian body to improve the displaced living conditions. More than 10,000 displaced families in the northern countryside of...

Qatar's emir was to tour six West African nations starting Wednesday in search of new markets, six months after Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries cut ties with the wealthy emirate. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Lulwa al-Khater told a press conference that Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad...