With the map of Syria’s conflict decisively redrawn in President Bashar al-Assad’s favor, his Russian allies want to convert military gains into a settlement that stabilizes the shattered nation and secures their interests in the region. A year after the opposition’s defeat in Aleppo,...

Alaa and Noor, two young sisters from Syria’s besieged Eastern Ghouta district, are informing the world of their difficult circumstances through their joint Twitter account. Eight-year-old Alaa and ten-year-old Noor voice the pains and hopes of Eastern Ghouta’s children in tweets they...

Despite the passage of years, a Syrian refugee in Turkey is still haunted by the horrors of her past under the Assad regime. Muna B., 33, has been living in the Reyhanli district of Turkey’s southeastern Hatay province for two years. Before fleeing to Turkey, she was arrested...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Un homme âgé obsédé par le temps. Son obsession se manifeste par sa collection de montres et d’horloges et le temps qu’il met à les réparer et les entretenir sans lassitude.  Un jeune nerveux, assoiffé de pouvoir, extrémiste et jugeur.  Une...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Islamic State group arrested 8 members tried to escape from last ISIS stronghold in southern Damascus suburbs on Friday, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.  The move came after came after 19 Daesh fighters, including commanders, were evacuated from the district of...

Four Palestinians were martyred and scores more injured in clashes that erupted Friday in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip. In a statement, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Mohammed Amin Akel, 22, succumbed to injuries after having been shot multiple times by Israeli...

Two men were shot dead by Israeli gunfire in clashes in East Gaza on Friday, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as thousands of Palestinians take to the streets in protests. Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces as fallout continues over President Donald Trump’s...

The Pentagon is voicing growing alarm that the risky flying of Russian pilots in Syria could lead to a mishap -- or even the nightmare scenario of a US jet shooting down a Russian warplane. Defense officials this week highlighted several recent close calls with Russian planes, including...

Second Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces in Gaza clashes: health ministry

Hundreds of Muslim worshipers demonstrated inside Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound following Friday prayers to protest the recent U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “For the second Friday in a row, hundreds of Palestinians protested [U.S. President...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Kurdish militias killed four civilians in shelling targeted the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, local sources said on Thursday. The ground sheeling hit the town of al-Hajeen as hundreds of people keep fleeing ISIS-held areas. The Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army and Iranian-backed militias backed by Russian air power on Thursday have made gains in northeastern Syria, stepping up a military campaign against Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in a push towards its stronghold of Idlib province, local activists and commander...

Muslim-majority Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday called U.S. President Donald Trump an "international bully" and a "villain" for his move to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Trump last week reversed decades of U.S. policy by recognizing Jerusalem as...

Fraud squad detectives questioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Jerusalem residence on Friday, the seventh time in a nearly year-long corruption probe, reports said. Public radio and two privately-owned TV channels said that investigators arrived at the house shortly...

A Russian court on Friday found former economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev guilty of taking in $2-million bribe from an ally of President Vladimir Putin, in a case that could see him jailed for up to a decade. Ulyukayev is the highest-ranking official arrested in Putin's 17 years in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria’s regime president Bashar al-Assad openly and directly acknowledged that the groups subordinate to Brigadier General Suhail Hassan suffered heavy losses in their battles in Deir Ez Zor countryside as they headed towards al-Bu Kamal. Al-Assad’s comments verified news...

 The Turkish Coast Guard on Thursday rescued 68 migrants stranded on a small rocky islet in the Aegean Sea. The migrants, including women and children, were trying to reach Greek Islands when an inflatable boat carrying them got stuck at the small islet near Dikili district of...

Families are being torn apart by the rift between Qatar and three other Gulf Arab states which began six months ago, Amnesty International said on Thursday, despite measures to ease the impact of the crisis on ordinary citizens. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, along...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A round of Syria peace talks that ended on Thursday was a big missed opportunity but there may more talks next month if ideas can be found to encourage President Bashar al-Assad’s government to engage, U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said. He said neither side had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have evacuated 19 Daesh fighters, including commanders, from their stronghold in southern Damascus suburbs, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Thursday.  The extremist fighters have left the district of al-Hajer al-Aswad over the week under...