(Zaman Al Wasl)- Colonel Riad al-Asaad, f ounder of Free Syrian Army, said the new tribal bloc amid the armed opposition has turned a powerful arm that can hamper the Assad regime and its allied militias. The statement of the former Colonel in the Syrian Air Force who defected in July...

Palestinian teenager Fawzi al-Juneidi has become the symbol of ongoing protests against U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision last week to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.  Al-Juneidi, 16, was detained on Thursday during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron (Al-Khalil)...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed militias in Syria said they have formed a joint military center with the Iraqi army to protect their common border region after ousting Islamic State militants. Commanders of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, met...

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq Monday and killed 29 of the group's fighters, Turkey's armed forces said. The PKK fighters were believed to be preparing an attack on Turkish border posts from the Hakurk and Metina regions of northern Iraq,...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday intensified efforts to rally Middle Eastern countries against U.S. recognition of occupied Jerusalem as Israel's capital, setting up talks with Arab leaders beginning in Cairo. Abbas will meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt, which...

The Pentagon Monday voiced skepticism about Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement that he had ordered the partial withdrawal of troops from Syria. Putin visited the war-torn nation Monday and said a "significant part" of the Russian troop contingent in Syria is heading home...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime pounded the old city of Daraa with surface-to-surface missile on Monday, leaving dozen of people wounded, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The attack near al-Omari Mosque has violated a 7-old-month ceasefire agreement brokers by regional powers/ The...

Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday ordered members of Saraya al-Salam militia, his Sadrist movement’s military wing, to hand over their weapons to the Iraqi government after defeating the Daesh terrorist group.   “I ordered the Saraya al-Salam group to...

President Vladimir Putin visited a Russian military air base in Syria on Monday and announced a partial pullout of Russian forces from the war-torn country. Putin made a stopover at the Hmeimim air base in Syria's coastal province of Latakia while en route to Egypt. The base, in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- About 250 Syrian tribal figures met in Istanbul on Sunday in a reunion meeting to unite Arab tribes and discuss its role in Syria post-war. Imad al-Issa al-Dulaimi, head of al-Dulaim tribe delegation told Zaman al-Wasl the first day of the conference had set a...

Saudi Arabia on Monday announced a lifting of the kingdom's decades-long ban on cinemas, a landmark decision part of a series of social reforms ushered in by the powerful crown prince. The culture and information ministry announced in a statement that "commercial cinemas will be allowed...

 Israel's leader faces renewed pressure from Europe on Monday to reboot the Middle East's moribund peace process following widespread criticism of the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as the Jewish state's capital. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be in Brussels for an...

The Syrian regime army and Iranian-backed militias backed by Russian air power stepped up a military campaign against rebels in eastern Hama province in a push toward the rebel stronghold of Idlib province in northwestern Syria, rebels and witnesses said. They said dozens of aerial...

Russia’s Defense Ministry is bewildered at the statement made by France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian that Russia has misappropriated the victory over IS, the ministry said on Sunday. "The defeat of IS in Syria is first of all result of actions by the Syrian leadership and...

Relations between Israel and Turkey took a bitter turn Sunday as their leaders traded accusations of involvement in terrorism, days after the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would fight against the controversial...

BAE Systems and Qatar have entered into a contract valued at around 5 billion pounds ($6.7 billion) for the country to buy 24 Typhoon combat aircraft, the British defense group said on Sunday. The company said delivery was expected in late 2022 and that the contract was subject “to...

Palestinian protests waned in the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip on Sunday while violence flared near the U.S. embassy in Beirut over U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Four days of protests in the Palestinian territories over...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the media office in Aleppo Free Police command said that campaign launched by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and other British media is not against the Free Police in Aleppo specifically, but against the supporting companies such as Ajax and Adam Smith...

The Arab countries stick to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative for resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Abul-Gheit said early Sunday. “If the Arabs decided to freeze or withdraw the peace initiative, they would be opening fire on themselves,”...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during Pence’s visit to the region this month in a snub over the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Palestinian foreign minister said on Saturday. Violence erupted for a third day in...