Former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about Russia, and ABC News said he was prepared to testify that before taking office President Donald Trump had directed him to make contact with Russians. Reuters could not...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took two villages from Daesh (ISIS) in eastern Deir Ezzor province, the SDF’s media centre said on Friday. The Kurdish-led alliance has advanced in al-Sheitat region in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor,...

Syria’s government delegation quit U.N.-led peace talks in Geneva on Friday and said it would not return next week unless the opposition withdrew a statement demanding President Bashar al-Assad play no role in any interim post-war government. “For us (this) round is over, as a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 77 regime troops from Tartus province were killed in November, according to pro-regime news feeds and activists. The death toll included 12 officers and 65 soldiers killed in Deir Ezzor, Hama and Eastern Ghouta suburbs. The Alawites-dominated coastal...

Turkey sent 180 commandos to the Syrian city of Al-Bab on Thursday, the military said. The troops from the gendarmerie's “Wolves” battalion, based in the Black Sea province of Tokat, held a leaving ceremony before heading for Syria. Turkish-backed Syrian fighters took Al-Bab, 40...

The Syrian regime army and a Syrian state television team Friday entered the eastern Lebanese town of Tfail, one day after around 110 Lebanese and Syrian families returned to the town, a security source said.

Islamist militants stormed a provincial government complex for agriculture research in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, killing nine students and wounding 35 others, police and rescue officials said. Police and military troops killed five attackers during a firefight and...

UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura pushed on Thursday both the regime and opposition delegations to enter into the core subject of negotiations, and handed them a 12-item paper including his concept for the future of Syria. A copy of the envoy’s paper, which was received by...

About 20 jurisdictions are currently on a draft European Union black list of tax havens, a senior EU official said on Friday, but the final decision on the composition of the list will be made by EU finance ministers in a meeting on Tuesday. EU experts have prepared two lists. One...

(Zambian Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels brought down an army helicopter in southwest Syria Friday, near the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, a activist group said. Pro-regime media outlets said two Brigadier Generals and Lieutenant Colonel had been killed. The Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have reached a one-month truce with the Islamic State in villages along the Iraqi border in Hasaka province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl on Friday. The truce has halted the last phase of the SDF campaign to uproot the militants from...

Amazon.com Inc this week announced a flurry of new machine learning features for its Amazon Web Services cloud computing business, raising its challenge to Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms for the lead in artificial intelligence. The new offerings will enable AWS customers to develop...

 More than 400 U.S. Marines and their artillery are leaving Syria after helping to capture the city of Raqqa from Islamic State, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militant group said on Thursday. Last month, U.S.-backed militias declared victory in Raqqa, Islamic State’s former...

Over the last few months there has been increased speculation that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) may have finally arrived at a time of reckoning over the future of their relationship with Israel. The two states are seen as going through the motions leading to...

In al-Houla, in Syria's northern Homs province, many residents are waiting for the cold winter months with trepidation. Living in one of the government- besieged areas  in the country, Syrians say that there is a lack of diesel and most of the trees have been used for firewood....

The United Nations Thursday appealed for 500 patients, many at risk of death, to be urgently evacuated from Syria's Eastern Ghouta region, one of the last rebel-held strongholds. Jan Egeland, advisor to the UN's special envoy for Syria, told a press conference in Geneva that there are...

Representatives of Syria’s warring sides sat just meters apart in separate rooms at U.N. peace talks on Thursday, but mediator Staffan de Mistura stopped short of bringing them together in what diplomats had hoped might be a minor breakthrough. Previous rounds of talks have gone almost...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Kurdish National Council (KNC) on Thursday has handed over two letters to the U.N Envoy to Syria and to the head of the opposition demanding  a constitutional recognition of the rights of "the Kurdish people, senior Kurdish officials said. Abdul Karim...

(Eqtsad)- “I was born in Syria, I have a Syrian identity document, and when I arrived in Egypt, I was not treated like a refuge or Syrian citizen neither by UNHCR nor by the Egyptian authorities.” These are the words of more than 5,000 Syrian Palestinians living in Egypt who were...

At least 800 civilians have been killed in strikes in Iraq and Syria by the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State since the campaign began in 2014, according to a report released by the coalition on Thursday. The estimate in the monthly report, which said coalition strikes had...