(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Abu Nazmi, a Turkish old man, has been trapped with about 600,000 people in Eastern Ghouta suburbs where no hope their agony may reach an end after seven years of siege. Fawzi Suzar, who spent 25 years of his 83 in shoes making in the embattled district...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S. army has re-deployed some of its units in an oil-rich region in the northeastern province of Hasaka, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Muhannad al-Yousef said a unit of the U.S. army has been moved from al-Shaddadi town in the southern countryside to...

Virtual currency bitcoin soared to an all-time high above $10,000 on Tuesday on major exchanges and digital currency indexes, including the widely followed Luxembourg-based trading platform BitStamp. Created in 2009, bitcoin uses encryption and a blockchain database that enables the...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)-  Hamza, 3-year-old, is a victim of the Syrian regime siege on Eastern Ghouta’s siege which has been since 2013. The child boy, who lost his parents in the regime bombing, has been suffering malnutrition with thousands more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine militiamen loyal to Bashar al-Assad were killed  on Tuesday  in clashes with ISIS in the Syrian desert, local activists said. Despite the victory declaration against the extremist group in Syria, ISIS militants still control swaths of territory in the...

Turkey said on Tuesday it could expand its military mission in Syria to two other provinces, potentially bringing its forces into confrontation with U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters that Ankara considers its enemies. Turkish troops have operated an “observation mission” in rebel-held...

Shaven-headed former jihadists filled a classroom in northern Syria as a Muslim cleric taught them a more moderate form of Islam than the version they had imposed in Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Their class was in a new rehabilitation center for Islamic State members set...

Media activists opposed to the Syrian government have documented much of the worst of the war in Syria. However, as President Bashar al-Assad regains control of opposition-held territory, these civilian journalists fear they will have no place in Syria’s future. “It’s not like I did not...

Syria's brutal six-year civil war may be slowly winding down, but the country is awash in weapons and an array of local militias and thousands of foreign forces – some of whom may never leave. Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad has regained control over large swathes of Syria with...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee family of 5 was found in a refugee shelter in the Asian side of Istanbul in Turkey tafter hree days of displacement and losing contact with realtives. The family, consisting of a father, mother and four children, experienced a harsh detention...

Senior Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, a former National Guard head once seen as a contender to the throne, has been freed after more than three weeks in detention, according to Twitter messages by royal family members on Tuesday. Miteb was among dozens of royal family members,...

North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Wednesday, two U.S. government sources said, a week after President Donald Trump put North Korea back on a U.S list of countries that it says support terrorism. Later, the Pentagon said that it had detected a “probable” missile launch from North...

A Russian fighter jet on Saturday intercepted an American reconnaissance aircraft over the international waters of the Black Sea, local media reported Tuesday. Citing the press office of the Southern Military District, Russia's official news agency TASS said the military detected an...

A government initiative to air public opinion on the causes of South Sudan’s long-running civil war was accused of a cover-up on Tuesday. Lawmakers said officials involved in carrying out the national dialogue launched by President Salva Kiir in May had hidden some tapes and documents....

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has opened a three-month amnesty window for the return of public funds illegally stashed abroad by individuals and companies, he said on Tuesday. Upon the expiry of the amnesty at end of February next year, the government will arrest and...

 OPEC is heading for tougher-than-expected policy talks this week amid concern that its efforts to rebalance the oil market might overshoot by creating a global deficit and spurring a further price rally. “It will not be an easy meeting and we always look at various scenarios,”...

When the Syrian uprising began in 2011, Karam al-Masri was a young law student in Aleppo. His schoolteacher parents had raised him to be an engaged citizen, so Masri followed anti-Assad regime protesters into the streets, and posted to Facebook the video footage he captured on his old Nokia...

Assad regime agreed Tuesday to a ceasefire in opposition-held Eastern Ghouta, following days of heavy bombardment, the United Nations envoy to the war-ravaged country said. "I was just informed by the Russians today at the P5 meeting that the Russians have proposed and the government...

Facebook Inc will expand its pattern recognition software to other countries after successful tests in the U.S. to detect users with suicidal intent, the world’s largest social media network said on Monday. Facebook began testing the software in the United States in March, when the...

Russia launched a second rocket from its new Vostochny cosmodrome in the far east on Tuesday, as Moscow seeks to ease dependence on Baikonur in Kazakhstan. Marking another milestone after the inaugural liftoff last year, the Soyuz rocket carrying a weather satellite and other equipment...