Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry announced this week it will host a meeting of the  Syrian opposition  later this month. The meeting, which will be held in Riyadh, aims to bring together opposition factions and form a joint negotiating delegation ahead of a new round of UN-brokered...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have pounded Douma city with cluster bombs on Sunday, leaving two people killed, local activists said as shelling on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus have killed at least 70 people since Tuesday.    The regime army backed by...

Syrian troops and allied fighters advanced Saturday to capture most of Albukamal, a monitor said, in a tug-of-war over the Daesh (ISIS) last urban stronghold in the country. The town in Syria's oil-rich Deir Ezzor province has changed hands several times, with government troops...

Lebanon’s foreign minister may not attend an Arab League meeting in Cairo on Sunday and a final decision will be taken in the morning, a senior Lebanese official told Reuters on Saturday. The official said Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil wanted to avoid an anticipated confrontation at...

Palestinian officials expressed surprise on Saturday at a U.S. decision to close the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Washington unless the group enters peace negotiations with Israel, and said they would not surrender to blackmail. A U.S. State Department official said that...

Whipping winds and 20-foot waves in the South Atlantic were hindering the international search for an Argentine submarine with 44 crew members on board on Saturday as authorities readied a mission to comb the sea floor for signs of the missing military vessel. The German-built ARA San...

Zaman Al Wasl  a récupéré un document officiel condamnant le régime de Bashar al-Assad et révélant sa fraude dans l’affaire de la remise complète de son stock secret d'armes chimiques, avant quelques jours de l'arrivée des experts des Nations Unies pour entreprendre le démantèlement de...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 22 regime troops from Tartus province have been killed since the first of November, according to pro-regime social media pages. The death toll included 4 officers and 18 soldiers killed in Deir Ezzor, Hama and Eastern Ghouta suburbs. The...

Volkswagen will invest 22.8 billion euros ($26.9 billion) in its main car brand over the next five years, it said on Saturday, a day after it announced a spending program aimed at bolstering its position as a maker of electric cars. Most of that sum, around 14 billion euros, will be...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday batted back an apology from the NATO military alliance after his name appeared on an “enemy poster” at a drill, saying such disrespectful behavior could not be so easily forgiven. “You have seen the disrespectful behavior at the NATO drill...

Saudi Arabia has summoned its ambassador in Germany home for consultations over comments by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel about the political crisis in Lebanon. The Saudi foreign ministry said the government also handed Germany’s representative in Riyadh a protest note over...

Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister this month while in Saudi Arabia, said on Saturday he would clarify his position when he returns to Beirut next week. Hariri’s resignation on Nov. 4 threw Lebanon into political crisis and put it center-stage in the Middle East’s...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Shelling by the Syrian regime on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus on Saturday killed at least 10 civilians, topping the death toll to 62 in 5 days of heavy bombing, local activists said. Saturday’s airstrikes have targeted Hazzeh and Madyara towns...

Egyptian authorities reopened the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday for the first time since the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority (PA) took over the terminal from Hamas group earlier this month. The terminal will remain open for three days in both directions, according...

Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State, is taken and in ruins. U.S. troops and civilian aid workers are in the Syrian city, helping local officials restore basic services such as food, water and electricity. But the recapture of ISIS-held territory in Iraq and Syria is...

France should not interfere in Iran’s missile program, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said on Saturday according to state media. French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that Tehran should be less aggressive in the region and should clarify the...

Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri arrived in Paris on Saturday for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, a statement from Hariri’s press office said. Hariri resigned as Lebanese prime minister on Nov. 4 while in Saudi Arabia, plunging Lebanon into crisis. He will meet Macron at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 300 wives of Islamic State fighters, including French and Libyans, have refused to flee Albu Kamal town near the border with Iraq, as fierce fighting takes place to uproot ISIS from its last stronghold in eastern Syria. According to Zaman al-Wasl source, the...

Russia vetoed on Friday a Japanese-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution to extend by one month an international inquiry into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, just a day after Moscow blocked a U.S. push to renew the investigation. The mandate for the joint...

Qatar’s foreign minister on Friday criticized “reckless leadership” in the Gulf for a number of crises including the Gulf rift and Lebanon, taking apparent aim at Saudi Arabia. The diplomatic crisis, in which Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt have boycotted...