Veteran Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma, under house arrest after his 2015 arrest for alleged coup plotting, escaped across the border to Colombia on Friday. Ledezma, the best-known detained opponent of leftist President Nicolas Maduro after Leopoldo Lopez, said he had gone...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS suicide bomber killed at least 30 people in car bomb attack targeted US-backed Kurdish forces in Eastern Deir Ezzor province, local media unit said on Friday. The car bombing hit a checkpoint for the Syrian Democratic Forces near gathering for displaced...
Iraqi forces on Friday captured the border town of Rawa, the last remaining town under Islamic State control, signaling the collapse of the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate. Rawa’s capture marks the end of Islamic State’s era of territorial rule over a so-called caliphate that it...
France's Macron: 'I will welcome Hariri as Lebanese prime minister, he will then return to Beirut in days or weeks'
Six Russian long-range bombers struck Daesh (ISIS) targets near the town of Albu Kamal in Syria's Deir al-Zor province on Friday, the Defense Ministry said in a statement reported by Russian news agencies. The TU-22M3 bombers took off from bases in Russia and overflew Iran and Iraq...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Council of Damascus Governorate issued new decree to evacuate the Allawan area in Kafarsousa district, such a step enhancing the Iranian presence in the capital and endorsing forced displacement of the indigenous people due to sectarian agenda, local activists said....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two people have been killed in a car bomb struck northern city of Idlib, medics told Zaman al-Wasl on Friday. No rebel group claimed the responsibility for the attack that took place at the northern gate of the city. More Three people were killed in the southern...
Egyptian officials say authorities will temporarily reopen the country's border crossing with the Gaza Strip for the first time since Hamas ceded control of its side of the crossings to the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority. The officials say the Rafah crossing will be...
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey needed to clear the Afrin region of northwest Syria of Kurdish YPG militia fighters, who have been in the forefront of the battle there against Islamic State insurgents. Erdogan, speaking in Ankara to officials from the ruling AK...
Salvatore “Toto” Riina, the Sicilian Mafia’s most powerful boss of the 20th century who was convicted for ordering dozens of murders, died of natural causes early on Friday after almost a quarter of a century in jail. Riina, who turned 87 on Thursday, died in the prison ward of a...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people, including 5 children, have been killed in regime bombardment on Douma city, northeastern the capital, local media unit said on Friday. Ghouta Media Center said the regime forces have pounded the city with more than 70 rocket-propelled grenades...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zuhair Ahmed Ibrahim, the military pilot and notorious brigadier general, stood behind the killing of 60 people and wounding 450 more last Tuesday when his Russian Su-24 pounded the northern town of Atareb with six high-explosive bombs, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The...
Jews and Syrians are the groups most frequently targeted by hate speech in Turkish media, the latest report on the topic has revealed. As many as 48 different ethnic groups and communities were targeted in 2,466 instances of media hate speech in the four months from May to August,...
Russia cast its 10th veto on Thursday of United Nations Security Council action on Syria since the war began in 2011, blocking a US-drafted resolution to renew an international inquiry into who is to blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria. The mandate for the joint inquiry by the...
Lebanon’s prime minister Saad al-Hariri will arrive in France on Saturday and meet French President Emmanuel Macron, a source inside the French presidency said. Macron invited the Lebanese premier and his family to France on Wednesday, hoping to soothe a crisis triggered when Hariri...
Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Hezbollah is the root of the problem in Lebanon as it has hijacked the Lebanese system. During a joint press conference with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, Jubeir added that Hezbollah’s continuous interferences in Arab countries’...
A Turkish energy delegation has met with Iraqi top oil officials in Baghdad to discuss issues including the resumption of Kirkuk oil exports via the Turkish port of Ceyhan, Iraq’s oil ministry said in a statement on Thursday. Exports from oilfields in Kirkuk have been on hold since...
Thousands of civilians will die, including many children, unless a Saudi-led coalition fully lifts a blockade that has "choked off" aid supplies to Yemen, the heads of three UN agencies said Thursday. "Together, we issue another urgent appeal for the coalition to permit entry of...
Hamas on Thursday alleged Israeli spies used Bosnian passports to enter Tunisia and assassinate one of its drone experts as the Palestinian movement announced details of its probe into the December incident. Tunisian engineer Mohamed Zaouari was shot dead in his car in December 2016 by...
The United Nations Security Council is set to vote Thursday on rival U.S. and Russian proposals for extending the mandate of a body set up to investigate chemical weapons attacks in Syria. Authorization for the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) will expire at the end of the day unless...
