The Syrian army Thursday entered Albukamal, the last town in the country held by Daesh (ISIS), several days after the extremists recaptured it, an activist group said. The town in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor on the border with Iraq was initially captured by the army and allied...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  The Syrian regime army backed by Russian jets on Thursday stepped up shelling and airstrikes on a besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs in Damascus two days after rebels stormed an army base in the area, rebels, a war monitor and residents said. The aerial bombing left...

President Robert Mugabe is insisting he remains Zimbabwe’s only legitimate ruler, an intelligence source said on Thursday, and is resisting mediation by a Catholic priest to allow the 93-year-old former guerrilla a graceful exit after a military coup. The priest, Fidelis Mukonori, is...

Lebanon’s Saad al-Hariri is expected to leave Saudi Arabia for France within 48 hours, before flying home to Beirut to officially submit his resignation as Lebanese prime minister, a source close to Hariri told Reuters on Thursday. Hariri announced his resignation in a televised...

The Syrian army backed by Russian jets on Wednesday stepped up shelling and air strikes on a besieged rebel-held enclave in Damascus a day after rebels stormed an army base in the area, rebels, a war monitor and residents said. The bombardment follows a surprise ground offensive by...

“Fake news” is a neologism that grew to prominence during the 2016 US presidential election, thanks to  Donald Trump . But while fabricated news and the spread of misinformation seems like a largely recent phenomena, it is a problem that has led to political instability, war, and even the...

Prime Minister Saad Hariri will arrive in France "in the coming days" with his family, a source inside the French presidential palace told Reuters Wednesday. French President Emmanuel Macron has invited Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his family to France, the French presidency said in a...

France’s Macron says invitation to Hariri is not an offer of political exile

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Saudi Arabia has invited 144 opposiiton blocs and figures to attend what it called an "expanded" conference next Wednesday, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The National Coalition and the key opposition platforms of Cairo and Moscow have been invited amid aims to unify its...

A toddler writhed in pain on a hospital bed in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, a tube running through her nose, her eyes swelled shut and lashes wet with tears. In the hallway outside, doctor Mohammed al-Ayzari was alert, but his face looked worn from apparent exhaustion. "The...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Crowds of Shiite pilgrims coming to Damascus have multiplied enormously this year in celebration of the Arba'een Pilgrimage,  the world's largest Shiite public gathering that is held at the end of the 40-day mourning period following Ashura, the religious ritual for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four civilians were wounded when an explosive device detonated in al-Nouaima town in southern Daraa province, military source told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. Activists and rebel groups have accused regime forces of planting landmines and explosive devices in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for the U.S.-led Syrian Democratic Forces has defected over a coordination with the Turkish intelligence, sources said on Wednesday,  No further details revealed about Colonel Talal Sillo who read most of the victory statements of the Kurdish-led alliance...

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun said Wednesday that the country's Prime Minister Saad Hariri was being "detained" in Saudi Arabia, where he announced his resignation earlier this month. "Nothing justifies the failure of Prime Minister Saad Hariri to return for 12 days, therefore we...

The main Syrian Kurdish political party, the PYD, said on Wednesday the U.S.-led coalition against Daesh (ISIS) should continue to operate in Syria while there is no political solution to the Syrian crisis. PYD's co-president, Shahoz Hasan, in a written message to Reuters, was...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The third part of Yellow Box documentay about the Syrian Chemcial weapons has fouced on the deadly checmical attack on Eastsern Ghouta on August 21, 2013 that left more than 1466 people killed and how the Lebanese Hezbollah militia took part in the massacre. ...

 Zimbabwe’s military seized power early on Wednesday targeting “criminals” around President Robert Mugabe but gave assurances on national television that the 93-year-old leader and his family were “safe and sound”. Soldiers and armored vehicles blocked roads to the main government...

 Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Tuesday an employee had attached the wrong photos to a statement accusing the United States of providing de-facto air cover for Islamic State in Syria after the mistake was spotted online. The ministry said it would investigate the incident, which...

 Turkey on Tuesday said it was appalled by the approach of the U.S. Department of Defense towards an agreement between the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and Islamic State to withdraw Islamic State militants from the Syrian city of Raqqa. Last month, a YPG militia spokesman said that...

The son of a local suspected Daesh (ISIS) emir was arrested Tuesday near a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a security source told The Daily Star.