Iraqi forces launched an offensive on Saturday to capture Rawa, the last remaining town under Islamic-State control, leaving the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate on the verge of complete defeat. The capture of the town would mark the end of Islamic State’s era of territorial rule over...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 3000 displaced people have arrived to the PYD-held camps in Hasaka province, fleeing the border town of Albu kamal east of Deir Ezzor province, activists said on Saturday. Some Iraqi families were among the displaced who settled in the deserted al-Hol camp...

 Wall Street ended marginally lower on Friday, with losses in Intel and Apple as investors worried about the future of promised corporate tax cuts following dueling plans unveiled by Republican lawmakers. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the week lower for...

(Reuters) - Wall Street ended marginally lower on Friday, with losses in Intel and Apple as investors worried about the future of promised corporate tax cuts following dueling plans unveiled by Republican lawmakers. The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the week lower...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- A collective wedding took place in southern suburbs of Damascus for 34 young Palestinians and Syrians, in a move defying fear in the war-torn country. The event, which held in Yalda suburb, has been organized by ‘ Palestinians of Syria for Relief and...

Nearly a year after Islamic State was driven from its Libyan stronghold Sirte, residents surveying their wrecked homes feel neglected and vulnerable, still afraid of the militant threat that has waned but not vanished. Though security in the Mediterranean coastal city has improved,...

A Hezbollah-run media unit said on Friday Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported to have been in the Syrian town of Albu Kamal during the Syrian army and its allies’ operation to clear it. The military unit did not say what had happened to Baghdadi, give further details...

 The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party called on Thursday for the repatriation of half a million Syrian refugees living in Germany, saying the war there was nearly over and that President Bashar al-Assad had urged refugees to return home. Earlier on Thursday, Syria’s...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists called on the International Community to save civilians trapped in last ISIS pockets in Deir Ezzor province as the Syrian and Russian warplanes step up its aerial bombing. People of Hwaijet Qatea town in Euphrates valley are afraid of imminent...

Iran manufactured the ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Shiite rebels toward the Saudi capital and remnants of it bore "Iranian markings," the top U.S. Air Force official in the Mideast said Friday, backing the kingdom's earlier allegations. The comments by Lt. Gen. Jeffrey L....

The Saudi-led military coalition fighting against Yemen’s Houthi movement reopened a land border crossing, partly easing a blockade imposed earlier this week, but aid agencies warned of famine and a health catastrophe if other ports stay shut. The coalition said on Monday it would close...

Hezbollah’s leader said on Friday that Saudi Arabia had declared war on Lebanon and his Iran-backed group, accusing Riyadh of detaining Saad al-Hariri and forcing him to resign as Lebanon’s prime minister to destabilize the country. Hariri’s resignation has plunged Lebanon into crisis,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition's interim government has formed three military corps in northern Syria in an attempt to build national army and unifying scattred rebel groups in  areas controlled by the Turkey-backed Euphrates Shield, sources said. The move to hand over the...

 The Texas church where more than two dozen people were killed by a gunman during Sunday services will be demolished, the pastor said. Pastor Frank Pomeroy told leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention earlier this week that it would be too painful to continue using First Baptist Church...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian media activist Mahmoud Orabi was shot dead by a masked gunman on Thursday in front of his home in Turkey, brother told Zaman al-Wasl. The assailant who was riding motorbike has opened fire on Orabi at 3.18 p.m. in front of his house. No more information come to...

In this report Zaman Al Wasl TV highlights the suffering of people in the opposition-held areas in central Homs province as hospitals and medical centers are close to complete closure due to lack of aid and fund. Medics and health workers have appealed to the United Nation and the...

 Syrian regime army declared victory over Islamic State on Thursday, saying its capture of the jihadists’ last town in the country marked the collapse of their three-year, hardline reign in the in the region. The army and its allies are still fighting Islamic State in desert areas near...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Chief negotiator of the opposition’s High Negotiation Committee said the ‘realism’’ is being talked about recently does not mean acceptance of Russian dictates of political solution, stressing that everyone who accepts Russian Sochi should be excluded from Riyad II. The...

(Reuters) - Lebanon believes that Saudi Arabia is holding leading Sunni Muslim politician Saad al-Hariri and plans to work with foreign states to secure his return to the country, a top Lebanese government official told Reuters on Thursday. Hariri resigned as prime minister on Saturday in a...

The top adviser to Iran’s supreme leader said he expects the Syrian army to soon recapture rebel-held Idlib province, as well as eastern Syria, an area where U.S.-backed militias hold swathes of territory. Iran is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Iranian...