(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian doctor was savagely beaten by members of an Islamist group in Douma city, northeastern the capital after a Facebook post criticizing rebels in the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, activists said on Thursday. Nouman al-Fawal, field medic and activist, has expressed...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered an investigation after dozens of complaints from Arab families about relatives they say have not been heard from since their arrest by Kurdish forces. Kurds control an autonomous region in north Iraq, and they also held the disputed Kirkuk...

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

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took Markada town, last ISIS stronghold in Hasaka province, local activists said on Thursday. Capture of Markada followed a series of rapid defeats for the Islamic State in northeastern Syria,  bringing the self-declared caliphate...

The European Union and the United States on Wednesday reaffirmed support for Lebanon after the resignation of its prime minister, striking a sharp contrast to Saudi Arabia, which accuses Beirut of declaring war because of the Shi‘ite group Hezbollah. Statements of support from EU ambassadors...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian human rights watchdog says 923 civilians were killed in October by the Syrian regime, ISIS, Russia and the US-led coalition. The Syrian Network for Human Rights on November 1 said  398 of the deaths were killed by the Syrian regime, including 398...

Saudi Arabian authorities have made further arrests in an anti-corruption crackdown on the kingdom’s political and business elite, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Dozens of royal family members, officials and business executives have already been held in the purge...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army and its allied militias have surrounded and started to enter Albu Kamal, Daesh's (ISIS) last significant stronghold in Syria, the pro-Hezbollah al-Manar television reported on Wednesday. Daesh's "caliphate" has been all but destroyed over the past two years...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)-  An ISIS wanted list issued in Raqqa city before its fall shows that most of the 82 detained people were charged for sorcery, spying, drug dealing, such accusations have no repent and cost some of them their lives. The rapid advances against ISIS by the Syrian...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that missile attacks by Yemen's Houthis targeting Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh were a reaction to what he called Saudi aggression. "How should the Yemeni people react to bombardment of their country. So they are not allowed to use their own...

Oil prices fell on Wednesday as Chinese crude imports slipped to their lowest level in a year, although traders said the overall market remains well supported on the back of OPEC-led supply cuts. Traders said the market was eyeing growing tensions in the Middle East with concern, keeping a...

China’s raw materials purchases slowed in October from record-breaking levels a month earlier, the latest sign that Beijing’s factories have been clearing inventory ahead of unprecedented government steps to curb smog over winter. Part of the slowdown from September was seasonal, with...

U.S. and Turkish troops are “illegal invader” forces on Syrian territory and Syria will “deal with” them, a top adviser to President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday. Bouthaina Shaaban also said in a television interview that Damascus would not give up on the northern city of Raqqa, which was...

Over the past 24 hours, the drumbeat of war in the Middle East has risen to a fever-pitch. Saudi Arabia has  provoked  both an internal domestic, and a foreign crisis to permit Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to realise his grandiose vision of the Saudi state. Internally, Salman...

 Russia rejected on Tuesday a report by an international inquiry blaming the Syrian government for a deadly toxic gas attack, casting doubt on whether the U.N. Security Council can agree to extend the investigation’s mandate before it expires next week. Russia vetoed an initial U.S. bid...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- An official document obtained by Zaman al-Wasl reveals that the Syrian regime had transferred most of chemical weapons stockpiles in 2013 to secret depots held by Maher al-Assad, de-facto military commander of Syria after the deadly Sarin gas attack on Eastern Ghouta...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's leading rescuing group on Tuesday has appealed to the United Nations to break the four-year-old siege of Eastern Ghouta suburbs where about 400,000 people have been suffering malnutrition and deadly diseases.   The Civils Defense said 10 people,...

Syria's army and its allies will keep fighting in Syria after the battle ends in Deir al-Zor province, where Daesh (ISIS) has its last significant stronghold, President Bashar al-Assad said Tuesday. He also indicated that he might take the war to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces...

A Syrian official said Tuesday the war-ravaged country plans to sign the Paris climate accord. Until now, it had been the only United Nations member state not to have done so. The move was announced at a global climate meeting in Bonn, Germany. It means the United States would be the...

LONDON (Reuters) - The global rally in stocks showed no sign of slowing on Tuesday, as upbeat investors pushed the most widely-tracked index of world stocks up for a ninth straight day and it sailed past the 500-point barrier. The latest leg of the run came as Japan’s Nikkei hit its...