Kurdish Peshmerga forces on Monday redeployed from positions on Iraq’s Sinjar-Dohuk highway to a nearby border crossing. The Faysh Khabur crossing links the Duhok province in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region to both Turkey and Syria. “Peshmerga fighters have reclosed the main road...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the country's military operation in northwest Syria's Idlib province was largely completed but the neighboring region of Afrin, controlled by a Kurdish militia, remained an issue. Turkey's army began setting up observation posts in Idlib...
Kuwait's emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah has warned that the Gulf crisis was posing a threat to regional security. Addressing the opening session of the National Assembly on Tuesday, the emir said the crisis would have dangerous consequences on the Gulf security. ...
Human rights organizations are urging the Greek authorities to alleviate living conditions for thousands of migrants reaching the country’s island from Turkey. Human Rights Watch in a report published on Monday said thousands of asylum seekers are living in awful conditions on the Greek...
The U.S.-led coalition Tuesday denied striking Deir al-Zor city in eastern Syria after Damascus accused its jets of killing more than a dozen people. Syrian state television had said the U.S.-led coalition hit the government-held Qusour district, killing 14 civilians and wounding 32, on...
f(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Happiness voluntary team in coordiantion with the Civil Defense Directorate in opposition-held areas in central Homs province has organized the first children's Olympic Games The event that entitled ‘Birds of Peace for Sports and Culture’ was held between 13-22...
At least 10 members of a small militant faction linked to Daesh (ISIS) were killed Monday by suspected Israeli airstrikes in southern Syria, an activist group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit the town of Sahm al-Jolan in the west of Daraa...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 ISIS militants killed on Monday when unknown warplanes hit their stronghold in Yarmouk Basin in southern Daraa province as fighting is underway between the Islamic State affiliate and moderate rebels, local activists said. The strikes on Sahm town in the...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Monday it was testing the idea of dividing its News Feed in two, separating commercial posts from personal news in a move that could lead some businesses to increase advertising. The Facebook News Feed, the centerpiece of the world’s...
Israeli police raided a Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem overnight and arrested 51 people accused of violent protests against security forces, authorities said Monday. The 51 Palestinian suspects from Issawiya were arrested for participating in recent “riots and...
More than 1,100 children are suffering from acute malnutrition in the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area outside the Syrian capital, the U.N.’s children’s fund UNICEF said Monday. Based on surveys done in recent months, the body said 1,114 children were suffering from various forms...
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea (Reuters) - Vitalina Bordova received a good morning text message from her husband Sergei, a Russian marine major deployed in Syria. Half an hour later, he was hit by mortar fire that killed him. Since he died on April 18, Bordova has been in dispute with the...
Israel accused Hezbollah on Monday of orchestrating shelling across the Golan Heights frontier in order to stoke Israeli-Syrian fighting, and called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his big-power ally Russia to curb the Lebanese guerrillas. Twice last week, mortar rounds or...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 4 children from the same family were killed when the Russian warplanes struck ISIS-held al-Aridi neighborhood in eastern Deir Ezzor city, local activists said on Monday. The strikes have targeted the remaining four districts under ISIS control including...
A play about Syria’s war, told through one family’s tragedy, made its Lebanon debut on Friday, the closest it will ever get to being staged on home soil, its Syrian director said. “It would be impossible to perform it in Syria. There are red lines, and the censorship that was there...
Fighters with the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia have credited Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan with their victory over Daesh (ISIS) in Raqqa, in apparent response to U.S. criticism of their praise of a man jailed in Turkey for treason. In a video praising Ocalan's "ideological power", the...
Bahrain has temporarily freed a female activist who has accused her government of torture in detention, rights groups said Monday. Ebtisam al-Saegh was released late Sunday as she awaits her trial on "terrorism" charges, the Bahrain Institute for Human Rights said. Two other...
Three Yemeni soldiers and five assailants were killed in an attack on a military base in the southern province of Abyan on Monday, a security source said. A car rigged with explosives carrying five men pulled up to a military base in the district of Mudiya in Abyan, the source told AFP...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday Daesh (ISIS) killed at least 128 people in the Syrian town of al-Qaryatayn in central Homs over a three-week period before the Syrian regime army recaptured it on Saturday. There was no immediate comment from Syrian government...
(Zaman Al Wasl-Special)- The second part of ‘Yellow Box’ documentary, Zaman Al Wasl reveals the production and storage locations, and the types of chemical gases produced which is under the supervision of the Air Force intelligence and the Republican Palace....
