(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel factions operating in southern Syria, in statement issued Saturday, said it will retaliate against regime violations for the de-escalation agreement in Daraa province. The operation room of al-Bunyan al-Marsous said the regime army had pounded the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of people in opposition-held areas and over 50 cities around the world went to streets on Friday, demonstrating for the freedom of the Syrian people. The solidarity photos and rallies come in response to a social media campaign,  #SyrianDayOfRage,...

Freed Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle accused his kidnappers of murdering his infant daughter and raping his wife during his family's years-long captivity by the Haqqani network, a Taliban-affiliated group operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Boyle leveled the accusations in a terse...

(Reuters) - All Islamic State fighters left in Syria’s Raqqa are expected to leave the city on Saturday night, taking civilians with them as human shields, a local official told Reuters. Omar Alloush, a member of the Raqqa Civil Council, set up to run Raqqa after it is freed from IS,...

Tension flared on Saturday in the ethnically mixed Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmatu after a clash between Kurdish and Shiite Turkmen political parties divided over the independence of the Kurdistan region, security sources said Saturday. A dozen Kurdish families were displaced from the...

ISIS is on the verge of defeat in Syria's Raqqa and the city may finally be cleared of the militants on Saturday or Sunday, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia told Reuters on Saturday. The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS said around 100 of the jihadist group's fighters had surrendered in Raqqa...

Iranians responded with anger and mockery Saturday to the bellicose criticism of their government by U.S. President Donald Trump who threatened to tear up a landmark nuclear deal. Trump's use of the phrase "Arabian Gulf" rather than "Persian Gulf" particularly hit a nerve in a country...

Some 100 fighters from ISIS handed themselves over to US-backed fighters in the northern city of Raqqa Friday as fighting continued with remaining gunmen in a pocket inside the city. Omar Alloush of the Raqqa Civilian Council did not give details how the 100 fighters surrendered but...

Turkish forces recently deployed in Syria's Idlib province have their own strategy and are "not bounded by just resistance or defense," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The troops referred to by the president entered Syria as part of a monitoring mission agreed upon by...

 The World Health Organization said on Friday it had received reports of an attack on medical facilities in eastern Syria that had destroyed a store containing more than 130,000 vaccine doses against measles and polio. If confirmed, the WHO said, the attack would put thousands of...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia’s concrete efforts have succeeded in releasing a regime military pilot from a supposed 12-year imprisonment in Turkey and delivering him to the Syrian regime. After finishing his court papers on Friday, Turkish authorities has deported Colonel Mohammed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have recaptured two villages were seized early Friday by the regime forces near the Jordanian border, local activists said.   The surprise attack on Allajat region along the border with Jordan come despite a two-month-old ceasefire deal that was...

MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s communications regulator is considering whether it could force Telecom Italia (TIM) (TLIT.MI) to put its fixed-line network into a separate company to address competition concerns, three sources close to the matter said. Such a move would result in the network...

(Reuters) - Turkey’s military has begun setting up observation posts in northwest Syria’s Idlib province, its General Staff said on Friday, part of a deployment that appears partly aimed at containing a Kurdish militia. Turkey sent a convoy of about 30 military vehicles into rebel-held...

(New York Times)— Ali Shehadeh, a seed hunter, opened the folders with the greatest of care. Inside each was a carefully dried and pressed seed pod: a sweet clover from Egypt, a wild wheat found only in northern Syria, an ancient variety of bread wheat. He had thousands of these folders stacked...

Kurdish authorities have sent thousands more troops to the oil region of Kirkuk to confront "threats" from Iraq's central government, the vice president of the autonomous Kurdistan region said Friday. Tens of thousands of Kurdish soldiers were already stationed there and another 6,000...

Russia and Saudi Arabia are on track to sign a contract on supplies of Russia's advanced S-400 air defense missiles to Riyadh, the Interfax news agency cited an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying Friday. "The talks are ongoing now, the terms are being agreed," the agency...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have conducted more than 10 raids on ISIS-held areas in southern Damascus suburbs, local reporter said on Friday. The surprise aerial attack on al-Hajar al-Aswad neighborhood come after two years of calm amid reports of evacuation deal...

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday its CEO and Vice Chairman Kwon Oh-hyun had decided to step down from management, as it forecast record third-quarter profits on the back of soaring memory chip prices. The surprise resignation comes as Kwon was expected to take...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar steadied in early Asian trading on Friday, on track for weekly losses as investors awaited U.S. inflation data to gauge the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will stick to its plan to raise interest rates again this year. The Singapore dollar SGD= slipped...