(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities has released a Syrian pilot who was detained seven months ago after he ejected from his warplane at the Turkish border, pro-regime Masdar News reported on Thursday. Colonel Mohamed Soufan, 55, has been freed by the Turkish 3rd Court in the...

(Reuters) - Children returning to school in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab were handed a new textbook this term: “Türkçe Öğreniyorum” - “I am learning Turkish”. Turkish lessons, Turkish signposts, Turkish-trained police and mostrecently a Turkish post office all point to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State suicide attackers killed at least 50 people in a triple car bomb attack on Thursday among a group of refugees in northeast Syria, a medical source in the Kurdish Red Crescent said.  A large number of people were also injured by the three car bombs set...

A first convoy of the military operation that Turkey is carrying out in Syria's Idlib province crossed into the area late on Thursday, two rebels and a witness said. The convoy included about 30 military vehicles, said Abu Khairo, a commander in a Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebel group...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime and Russia on Thursday have stepped up its aerial campaign on ISIS-held areas in Deir Ezzor province along the Iraqi border, killing 11 people, local media group said.  The attacks targeted the town of Albu Kamal and neighboring villages, leaving...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Army's elite Fourth Armored Division has become the only military unit to control checkpoints in Daraa province which used to be under the intelligence control, sources said. The move gives Maher al-Assad's forces the upper hand in southern Syrian as well it...

(Reuters) - Sally Jones, a British jihadi who recruited online for the Islamic State group, has been killed in Syria by a U.S. drone along with her 12-year-old son, The Sun newspaper reported on Thursday. A convert to Islam from southern England, Jones was nicknamed the “White Widow” by...

(Reuters) - Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah reached a deal over political reconciliation on Thursday after Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of the Gaza enclave the group has controlled for more than a decade. Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh announced the...

A ceasefire deal for a Syrian rebel enclave south of Damascus was reached on Thursday, brokered by Cairo and Moscow, Egyptian state media said. The agreement, which includes the Jaish al-Islam rebel faction, went into effect at midday on Thursday (1000 GMT), Egyptian state television...

 Kurdish peshmerga forces on Thursday blocked roads from Iraqi Kurdistan to the country's second city Mosul in response to Iraqi troop movements, a senior Kurdish military official told AFP. "The two main roads connecting Irbil and Dohuk to Mosul were cut off on Thursday with sand...

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices slipped on Thursday as U.S. fuel inventories rose and despite efforts by OPEC to cut production. Brent crude oil was down 20 cents at $56.74 a barrel by 0730 GMT. U.S. light crude was 25 cents lower at $51.05. Both benchmarks have risen more than 20 percent...

LONDON (Reuters) - Global supply and demand for crude oil will be largely balanced next year, as growth in consumption helps erode a three-year-old overhang of unused fuel and should mostly offset a steep rise in output, the International Energy Agency said on Thursday. In its monthly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six rebel factions led by former al-Qaeda group have launched assault on an ISIS affiliated group in southern Daraa province, field sources said on Thursday. Tahrir al-Sham alliance backed by Ahrar al-Sham and four armed groups is seeking to defeat Jaysh Khaled Ibn...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Minister of Finance has seized the “movable and immovable property” of 11 members of the Ghreiwati family that led the business and finance in Syria for decades.  Zaman al-Wasl reviewed a copy of the decision which was signed on the same day that an order...

ANKARA (Reuters) - A German journalist went on trial for terrorism charges in Turkey on Wednesday, saying she was innocent and demanding her immediate release, in a case that has damaged already sour relations with Berlin. Mesale Tolu was detained in April, accused of being a member of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 35 fleeing people have been killed on Wednesday in Russian airstrikes on eastern Deir Ezzor province, topping death toll of strikes on displaced people to 100, local media group said. Furat Post news site said the strikes had targeted civilians were trying to...

KOBANI, Syria (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters in the Syrian city of Raqqa are expected to fight to the death, but some local militants have surrendered recently as U.S.-backed forces close in on their last strongholds, a U.S. coalition spokesman said on Wednesday. Colonel Ryan Dillon...

(Reuters) - European countries are scrambling to cobble together a package of measures they hope will keep the Iran nuclear deal on track if U.S. President Donald Trump ignores their pleas and decertifies the landmark 2015 agreement this week. The package would include a strong...

(Reuters) - Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy took the first step on Wednesday toward suspending Catalonia’s political autonomy and ruling the region directly to thwart a push for independence. He demanded that the regional government clarify whether it now considered itself...

(Reuters) - Lebanon’s Hezbollah group dismissed multi-million-dollar rewards offered by the United States for the arrest of two of its senior members, saying on Wednesday they would have no impact. Washington has offered up to $7 million for information leading to the detention of Talal...