Saudi authorities have arrested 22 people, including a Qatari national, for sowing public dissent, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Wednesday. In a separate statement carried by the state news agency SPA, authorities said they arrested another 24 people for stirring tribal...
Syria's Tahrir al-Sham militant group denied in a statement on social media on Wednesday that its leader had been critically wounded in a Russian air strike and said he was in good health and performing his duties. The Russian Defence Ministry said it had seriously injured Abu Mohamad...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Negotiation committee in northern Homs and southern Hama area said a new ceasefire deal has been reached on Wednesday as the humanitarian corridors will be opened again after two weeks of escalation. Syrian activists have surfaced on social media a copy of the...
The Syrian regime army and allied fighters drove Daesh (ISIS) from their last positions in the central province of Hama on Wednesday after heavy fighting, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor of the war, said Daesh was no longer present...
(Reuters) - Samples from an attack by Syrian forces in March on an opposition-held town tested positive for the banned nerve agent sarin in an examination by the global chemical weapons watchdog, sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The March 30 air strike in the town of Latamneh, in the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 160 forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad killed last September by the Islamic State in Syrian desert, according to Zaman al-Wasl Arabic. The death toll included 28 senior officers who mostly killed in major offensive The last week of September, the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 fleeing people have been killed on Wednesday in Russian airstrikes on eastern Deir Ezzor province, local media group said. Journalist Suhaib Jaber from Furat Post news site said the strikes had targeted civilians were trying to cross the Euphrates River from...
(Reuters) - Ahmed Ali, a 34-year-old teacher, fled the war in Syria two years ago and settled in a quiet Austrian town on the hilly border with the Czech Republic. He was hoping to raise a family there. But voter attitudes towards immigrants have hardened due to concerns about security...
The Action Group For Palestinians of Syria said at least 5233 Palestinian refugees were subjected to physical abuse during the ongoing violence in Syria. The documentation team of AGPS has also revealed that 3594 deaths were recorded, due to bombardment, the siege,...
Turkish jets destroyed weapon depots and hideouts used by PKK terrorists in the Gara region of northern Iraq, the military said on Wednesday. According to a statement issued by the Turkish General Staff, the warplanes carried out airstrikes targeting PKK camps in the Gara region on...
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday while on a trip to Puerto Rico to observe hurricane recovery efforts that the island’s massive debt will have to be wiped out. “They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street and we’re going to have to wipe that out. You’re...
Turkey (Reuters) - A bomb detonated by Kurdish militants killed three soldiers and wounded five more in southeast Turkey near the border with Iran, the Hurriyet news website said on Wednesday. It said the blast occurred in the Yuksekova district of Hakkari province and that a large...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which at least 59 people were killed and more than 500 injured, was the saddest day ever recorded on Twitter, according to Hedonometer, a tool that measures sentiment on social media platforms. The barometer, which measures the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's airstrikes on Tuesday have struck Tahrir al-Sham bastions in northern Idlib province, leaving 12 field commanders dead and its leader Abu Mohammad al-Golani severely injured , Russian Defense ministry and local activists said. The...
Turkey is luring militants away from the jihadist alliance that controls Syria’s northwestern Idlib province as a step toward implementing a deal to reduce violence there, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. Idlib is one of four “de-escalation” zones which foreign...
Israel’s defense minister said on Tuesday President Bashar al-Assad was winning Syria’s civil war and urged the United States to weigh in as Damascus’s Iranian and Hezbollah allies gain ground. Avigdor Lieberman’s comments marked a reversal for Israel, where top officials had from...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday the United States should consider staying in the Iran nuclear deal unless it were proven Tehran that was not abiding by the agreement or that it was not in the U.S. national interest to do so. Though Mattis said he...
Islamic State released a video on Tuesday that it said showed two Russian soldiers captured by its fighters in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor, where Russia has been backing the Syrian military against militants. But the Russian Defence Ministry denied their soldiers had been...
By Azzam Tamimi (Middle East Eye)- For a change, all parties concerned seem to be eager to see Palestinian reconciliation succeed. Each player has its own reasons, of course. Yet, it would not have been possible to come this far so quickly had it not been for the deepening humanitarian...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of Miziara town in northern Lebanon have expelled dozens of Syrian refugees over a crime committed against a 26-year-old girl by Syrian concierge on Sep 22. Local residents staged a sit-in in front of the municipal building and the municipality...
