(Eqtsad)- Since the beginning of the Syrian revolution, the Syrian regime has been implicated as in calling killed soldiers and intelligence personnel martyrs, thinking that the crisis is short-term and thus the total of those who will be killed will not be large and that they can serve their...

Saudi Arabia has assured Russia that it supports a gradual process of negotiating local cease-fires and setting up "de-escalation zones" in Syria, Russia's foreign minister said Monday, a day after meeting with Saudi leaders. Russia and Iran, Saudi Arabia's main regional foe, back...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 40 people killed  in Russian and Syrian airstrikes when they were fleeing the violence in Deir Ezzor aboard ferries along the Euphrates River, activists said on Monday. The deadly strikes come as regime army sent massive reinforcements ahead of a final...

Syrian regime army sent massive reinforcements to territory under its control in Deir Ezzor on Monday ahead of a final push for the Islamic State group-held half of the eastern city. The metropolis is the capital of the oil-rich eastern province of Deir Ezzor, regarded as a strategic...

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov urged U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon to stop destroying Russia-U.S. relations and to start finding a way to resolve their problems, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday. “We called for a stop to the destruction of...

The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said on Monday Washington would never allow militants to use the country as a sanctuary, as American and allied troops in Kabul commemorated the Sept. 11 attacks. U.S. President Donald Trump in August committed nearly 4,000 additional troops to...

Militants attacked a security convoy in Egypt’s strife-torn Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 18 policemen in a blast and a gun battle on Monday, sources said - an assault claimed by Islamic State. The attackers detonated an improvised explosive device and managed to destroy three...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Israel's strike on the research center of Sheikh Ghadban near northwestern Masyaf town was devastating and a successful blow by Tel Aviv to the Assad regime and allies since the strikes had destroyed the production lines of Hezbollah short-range missiles,...

Syria didn’t retaliate to the airstrike, which it has attributed to Israel, on a missile-production plant in the west of the country on Thursday. The statement by the Syrian military was carefully crafted and low on detail. The release described the bombed facility, part of the Scientific...

Oil prices edged lower on Monday on concerns that Hurricane Irma’s pounding of heavily populated areas of Florida could dent oil demand in the world’s top oil consuming nation. Losses were capped by weekend talks between Saudi Arabia’s oil minister and counterparts over a possible...

(Marca)- Real Madrid have become accustomed to living without its front three. What Florentino Perez put together has been separated again because of a curse that returns with the injury of Karim Benzema, just before Cristiano Ronaldo, the member of the attack that was missing at the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Asayish Militia, security arm of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) banned on Sunday administrative staff and teachers affiliated to the Education Ministry of the regime from entering schools located in areas under its control with the start of the new school year 2017-2018....

Russia is to send 175 de-mining engineers to defuse mines in Syria’s Deir al-Zor, Interfax news agency quoted Russia’s Defence Ministry as saying on Monday. The first detachment of 40 de-miners has already been deployed to Russia’s Hmeimim air base in Syria, the ministry said....

A prominent Saudi religious leader has been arrested, according to social media postings on Sunday, in what appears to be a crackdown on Islamists seen as critics of the conservative kingdom’s absolute rulers. Sheikh Salman al-Awdah, an influential cleric who was imprisoned from 1994-99...

Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Islamic State fighters after government forces expelled the jihadist group from one of its last remaining strongholds in Iraq, security and aid officials said. Most came from Turkey. Many others were from former...

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would meet U.S. President Donald Trump later this month during a visit to New York, where he will address the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 27. Netanyahu spoke to reporters accompanying him on a trip to Latin...

 Syrian regime forces and U.S.-backed militias converged on Islamic State in separate offensives against the militants in the eastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zor on Sunday. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces alliance of mostly Kurdish and Arab militias (SDF) said it had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes on Sunday struck rebel bastions in the Eastern Qalamoun region  in spite of the newly-reached ceasefire deal, local activists said. The raids targeted al-Bitra region in the eastern mountains of Qalamoun, 60 km (40 miles...

Turks can safely come to Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday, dismissing a warning from Ankara that its citizens should take care when traveling there due to what it said was an increase in anti-Turkish sentiment. Tensions between Berlin and Ankara have been bubbling for...

About 1.1 million homes and businesses have lost power in Florida as Hurricane Irma pummeled the southern part of the state, Florida Power & Light (FPL) said on Sunday. FPL, the biggest power company in Florida, said on its website that over 1,094,000 customers without power....