(Zaman Al Wasl)- Residents of northern Homs countryside have celebrated the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha without fears of being bombed for the first time in 6 years.   The first time they do Eid Prayers in public not under the ground or in shelter, Abu Karmo from Talbiseh town told...

 Chinese companies signed commitments on Friday to finance and build railways and ports that will help Brazil export iron ore and soybeans, the two main commodities it sells to China, during a state visit by Brazilian President Michel Temer. China Communication Construction Co Ltd...

Around 120,000 displaced people - mostly Rohingya Muslims - in camps in Myanmar’s Rakhine state are not receiving food supplies or healthcare after the U.N. and aid groups suspended operations following government accusations of supporting insurgents. Nearly 400 people have died in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa city killed ta least 12 civilians, including children, on Thursday, local activists said as the Kurdish-led forces press more gains against the Islamic State.   The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces advanced in al-Dereiya and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish Osoud al-Sharqiya, key rebel group fighting regime forces and ISIS in Syrian Badia, said it has freed army pilot was taken captive two weeks after shooting down his jet near Jordan's border. Thirty more regime soldiers have been released in a prisoner swap deal. The...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 local councils of embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs have demanded Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to end its presence in the eastern districts of Damascus after reaching a seacefire deal with regime last month.   The civil society and armed groups in Ghouta...

Bashar al-Assad made a rare public appearance outside Damascus Friday for morning prayers marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, state media reported. Since the start of Syria's devastating conflict in 2011, Assad has only left the capital on a few occasions. This year,...

(Politico)- The leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is likely still alive and hiding somewhere near the Iraq-Syria border, the commander of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militant group said Thursday. Army Lt. Gen. Steve Townsend, asked about the status of the...

(Al Jazeera)- With its rows of identical cottages, country houses and immaculately trimmed lawns, the Oxford countryside is quintessentially English. Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer and his wife Nadia may have spent more than two decades here, but upon entering their house one is catapulted into...

Estimates of the size of a Hurricane Harvey aid package for Texas and Louisiana rose on Thursday, with one proposal being drafted for $150 billion, while the White House promised to make a request for funding soon to Congress. The Trump administration will make a request to the U.S....

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA.AX), the nation’s biggest lender, confirmed the existence of an internal report warning of shortcomings in its monitoring of offshore transactions after media said it had obtained the report. News Corp’s (NWSA.O) Sky News Business said CBA’s...

Travelers and fuel suppliers across the United States braced for higher prices and shortages ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend as the country’s biggest fuel pipelines and refineries curb operations after Hurricane Harvey. Just six days after Harvey slammed into the heart of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian displaced in al-Mabrouka camp have been suffering of  deteriorating living conditions as hundreds of people keep pouring to the northern Hasaka province fleeing ISIS-held territories in Deir Ezzor, local activists said.   About 1000 people reached the...

President Enrique Pena Nieto raised the specter of Venezuela blighting Mexican politics in an interview published on Thursday, likening the early front-runner for next year’s presidential election to the country’s leftist leaders. Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has led initial...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Prices of sacrificial animals in southern Daraa province, which has been liberated this year, have increased mostly due to the smuggling of livestock, high fodder prices and transportation costs. Awad al-Joudi, a sheep farmer in Daraa province said, "the few days...

A convoy of Islamic State fighters began a new attempt to reach territory held by the militant group in eastern Syria on Thursday after being blocked by U.S.-led airstrikes, despite warnings of more military action. More than 300 lightly armed IS fighters and about 300 family members...

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday he had traveled to Damascus to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to request the evacuation of Islamic State fighters from their enclave on the Syria-Lebanon border. The evacuation convoy left the border area late on Monday to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees from al-Hadlat-Ruwaished refugee camp appealed to the human rights and humanitarian organizations to rescue them from a catastrophic situation and the inevitable massacres that may be inflicted upon the camp's refugees following an attack on the camp camp in the...

Civilians caught up in the battle for the Syrian city of Raqqa are paying an “unacceptable price” and attacking forces may be contravening international law with their intense air strikes, the top United Nations human rights official said on Thursday. A U.S.-led coalition is seeking to...

A stalled Islamic State evacuation convoy in eastern Syria will travel north to government-held Sukhna before crossing toward Deir al-Zor region, which is held by the jihadists, a commander in the pro-Syrian government military alliance said. An operation to exchange wounded Islamic...