(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement tortured a man to death n the northern countryside of Aleppo province over claims he was an ISIS fighter, relatives told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Ahrar al-Sham admitted in statement that members of the group had tortured Mohamed al-Ahmed...

Rescue crews raced against rising floodwaters on Sunday to pull hundreds of stranded residents from their homes in southeast Texas as Harvey, the most powerful storm to hit the state in more than 50 years, roared inland. The storm has killed at least two people and Harris County Sheriff Ed...

Proposed tighter U.S. sanctions on Hezbollah have been altered enough to allay fears of major damage to Lebanon's economy, a sign Washington is taking concerns about Lebanese stability seriously, banking and political sources said. But banking figures told Reuters Lebanese authorities should...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Om Nader, a Syrian refugee woman with a family of ten, two of them with intellectual disability, tells to Zaman TV about her suffering story and how the family was expelled from Jordan to live later in a makeshift refugee camp in Bariqa village south of Quneitra, at the...

A ceasefire took effect on Sunday in an Islamic State pocket straddling the Syria-Lebanon border, where the jihadists have been fighting the Lebanese army on one front and Hezbollah with the regime army on the other. The Lebanese army announced that a ceasefire in its own offensive took...

Iraqi forces raised the national flag on Saturday in the heart of Tal Afar, Islamic State’s stronghold in the country’s northwest, and said they were poised to take full control of the city after a week-long offensive. Tal Afar is the latest objective in the U.S.-backed war on the...

 Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti met Libyan mayors on Saturday to renew a commitment to fight people trafficking as part of an agreement signed earlier this year between Rome and Tripoli. The meeting, which Libya's interior minister also attended, focused on fostering...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman for the opposition's High  Negotiations  Committee  Dr. Monzer Makhous confirmed the Syrian opposition no longer owns a national Syrian decision in view of all this international and regional interference in the Syrian...

France will help reconstruction and reconciliation efforts in Iraq as it emerges from the war against Islamic State, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday after talks with Iraqi officials in Baghdad. France is a main partner in the U.S.-led coalition helping Baghdad...

 Turkey's main opposition leader warned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday that the whole country has a "thirst for justice," opening an unprecedented four-day meeting protesting alleged violations under his rule. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secular Republican People's Party...

Her bruised eyes still swollen shut, Buthaina Muhammad Mansour, believed to be four or five, doesn't yet know that her parents, five siblings and uncle were killed when an air strike flattened their home in Yemen's capital. Despite concussion and skull fractures, doctors think Buthaina will...

Venezuela kicked off two days of military drills on Saturday in response to US President Donald Trump's threat of military action and newly announced sanctions on the crisis-stricken nation. War planes, tanks and 200,000 troops of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) deployed along...

British Airways (BA) has called on UK border authorities to address “serious inefficiencies” causing long delays at airport immigration controls ahead of Britain’s exit from the European Union. BA said difficulties processing passengers after a new electronic gate system was introduced last...

( The Guaridan )- US ambassador Nikki Haley sharply criticised the UN peacekeeping commander in Lebanon on Friday, saying he is “blind” to the spread of illegal arms and reiterating a call for the force to do more about it. He says there is no evidence it is actually happening. With the...

Ousmane Dembele's transfer to Barcelona in a deal worth up to 147 million euros ($175 million), making him the world's second most expensive player after Neymar, is the latest dizzying move fuelled by TV money and Gulf-based club owners. The deal agreed Friday to bring 20-year-old French...

Syrian Kurdish authorities on Saturday began laying the groundwork for the first local elections in the federal system they are establishing in the country's north, an official told AFP. Hadiya Youssef, co-chair of the federal system's constituent assembly, said three rounds of elections...

China's commerce ministry has banned North Korean nationals from setting up new businesses in the country, enforcing recent UN sanctions as Washington urges Beijing to do more to curb its ally's nuclear ambitions. The ban, effective immediately, came as Pyongyang launched three short-range...

( The Wall Street Journal )- Before launching the battle to capture Islamic State’s de facto capital, the U.S.-led military coalition dropped leaflets calling on extremists to surrender. On the ground, militants were going door to door, demanding that residents pay their utility bills....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  U.S.-led Coalition airstrikes killed t hree shepherds on Friday in the southern countryside of Hasaka, medics told Zaman al-Wasl.   The U.S. strikes targeted sheep herds in an ISIS held territory near Markada, the last ISIS stronghold in the southern...

 Iraqi forces are about to take full control of Tal Afar, Daesh (ISIS)'s stronghold in northwestern Iraq, in a swift campaign against the outnumbered, exhausted militants, an Iraqi military spokesman said Saturday. The quick collapse of Daesh in Tal Afar, a breeding ground for extremist...