(Zaman Al Wasl)- Friday Prayers have been suspended in the northern countryside of  Homs as regime forces keep violating a one-week-old truce, according to statement issued by Shariah Court.   The main clergy body in Hola region said fears over worshipers lives make the...

US President Donald Trump doubled down on his warnings to North Korea Thursday, saying his threat to rain "fire and fury" on it maybe "wasn't tough enough." Speaking alongside Vice President Mike Pence, Trump also said China could do "a lot more" to pressure Pyongyang to end its nuclear...

The U.S. military has announced two new airstrikes against Al-Shabab extremists in Somalia, and Somalia's president says the joint operation killed a high-level leader of the group. The U.S. statement says the airstrikes were carried out Thursday near the Banadiir region in southern Somalia....

The Syrian army and its allies seized control of at least 30 km (19 miles) of Syria's border with Jordan from rebels in an attack on Thursday, two rebel groups and a Syrian military source said. A military media unit run by Hezbollah, a close ally of the Syrian government, said the army and...

 U.S.-backed forces now have Islamic State fighters surrounded in central Raqqa, a Syrian Kurdish commander said, but he predicted that driving the militants out could take up to four months. "We've cleared about half of Old Raqqa ... and we're advancing on all axes," said Haval Gabar,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As losses mount, the Islamic State seeks to recruit all young men in Deir al-Zor and the southern Hasaka countryside to fight the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Russian-backed regime forces. Member of Furat Post network Ahmad Ramdan confirmed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Failaq al-Rahman, key rebel group fighting regime forces in Eastern Ghouta, said on Thursday it had ambushed army’s elite forces in Ein Tarma, for the second time in 48 hours, leaving 20 soldiers, spokesman said. The elite forces of Fourth Armoured Division...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out 10 raids on Hola region north of central Homs city, killing one person and wounding dozen, a week since Russia brokered a ceasefire deal and deployed its military police, local reporter said on Thursday. The strikes pounded town...

Spain says around 700 migrants have tried to storm the border crossing between Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta and Morocco, but none managed to make it across. The Interior Ministry's office in Ceuta said the migrants also tried to scale the six-meter-tall barbed-wire fences around...

Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for an attack on a patrol car on Wednesday that killed four Egyptian policemen in North Sinai, the militant group's AMAQ news agency reported on Thursday. Authorities in Arish, the capital of North Sinai province, were on the hunt for gunmen who fired...

An Iranian blogger for an Israeli news site arrived in Israel on Thursday from Turkey where she faced possible deportation back to the Islamic republic, The Times of Israel website reported. The 32-year-old woman, Neda Amin, blogs for the Persian-language edition of The Times of Israel....

A delegation of German lawmakers, accompanied by a senior NATO official, will visit German soldiers serving at an air base in Turkey on Sept. 8, as part of a NATO trip, Turkey's foreign ministry said on Thursday. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said details of the planned visit...

When 55-year-old Sheila Bartels left her doctor's office in Oklahoma, she had a prescription for 510 painkillers. She died the same day of an overdose. Her doctor, Regan Nichols, is now facing five second-degree murder charges -- one for each patient who overdosed after she prescribed...

On a bustling street in northwest Syria, young restaurateur Abdulrahim Abulezz serves up juicy chicken wraps crafted according to a traditional recipe from his hometown Daraya, which he left last year. His restaurant Sultan Daraya sits in a row of shops and eateries run by Syrians who quit...

The director of Yemen's national blood bank says the facility could shut down within a week after a medical aid charity ended its support. Ayman el-Shihari, the blood bank's general director, said Thursday its closure could lead to a "humanitarian catastrophe." He says the facility receives...

Israeli authorities have demolished three homes and sealed off a fourth of Palestinian nationals who carried out attacks that killed a soldier and a policewoman, the Israeli Army said on Thursday. Israel regularly carries out such demolitions, which it says act as a deterrent, but human...

Turkish authorities on Thursday issued detention warrants for 35 people, including nine journalists, on suspicion of links to last July's attempted military coup, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The suspects, including the editor of the opposition Birgun newspaper Burak Ekici,...

After fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for six years, rebel soldier Abu Mohammed laid down his arms as part of a peace deal in his home town of Moadamiya last year. But he has now fled Syria into Turkey. His reason: the Syrian army told him to report for duty and he feared...

By Fris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- With chicken bones soaked with blood and rust c, a number of regime detainees in the Fourth Brigade prison have written the names of their comrades on a piece of old t-shirt cloth. The human rights activist and former detainee, Mansur al-Omari...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- After sharing the difficulties of the siege and its and joining forces on the fronts of fighting nearly three years since the start of the military campaign on Darya, they shared the joy at a wedding party Wednesday evening in Maret Misreen in rural Idlib sposnsored by...