The publisher of Germany's Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag newspapers has filed a formal complaint at the European Court of Justice about Turkey's detention of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yucel since February, the newspaper reported Saturday. Turkish authorities arrested Yucel in February...

The Lebanese army will not coordinate with the Syrian army to fight against Islamic State in the Lebanese-Syrian border zone, a military source told Reuters on Saturday, rejecting a local media report of direct military cooperation between the two. The source said the Lebanese army had the...

Turkish news agencies say the country has increased its military presence along its southern border against threats from Kurdish militants in war-torn northern Syria. The official Anadolu news agency said Saturday that Turkey dispatched artillery to Kilis province to reinforce units there....

(Eqtsad)- While many Syrian refugees have excelled in learning the Turkish language, which has allowed them to enter the Turkish labor market on a large scale, others face many difficulties resulting in not getting high-paid jobs. The Turkish language requirement is one of the main...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Daraa province has been witnessing rapid acceleration in security chaos, and increased security violations, kidnappings and assassinations, indicating weak grip of the security services in opposition-controlled and absence of a unified security apparatus that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 105 army forces, including 10 officers, killed by the Islamic State in Hama province in a week of the heaviest fighting and shelling for months, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists said. The clashes were accompanied by heavy bombardment, with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by Shi'ite militias launched major offensive near the Jordanian-Syrian border to recapture territory seized last week by U.S.-backed rebels, rebel spokesman said. Saad al-Haj, spokesman for Jaish Osoud al-Sharqiya, key rebel group operating...

From special forces officer to brigade-hopping rebel, Abu Jaafar has seen Syria's uprising from all angles. But after years of setbacks, culminating in cuts to US support, he feels disillusioned. The 31-year-old spent three years in a Syrian prison and once counted himself among his US...

The heaviest fighting and shelling for months hit Hama province in northern Syria on Friday, a war monitor said, but there were diverging accounts of how the battle started. The clashes were accompanied by heavy bombardment, with dozens of shells and rockets being fired, said the...

About 2,000 Islamic State fighters are estimated to remain in the Syrian city of Raqqa, fighting for their survival in the face of an offensive by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. Brett McGurk, U.S. special envoy for the coalition against...

( Eqtsad )- Abu Hassan, a janitor in the city of Douma northeast of the capital, was unable to escape the job opportunity he had found in the local council's municipal services office a year ago.  “Due to the blockade enforced by regime on Douma and the difficult economic...

 (Zaman Al Wasl TV)- 'Necessity is the mother of invention' especially when your are besieged by your national army for over 6 years. The necessity pushed people of Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus to invent many ways to survive even if the last couple of months finds some life clues...

Influential Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday called on the Baghdad government to dismantle the paramilitary Hashed al-Shaabi umbrella organisation dominated by Iran-backed Shiite militias. Sadr was speaking to thousands of supporters in the Iraqi capital after a rare visit at...

Venezuela former foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez Friday was elected President of the "Constituent Assembly,” a new legislative body with supreme powers packed with supporters of President Nicolas Maduro. The assembly of 500-plus members, which is tasked with rewriting the crisis-wracked...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 172 troops killed in Syrian desert by the Islamic State and U.S.-backed forces since last week, pro-regime news outlets said amid mounting anger among pro-regime areas. The Syrian Soldier, pro-regime Facebook page with wide network of sources, said more...

The State Department has approved the sale of US warplanes to Nigeria to aid its fight against Boko Haram militants, ending a suspension of weapons sales that followed a deadly Nigerian military strike on a refugee camp. The State Department informed Congress late Wednesday it had approved...

( The New York Times )- A South African tourist who was abducted nearly six years ago from an inn in Timbuktu, Mali, by the North African branch of Al Qaeda has been freed, officials said on Thursday. The tourist, Stephen Malcolm McGown, 42, was the last of the “Timbuktu Three,” who were...

Israeli police will conduct an "examination" into the fatal shooting of two Jordanian nationals by an embassy guard that led to ties between the two states worsening, officials said on Friday. On July 23, a security guard for the Israeli embassy in Amman shot dead a Jordanian worker who had...

A blast hit worshippers leaving a mosque in the east Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, apparently targeting a key tribal ally of eastern based commander Khalifa Haftar for a second time, security and medical officials said. The explosion wounded at least seven people, a medical official...

Yemeni troops and armor have pushed Al-Qaeda militants out of main cities in Shabwa, residents said on Friday, regaining government control over the southern province for the first time in years. They said Al-Qaeda militants withdrew to the mountains without a fight as armored vehicles from...