(Zaman Al Wasl)- On August 1st 2012, Syrian regime forces supported by its thugs stormed Jdeidet al-Fadel neighborhood in Damascus suburb and and the first statistics of the number of martyrs of civilians exceeded 500 between a child and an old women. The inhabitants of the small...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed at least 50 civilians on Wednesday in Raqqa city, half of which is still held by ISIS, activists and local monitoring group said.  Most of the casualties fell in Albusrarya neighborhood after deadly aerial bombing by the...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped an Israeli lawmaker from taking on a Jordanian counterpart in a fist-fight on Wednesday over a diplomatic crisis between the two neighbors. The July 23 shooting to death of two Jordanian nationals by an Israeli embassy guard who said he was acting in...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian refugees who is preparing themselves to leave Arsal camps to northern Idlib province have offered their refrigerators, washing machines, tent brushes, birds of all kinds and cars for sale in what they call 'Idlib Market'. Abu Abdo...

Syrian refugees stranded in Greece chanted "no more waiting!" and protested outside the German embassy in Athens on Wednesday against delays in reuniting with their relatives in Germany. About 100 people, among them young children, marched from parliament to the embassy holding up cardboard...

Any Russian private citizens fighting with pro-government forces in Syria are volunteers and the Russian Defense Ministry has nothing to do with them, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. Based on accounts from families and friends of the dead...

Neymar has arrived at Barcelona's training grounds amid widespread rumors that the Brazil striker could make a record-breaking move to Paris Saint-Germain. Neymar drove into Barcelona's training center in Sant Joan Despi on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. local time, a...

An Israeli lawmaker has been forced to call off a “non-violent” faceoff with a Jordanian challenger after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office ordered him to stand down. The showdown between Jordanian lawmaker Yehiya al-Saoud and Likud party politician Oren Hazan was due on Wednesday...

Venezuela's opposition has decided to push back by one day to Thursday its planned march against the new assembly which will run the country indefinitely. The demonstration, earlier set for Wednesday "will be Thursday, the day the dictatorship plans to install the fraudulent" assembly, set...

Ten Russian servicemen have been killed fighting in Syria so far this year, according to statements from the Defence Ministry. But based on accounts from families and friends of the dead and local officials, Reuters estimates the actual death toll among Russian soldiers and private...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Abusing Syrian refugees photos which circulated by the Turkish social media have put the reputation of the country and its authorities at a new test, particularly with regard to the border guards treatment of Syrians crossing into Turkish territory. The photographs,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad has recalled Talal Tlass, retired military officer to lead again his former post as Deputy Minister of Defense, sources said. The move come over Russian recommendation, according to Zaman al-Wasl sources, as Assad’s key ally seeks...

( The New York Times )- Contaminated vaccines in a rural village in South Sudan killed 15 children last month and endangered dozens more, according to a statement from the World Health Organization, Unicef and the health ministry of South Sudan. In the remote village of Nachodokopele in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local council of Ein Tarma said the town is a stricken as regime forces wage fierce ground and aerial campaign killed and wounded 140 people since a ceasefire reached last week. The council said 40 civilians have been killed and 100 more wounded since Russia brokered a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime arrested several women on their way back from Idlib to their town in Madaya, in the countryside of Damascus, local activists reported. Media activist Abdul Wahab Ahmad said that elements from the Fourth Division, an elite force led by Maher al-Assad,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese Red Cross delivered 4 bodies for Saraya Ahl al-Sham group were killed in fighting with Hezbollah due to a ceasefire reached last week at the Syrian-Lebanon border, spokesman told Zaman al-Wasl on Tuesday. Omar al-Sheikh said one of the bodies belongs to a...

The transfer of thousands of Syrian militants and refugees from a Lebanese border region into rebel territory in Syria stalled for a second day on Tuesday because Beirut rejected demands made by the militants, a Lebanese official told Reuters. A security source said those demands included...

 The United States does not seek to topple the government of North Korea and would like to have a dialogue with Pyongyang at some point, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. "We do not seek a regime change, we do not seek a collapse of the regime, we do not seek an...

French and German support for a regional Sahel force to battle jihadists will persuade other European nations of the benefits of backing the regional counter-terror measure, Germany's defence minister said Tuesday. Ursula von Der Leyen spoke to journalists in Bamako after talks with...

The main grouping of the world's Muslim nations Tuesday accused Israel of staging provocative actions and inflaming tensions with the Palestinians in a crisis over security measures at a key holy site in occupied Jerusalem. Turkey hosted an extraordinary meeting in Istanbul of foreign...