(Zaman Al Wasl)- The number of Democratic Union Party (PYD) militia members, the main fighting component in the Syrian Democratic Forces killed have increased in recent weeks with the during the intensification of the fighting with the Islamic State forces inside al-Raqqah.  Tens...

( The Guardian )- European and African ministers are to meet in Tunis on Monday to discuss a plan to try to regularise the flow of refugees from Africa to Europe to about 20,000, coupled with a much tougher strategy to deport illegal migrants from Italy and break up smuggling rings. The plan...

Hezbollah said its forces seized a strategic valley from Sunni Muslim militants on Monday, the latest advance in an offensive to oust jihadists from their last foothold along the Syria-Lebanon border. The Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah said it had advanced from several directions in the Wadi...

Congressional investigators probing Russia's meddling in the U.S. election will have their first opportunity this week to hear from someone in President Donald Trump's innermost circle: son-in-law Jared Kushner. Kushner will talk to staff on the Senate Intelligence Committee Monday behind...

Israel struck a position of Islamist group Hamas in Gaza on Monday, the army said, hours after a missile was fired across the border from the Palestinian enclave. "An (Israeli) tank targeted a post belonging to the Hamas terror organisation in the southern Gaza Strip" in the early hours of...

A top aide to US President Donald Trump was due in Israel Monday in a bid to ease tensions over new security measures at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site, a US official said. "President Trump's special representative for international negotiations Jason Greenblatt departed for Israel...

At least 24 people have been killed and 42 wounded after a Taliban car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in western Kabul Monday, officials said, the latest attack to strike the Afghan capital. "The car bomb hit a bus carrying employees of the ministry of mines during rush...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A former Al-Qaeda affiliate took control of the northern city of Idlib on Sunday two days after agreeing to end fighting with moderate Ahrar al-Sham Islamist group, a monitor said. "Ahrar al-Sham withdrew from the city of Idlib which is now under the control of...

A German teenager who joined Daesh (ISIS) is now being held in detention in Iraq and says she regrets joining the extremist group and just wants to come home to her family, media reported on Sunday. Der Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday that four German women who joined Daesh in recent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 32 regime troops and allied militants have been killed in the last four days in clashes with the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Hama province, medics and activists told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. 10 soldiers and Brigadier General were killed on Sunday...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hezbollah fighters captured more territory from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in fierce fighting in Arsal outskirts Sunday, the third day of an offensive that looks set to clear the area of militants, according the Lebanese Daily Star. The regime-backed attack to drive al...

The new US special envoy on Ukraine said Sunday that Russia is responsible for the "hot war" in the country's east, after fresh clashes between government forces and Russian-backed rebels. Kurt Volker, who was appointed this month as the State Department's special representative for...

( The Guardian )- At least one person was killed on Sunday in a shooting incident at the Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman, a Jordanian security source said. The source declined to give any details as police sealed off the heavily protected embassy in an affluent part of the...

The US-led coalition will have "a great deal more" to do in Syria even after defeating the Islamic State in its northern Raqa bastion, a deputy commander of the coalition said Sunday. "Daesh is not defeated with the liberation of Raqa. The defeat of Daesh was not completed with the...

Germany needs to take action now to prevent a re-run of 2015, when some 890,000 migrants arrived in the country, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Social Democrat challenger for a September election told Reuters on Sunday. In September 2015, Merkel threw open Germany's borders to thousands of...

The US Congress is poised to approve tough new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea this week after reaching a compromise deal, which the White House indicated Sunday it could support. In mid-June, the Senate overwhelmingly passed tough sanctions on Moscow and Tehran, but the text...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has deployed troops in southern Daraa province on Sunday due to the cessation of hostilities agreement which brokered by Moscow and Washington two weeks ago, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Salam Mohamed said the Russian military police spread at the...

Two years on from sleeping rough in Budapest on a perilous trek from Syria to Germany, teenage refugee Yusra Mardini is back in the Hungarian capital competing in the world swimming championships. "I promised myself I'd come back to Budapest another way," the 19-year-old told reporters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Saraya Ahl al-Sham has reached a deal with Hezbollah militia and the regime army to halt fighting in Juroud Arsal at the Syrian-Lebanese border, spokesman of the group told Zaman al-Wasl. The cessation of fighting began at early Sunday as the warring parties agreed that...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Well-informed military sources provided Zaman al-Wasl with more information the Iranian long-range missile facility in Hell Valley, or Wadi Jehanam in Tartus province which also host several secret military projects. The new information came as part of a response...