Around 30 Muslim leaders from across Europe gathered Sunday for a rally against terror in Berlin at the site of a deadly truck attack in December, claimed by Daesh. The event, which attracted a few hundred participants, was part of a "March of Muslims Against Terrorism" by imams, who set off...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tahrir al-Sham Islamist alliance on Sunday has arrested four ISIS commander in northern Idlib province said they stood behind a series of suicide bombings that rocked the stronghold of former al Qaeda group, local reporter said. Abu Sulaiman al-Russi, the ISIS security...

Egyptian and Palestinian leaders have met amid signs of a rapprochement between Cairo and the Islamic militant Hamas group that could shake up Gaza's political landscape and sideline the Palestinian president. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Egypt's Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi met Sunday....

President Donald Trump said Sunday that “it is time to move forward in working constructively with Russia” after his lengthy meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Germany. But he is still avoiding the question of whether he accepts Putin’s denial that Russia was responsible for...

( The Guardian )- One in 40. This is the dreadful death rate facing refugees attempting the perilous crossing from Libya to Italy in overloaded rubber dinghies. It has trebled since late 2015, when European search and rescue efforts in the central Mediterranean were much more concerted and...

Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday denied reports of a "breakthrough" in talks with Hamas over returning Israeli citizens and bodies of soldiers held in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. According to Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, Israel and Hamas were on the brink of an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad killed early Sunday in surprise attack conducted by Ahrar al-Sham movement on Harbanfseh town in central Homs province, local reporter said. The elite forces of the powel islamist group carried out a surpite attack on al...

 Germany began on Sunday to pull its troops out of a Turkish air base where they have supported international operations against Daesh (ISIS) following a row with Ankara over access, a German defence ministry spokesman said. The withdrawal from the Incirlik base, approved by the German...

Islamic State militants threw themselves into the Tigris on Sunday, trying to flee the battlefield in Mosul as Iraqi forces reached the riverbank, bringing them to the verge of victory. After eight months of combat that has left parts of the city in ruins, killed thousands of civilians and...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the US appears less rigid regarding Syria under new President Donald Trump, as a ceasefire comes into force in the southern province of Daraa. Putin who met Trump at the G20 summit in Germany said the two countries have found common ground...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Tahrir al-Sham Islamist alliance on Sunday said it had arrested top ISIS commander in northern Idlib province after a series of ISIS blasts that rocked the stronghold of former al Qaeda group, local reporter said. Abu Sulaiman al-Russi, the ISIS security principal in...

Reporting by Abdulsalam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl) The Free Aleppo University granted final year students from Syrian universities, who were prevented from undergoing their final exams due to the circumstances in Syria, the chance to complete their subjects. The University would then...

(The Daily Mail)- Their country has been engulfed in a catastrophic civil war for years, but an element of normality can be see on Syria's west coast. Pictures taken yesterday show Syrians paddling in the sea in Wadi Qandil, which is north of the seaside city of Latakia. The government...

Iraqi commanders said Saturday their forces are "tens of meters" away from defeating Daesh (ISIS) in Mosul, a day after a major counterattack by the militants. The Joint Operations Command "our units are still continuing to advance ... Not much is left before our forces reach the...

Two Egyptian policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast late Saturday in the restive Sinai Peninsula, according to the country's interior ministry. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said the device struck a police convoy in the North Sinai city of Arish. Nine riot...

A U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire deal for southwestern Syria took effect at noon (0900 GMT) on Sunday, the latest international attempt at peacemaking in the six-year war. The United States, Russia and Jordan reached a ceasefire and "de-escalation agreement" this week with the aim of...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Difficult days ahead, sedition, causing unrest and strike, and circulating rumors are the main terms, among others, which Syrians are using to describe their situation and that of their 3 million co-nationals inside Turkey in recent days. The...

Reporting by Khaled Mohamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have reopened all roads leading to the resistance-controlled Eastern Qalamoun, northeastern Damascus, after a blockade for three days due to stalled negotiations brokered by Russia to force residents to sign new...

De-escalation zones in Syria are crucial for Syria's territorial integrity, the Russian president said Saturday on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. Vladimir Putin stressed Turkey’s importance in establishing de-escalation zones in certain areas of Syria’s. "The...

Arab refugees watching anti-G20 riots in Hamburg from the relative safety of a falafel joint said on Saturday the rioters were insane for destroying their tolerant adoptive city and were astonished by what they saw as the police's restraint. "If people did this in Egypt they would be shot,"...