Assad regime has taken an additional step in restricting and piling up its already restricted press by ordering Prime Minister Imad Khamis to the Minister of Justice Hisham al-Shaar asking for a detailed memorandum on the issues related to state. According to an official letter,...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Tuesday to work to convince climate change "doubters" as the world waits to see whether U.S. President Donald Trump will endorse the Paris agreement. "Protecting the climate matters to all of us," said Merkel, whose country will host a G20 summit and...

U.S. President Donald Trump called on Israelis and Palestinians to make compromises that could lead to peace as he wrapped up a visit with a speech in occupied Jerusalem Tuesday. "Making peace however will not be easy," Trump told an audience of Israeli politicians and other dignitaries at...

 ISIS claimed responsibility for Monday's deadly attack at the Manchester Arena and said it was carried out with an explosive device planted at the concert, according to a statement the group posted on Telegram. "One of the soldiers of the Caliphate was able to place an explosive device...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said Tuesday police and security services knew the identity of a suspected suicide bomber who killed 22 people, many of them children, at a concert in Manchester. May, speaking outside her 10 Downing Street official residence, said the authorities were not...

The French government has given instructions to organizers of sporting and cultural events in the country on security measures after the Manchester attack, French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said. "We have given a certain number of instructions to the organizers of sporting and cultural...

At least 10 Afghan soldiers were killed when militants attacked their army base in the southern province of Kandahar, the defense ministry said Tuesday, in the latest attack on Western-backed forces. The assault in Shah Wali Kot district late Monday came just a day after 20 Afghan policemen...

U.S. President Donald Trump extended his condolences Tuesday to the victims of the Manchester suicide bombing that killed 22 people and said those behind the attack were "evil losers". Trump, speaking after talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the town of Bethlehem in the...

The leaders of Europe sent Britain offers of support and sympathy following the suicide bombing of a pop concert in Manchester overnight that killed 22 people, including children. Emmanuel Macron, newly elected president of France which has been hard hit by Islamist attacks in recent years,...

Iran condemned a suicide attack at a pop concert in Manchester that killed 22 people, but in an apparent swipe at Western security cooperation with Gulf Arab states said "artificial alliances" would not eliminate such threats. "Terrorism will be uprooted only by taking comprehensive...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaish al-Naser mourned Lieutenant Alaa Rahmoun on Tuesday, saying he had been killed by unknown assailants in Kafr Batteekh village in northern Idlib province.  No further details revealed by the moderate rebel group that operates in Idlib and Hama provinces.

At least 22 people, including some children, were killed and 59 wounded when a suicide bomber struck as thousands of fans streamed out of a concert by U.S. singer Ariana Grande in the English city of Manchester on Monday. Prime Minister Theresa May said the incident was being treated as a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian displaced should get three security approvals to get back to their home in regime-held areas of Homs amid fear of arrest as a leaked document showed. In the central city of Homs- once named the capital of the revolt against Bashar Assad, you have to get security permits...

Iran welcomes cooperation at all levels to bring stability to the Middle East, President Hassan Rouhani told his French counterpart on Monday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump lambasted Tehran again as he tours the region. In a telephone call, Rouhani told France's new president...

OPEC heavyweights Saudi Arabia and Iraq agreed on Monday on the need to extend a global cut in oil supply by nine months in an effort to prop up crude prices, removing a potential stumbling block as producing countries prepare to meet this week. Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said he...

For the first time, all parties to Syria's conflict - including the divided opposition - have agreed to take part in expert talks to help lay the foundation for a new Constitution, the U.N. special envoy for the country said Monday. Staffan de Mistura told the Security Council in a video...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 people, including 7 ISIS fighters, have been killed on Monday in regime airstrikes on the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, activists said. Activist Ahmed Ramadan from Furat Post said the strikes hit the neighborhood of al-Aridi, leaving 30 more people wounded. 15...

A German court Monday put on trial for war crimes a suspected former Syrian rebel commander accused of having tortured civilians while fighting for a militia linked to the Free Syrian Army. The man, identified only as 42-year-old Ibrahim Al F., was arrested in April 2016 and faces life in...

Jordan said Monday it has hit the limit of its ability to host Syrian refugees as Washington's United Nations envoy Nikki Haley visited on her first overseas trip. "Jordan has reached the limit of its capacity to cope with the burden of hosting Syrian refugees," Planning Minister Imad...

 Germany and France pledged Monday to seek ways to strengthen the 19-nation eurozone, with harmonizing corporate taxes among the possible measures they will mull over in the coming weeks. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and new French counterpart Bruno Le Maire said they are...