(Zaman Al Wasl)-  U.S.-led coalition air strikes have killed 15 civilians early Monday in eastern countryside of Raqqa province in support for allied Kurdish militias, local monitoring group said. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said the strikes had targeted the town of Kdairan...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led Syrian Democratic Forces clashed Sunday with ISIS near al-Shaddadi town in Hasaka province, forcing hundreds of families to flee the battleground. The ongoing fight is over Markada town, the radical group's last footstep in the Kurdish-dominated province, local...

By Shams el-Din Matoun (Eqtsad) For young Syrians in Germany finding a suitable life partner is a pressing challenge. At first glance, Syrian social customs and traditions appear to play a role in this challenge, and impacting on young people’s dreams even in countries of asylum. However,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State and powerful Jaish al-Islam group have made a prisoner exchange on Sunday in the southern districts of Damascus, local reporter said. ISIS has freed Abu Firas al-Shami, senior commander in Jaish al-Islam, and one civilian from Yarmouk Camp while Islam Army has...

The chief of NATO says he's in touch with both Germany and Turkey regarding their latest dispute over visiting rights to a Turkish air base where German soldiers are stationed. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told German daily newspaper Bild on Sunday he's focused on finding a solution...

A young demonstrator has died from a gunshot wound to the chest, raising to 48 the number of people killed in seven weeks of protests against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, officials said Sunday. The attorney general's office said gunmen were alleged to have opened fire Saturday on an...

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet unions on Tuesday to discuss labour reform, his office said on Sunday. Macron had said during the presidential election campaign that he intended to use executive decrees as soon as this summer to reform labour laws in a country where unemployment...

Syria's government announced Sunday the country's third largest city Homs- once named the capital of the revolt against President Bashar Assad- had been cleared of armed opposition for the first time in more than five years. The announcement follows the completion of the evacuation of the last...

Israel expressed muted concern on Sunday to a major arms deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia announced a day earlier during the visit to the region by U.S. President Donald Trump. The central achievement of Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia was nearly $110 billion in deals sealed on...

The head of the United Nations refugee agency on Sunday urged Libyan authorities to free all asylum seekers and refugees from its detention centers as he visited Tripoli. "I hope first of all that asylum seekers and refugees can be taken out of detention centers," UN High Commissioner for...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Sunday accused regional rival Shiite Iran of exporting extremist Islamic movements to the world and vowed to eliminate the Islamic State group. "The Iranian regime has been the spearhead of global terrorism since the (Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini revolution" in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 Ahrar al-Sham fighters have been killed and 30 more wounded in a suicide attack targeted the group meeting in northern dlib province, the military spokesman told Zaman al-Wasl Sunday. The suicde bomber who was riding a mortorbike, blew himself up in the group's...

US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka said Sunday that ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia has made "encouraging" progress in empowering women but more freedom is needed. "Saudi Arabia's progress, especially in recent years, is very encouraging," Trump's eldest daughter told a group of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Saraya Ahl al-Sham assured that no evacuation deal reached with Syrian regime and Hezbollah militia to leave a border territory with Lebanon, spokesman told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Hussein Abu Ali, spokesman for the moderate rebel group, has refuted reports streamed by...

Syria opposition activists say a suicide attack in rebel-controlled Idlib province killed at least five members of a powerful ultraconservative insurgent group. It was not clear who was behind the Sunday attack. Northern Idlib is an opposition stronghold, but an al-Qaida-linked group has the...

U.S. President Donald Trump will call on Arab leaders to confront "Islamist extremism" during a speech on Sunday in which he will portray fighting terrorism as a battle between good and evil rather than a clash of civilizations. "This is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to...

Tunisian protesters demanding jobs have closed down a second oil pumping station in the south in defiance of government attempts to protect oil and gasfields with troops and negotiate an end to unrest, two local radios reported on Sunday. Protesters peacefully shut a pumping station at...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will discuss peace efforts with U.S. President Donald Trump when he visits this week, while the Israeli cabinet considered economic gestures toward the Palestinians. Trump landed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for his first foreign tour...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 2700 Syrian rebels started leaving the last opposition-held district of Homs city Saturday in the final phase of an evacuation deal that will see Bashar Assad's regime take back the area in the seventh year of the country's war. On Sunday, about 60 buses loaded with 1262...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The town of Qamhana in northwestern Hama province has entered a new stage of "honoring" regime killed fighters. This time the regime does not honor its salin fighters by giving his family a goat or a can of beans or even a clock, but the regime went far as to address its...