(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Islamic State fighters on Thursday have renewed the attack on regime forces and allied militias in the northwestern Hama province, killing 20 people, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The attack took place 11 miles (17 km) east of al-Salamiya, the strategic town ...

Reporting by Mohamed Omar Sharif (Zaman Al Wasl)- Saja, a Syrian girl from Daraa suffers of Albinism, that characterised with white skin, hair, eyebrows and lashes, and severe sensitivity to sun light. She left her hometown of Daraa 3 years ago and walk in the sun for 4 days to reach to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Kurdish PYDmilitia has turned most of the grain silos in Hasaka province into military barracks for its numerous militias or camps to train hundreds of people for money. A local source told Zaman al-Wasl that the PYD militants had turned grain silos in the Alia and...

Michael Flynn and other advisers to Donald Trump’s campaign were in contact with Russian officials and others with Kremlin ties in at least 18 calls and emails during the last seven months of the 2016 presidential race, current and former U.S. officials familiar with the exchanges told Reuters....

France and Germany are resisting a plan by U.S. officials for NATO to take a bigger role in the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, in line with calls from President Donald Trump for the alliance to do more to combat terrorism. Many alliance members hope the plan will be announced...

A top-flight football game in Sweden has been postponed after a player was offered a large sum of money to help fix the result of the match, Sweden's Football Association said on Thursday. The game between IFK Gothenburg and AIK, two of Sweden's biggest clubs, was set to be played later on...

Turkey's foreign minister says his country won't beg Germany to stay at the Incirlik airbase. Mevlut Cavusoglu told private NTV that Turkey opened up the airbase to Germany as part of the international coalition's operations against ISIS. "If they want to leave, that's up to them and we...

 French President Emmanuel Macron's new centrist party has stretched its lead in the polls ahead of parliamentary elections next month, new survey data showed Thursday, adding to the positive momentum for the 39-year-old leader. A survey from the Harris Interactive group showed that 32...

The United Nations said on Thursday up to 200,000 more people could flee Mosul as fighting intensifies between Iraqi forces and ISIS militants in the city. "As military operations intensify and move closer to Mosul’s Old City area, we expect that up to 200,000 more people will flee," Lise...

The European Commission on Thursday fined U.S. social media giant Facebook 110 million euros ($120 million) for providing incorrect and misleading information on its takeover of WhatsApp. "Today's decision sends a clear signal to companies that they must comply with all aspects of EU merger...

China has urged Windows users to protect themselves against a new ransomware virus similar to the WannaCry bug that wreaked havoc worldwide last week. "UIWIX" encrypts and renames files through a bug in the Windows operating system, China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center...

Iran criticized new U.S. sanctions on its missile program on Thursday, saying they would undermine the nuclear deal with world powers. "Iran condemns the U.S. administration's ill will in its effort to reduce the positive results of the country's implementation of JCPOA (nuclear deal)...

The Trump administration took a key step Wednesday toward preserving the Obama-era nuclear deal with Iran, coupling the move with fresh ballistic missile sanctions to show it isn't going light on the Islamic republic. The State Department said Iran would continue to enjoy relief from...

President Tayyip Erdogan told U.S. President Donald Trump during his visit to Washington this week that Turkey would act "without asking anyone" if it faced any sort of attack from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, Turkish media reported on Thursday. Trump's approval, before the visit, of...

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Wednesday she will visit Turkey and Jordan from May 19-25 to see how Syrian refugees "are coping, day in and day out," to see U.N. humanitarian work and highlight the U.S. aid response. It will be the first overseas trip by Haley, a...

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have seized 350 square km (135 square miles) in the past week, tightening "their noose" on Islamic State in an advance to isolate its base of operations at Raqqa, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition said on Wednesday. Some 3,000 to 4,000...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces arrested Wednesday about 1100 people were fleeing Qaboun, north of Damascus despite an agreement to evacuate the opposition-held district reached Sunday. Regime-run TV quoted the Damascus provincial governor as saying that Qaboun "is...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl publishes names of the military pilots who operate in Shayrat airfield east of the central city of Homs, the military base that stood behind the deadly Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack on April 4. Zaman al-Wasl, also, is publishing names of T-4 and...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday will interview four candidates for the position of director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters. Spicer, who was aboard Air Force One with Trump, said the president would meet with acting FBI...

Standing outside the UN's headquarters in Geneva, Amina Kholani chokes back tears as she relives the nightmare of visiting relatives in Saydnaya, one of Syria's most notorious prisons. The infamous centre was back in the spotlight this week after US claims that Damascus built a crematorium...