(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's missile attacks killed at least 7 people, including two women and two children, in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, local rescuing group said Tuesday. Mahmoud Adam, spokesman for the Civil Defense in Damascus sububrs, said the regime...

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces militia has advanced to within four kilometers north and east of ISIS's Syrian bastion Raqqa, a spokesperson and monitor said Tuesday. The advances bring the SDF, a Kurdish-Arab alliance, closer than ever to the extremist group's most important...

China appears to be laying the groundwork for the mass collection of DNA samples from residents of a restive, largely Muslim region that's been under a security crackdown, rights observers and independent experts said Tuesday. Police in western China's Xinjiang region confirmed to The...

North Korea's missile program is progressing faster than expected, South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday, after the UN Security Council demanded the North halt all nuclear and ballistic missile tests and condemned Sunday's test-launch. Han Min-koo told South Korea's parliament the...

( The Guardian )- An RAF drone strike disrupted a public killing being staged by Islamic State in Syria last week, according to the Ministry of Defence. A sentry from Isis was killed by a Hellfire missile fired from a Reaper drone, the MoD said. The MoD issues regular updates of...

 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday the issue of US President Donald Trump allegedly divulging state secrets to Russia is not worth confirming or denying, calling it "nonsense." "For us it is not an issue, it's more nonsense," Peskov said when asked about the Washington Post...

French authorities Tuesday charged a suspected ISIS "scout" believed to have helped a key organizer of the 2015 Paris attacks and the perpetrator of a foiled train attack enter Europe. Prosecutors charged Bilal Chatra, a 21-year-old from Algeria, with complicity in an attempted terrorist...

The Syrian government Tuesday denied U.S. accusations that a crematorium had been built at one of its prisons that could be used to dispose of detainees' remains. A foreign ministry statement published by state news agency SANA said the U.S. administration had come out with "a new Hollywood...

Turkish prosecutors ordered the arrest of 85 staff at the energy and education ministries under a investigation targeting the network of a U.S.-based cleric whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating last July's attempted coup, broadcaster CNN Turk reported Tuesday. No further details were...

  On October 10, 2013, 268 Syrian refugees, including 60 children, were died when their boat capsized 60 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa, according to leaked recordings. (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leaked sound recordings of the disaster of drowning of large boat carrying...

(Eqtsad)- The land between Rastan dam and the river of al-Asi is considered the main agricultural land and the “food basket” for the Northern countryside of Homs, as it supply the local market with more than 75% of vegetables and crops, and it is considered one of the main food source that...

German authorities charged a Syrian man who was arrested last November as he tried to travel to Denmark with planning to build a bomb and detonate it in a crowd in the capital of Copenhagen, public prosecutors said on Monday. The Syrian man came to Germany in 2015 and lived in a refugee...

(Eqtsad)- The Turkish Authority has rejected many Syrian refugees' applications who seek the Turkish nationality over security reasons, without details about the criteria for evaluating the security status of Syrian residents in Turkey.  Mahmood Mihdi,  Syrian teacher, who...

President Donald Trump is meeting with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi at the White House. The president welcomed Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates on Monday for their first face-to-face meeting since Trump took office. Sitting alongside one another in the...

Saudi King Salman on Monday expressed hope a "historic" summit to be held Sunday between Arab and Muslim nations and US President Donald Trump will enhance ties and promote tolerance. The summit will be one of three forums held during a visit by Trump, who is making Saudi Arabia his first...

The Syrian regime has installed a crematorium in a military prison in order to destroy the remains of thousands of murdered prisoners, the United States alleged Monday. Stuart Jones, acting assistant secretary for the State Department Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, gave reporters...

An agreement between the Syrian government and rebels to evacuate an opposition-held district of Damascus was completed on Monday as more insurgents left the area, Qaboun, Syrian state TV and a monitoring group said. State TV quoted the Damascus provincial governor as saying that Qaboun "is...

"Three, two, one, action!" shouts Syrian refugee Mostafa Abdallah, 11, energetically directing his fellow child actors in a musical being filmed in a Palestinian camp in the Lebanese capital. Members of the cast spring into action, belting out a chaotic but charming rendition of a...

Russia had nothing to do with a massive global cyber-attack, President Vladimir Putin said Monday, calling for urgent consultations on countering the hackers. Hundreds of thousands of computers in more than 150 countries have been hit by the ransomware attack, which has been described as the...

 In-form striker Cristiano Ronaldo will try to take Real Madrid to the brink of the Spanish title Wednesday against Celta Vigo. Madrid would move three points clear of Barcelona at the top of La Liga with a victory in Galicia ahead of the season finale Sunday. The match at Balaidos...