The head of the Anglican Church met with Iraqi Christian refugees during a visit to Jordan in which he called on the region's embattled Christians to remain in the Middle East, the cradle of their faith. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Tuesday that Christians "are the past in the...

A Syrian rebel delegation has arrived in the Kazakh capital Astana for Russian-led talks aimed at ending the country's civil war after the group snubbed the previous round, Kazakhstan said Tuesday. A rebel delegation led by Jaish al-Islam faction leader Mohammad Alloush has arrived in Astana...

 (Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian regime President Bashar al-Assad agreed to a proposal submitted to him by his Defense Mnister and Chief of Staff through the head of the Organization and Administration Division to recruit tens of thousands of Syrians in the local defense forces militia under the...

Russia condemns the use of chemical weapons by anyone and wants a full and impartial investigation into last month's poison gas attack on the Syrian city of Khan Sheikhoun, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. "Those guilty must be found and punished," Putin told a news...

( New York Times )- Last month’s chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held Syrian town may have caught the world’s — and President Trump’s — attention, but it was not the only recent suspected use of a nerve agent by Syrian government forces. On three other occasions in the months leading up...

Expanding the number of countries involved in Russian-backed peace talks for Syria could offer a chance to jumpstart negotiations on a political solution, Germany's top official for Russia policy said in an interview published on Tuesday. Gernot Erler suggested that German Chancellor Angela...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would discuss possible operations in Syria's Manbij and Raqqa with Russian President Vladimir Putin during an official visit to Russia Wednesday, and with U.S. President Donald Trump later this month. Speaking at a ceremony to celebrate his return to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The local council of Jisr al-Shughour said Tuesday the key northern city is a stricken area as the regime and Russia’s bombing turned big parts of the city in Idlib province into ruins. The city that overlooks on the Alawites-dominated villages of coastal Latakia province has...

( CNN )- An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to investigate, CNN has learned. The rogue employee, Daniela Greene, lied to the FBI about where she was going and warned her new husband he was...

An Islamic State attack in an area held by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria killed at least 38 people on Tuesday including 23 civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack on Rajm al-Salibi, the location of a checkpoint and refugee camp...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl learned that 31 prisoners were released on Monday from al-Suwayda prison to fight alongside Assad forces in a deal the regime held with criminals accepting to fight in return for their release. A well-informed source said the group released is the first batch...

 Syria's armed opposition groups have confirmed their attendance at peace talks that are set to resume in the Kazakh capital, Astana, later this week, a Kazakh official said on Tuesday. Mohamed Alloush will head the opposition delegation in the talks. The talks, which will focus on...

( The Guardian )- US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has described the cruise missile attack on Syria “after-dinner entertainment” for guests dining at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on 6 April, when the president decided to launch the strike.  Ross, speaking at an economics conference...

Extremist fighters killed at least 10 soldiers in the western Iraqi province of Anbar Tuesday in their latest deadly attack on security forces in the area, officers said. The latest attack near the remote outpost of Rutba brought to at least 26 the number of members of the Iraqi security...

Iran will maintain its support for the Syrian government despite the deaths of hundreds of its advisers and volunteers in the six-year civil war, a commander said in comments published Tuesday. Shiite Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah are the Syrian regime's most important military...

North Korea accused the United States Tuesday of pushing the Korean peninsula to the brink of nuclear war after a pair of strategic U.S. bombers flew training drills with the South Korean and Japanese air forces in another show of strength. The two supersonic B-1B Lancer bombers were...

Gunmen shot dead a senior official of Iraq's state-run North Gas Company (NGC) Tuesday as he was heading to his office in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police and company sources said. Deputy NGC manager Mohammed Younis, an Iraqi Kurd, and his driver were killed instantly when assailants...

Accounts from witnesses and survivors cast doubt on American suggestions that ISIS was to blame for the deaths of more than 100 people taking refuge in a house hit by a U.S. airstrike earlier this year in Mosul, the deadliest single incident of the months-long campaign to retake the Iraqi city....

Britain can no longer rely on U.S. leadership on Middle East policy and must work more closely with Europe to ensure the Iran nuclear deal stays in place, among other policies, a committee of lawmakers said in a report Tuesday. The deal between Iran and six major powers restricts Tehran's...

Unidentified gunmen attacked an Egyptian police convoy near the main ring road around Cairo, killing three officers and wounding five others, the interior ministry said early Tuesday. "Armed elements riding in two vehicles approached a moving security convoy" around 11:45 pm Monday, the...