(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two women were killed on Wednesday when regime warplanes hit a camp in northern Hama province sheltering displaced people as heavy clashes still underway in rebel-held areas of Hama and Idlib, activists said. The camp of Marret al-Numan is a home for 250 displaced...

Syrian Kurdish forces called on Wednesday for a no-fly zone across the country's north in response to deadly Turkish air strikes the previous day. "Only (by) declaring north Syria as a no-fly zone can YPG defend the country unhindered. Turkey must adhere to no-fly zone," wrote the Kurdish...

First Daughter Ivanka Trump is contradicting her father, the US president, insisting that allowing Syrian refugees to immigrate to the United States "has to be part of the discussion" over ending Syria's years old civil war. "I think there is a global humanitarian crisis that's happening,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia did not withdrawn its fighter jets from Hmeimym air base in coastal Latakia province, on contrary, more deployment is taking pace as regime launches major offensive backed by Russia in Hama province, senior regime army told Zaman al-Wasl refuting reports of Russian media...

Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq on Wednesday and killed six militants, the military said, in a second day of cross-border raids. A military statement said the air strikes targeted the Zap region, the Turkish name for a river which flows across the...

(BBC)- There's a glint of pride in Abu Jaafar's eyes as he explains what he does for a living. He used to work as a security guard in a pub but then he met a group which trades in organs. His job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money, and the influx of...

French intelligence services have scientific proof that the Syrian regime was responsible for a suspected chemical attack that killed 88 people, France's foreign minister said Wednesday. Jean-Marc Ayrault said analysis of samples taken at the scene of the April 4 attack in rebel-held Khan...

Hundreds of tearful mourners attended a mass funeral Wednesday for loved ones killed in a suicide bombing on a convoy of evacuees, in one of the Syrian war's most gruesome attacks. At least 150 people, including 72 children, were killed on April 15 in an explosion targeting evacuees from...

A group of around 50 Syrian migrants have been stranded since last week in the Moroccan-Algerian border zone with neither country granting them access, activists said Wednesday. "Separated into two groups, they are surviving under very difficult conditions thanks to help from some activists...

Lawmakers investigating a drone strike which killed a British radical in Syria said they were disappointed by a lack of transparency which hindered their efforts to assess whether the strike was proportional. British national Reyaad Khan and two other Islamic State associates were driving in...

 Iraqi pro-government forces have recaptured the ancient city of Hatra city from ISIS, they said Wednesday. "Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) forces liberated the ancient city of Hatra... after fierce clashes with the enemy," said the Shiite-dominated paramilitary group....

ISIS is using weaponised drones to hold off U.S.-backed forces advancing in a key Syrian town, activists said Wednesday, a tactic the extremists have also used in neighbouring Iraq. With air cover from the U.S.-led coalition, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were locked in clashes inside...

 French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign team Wednesday confirmed it had been the target of at least five advanced cyber-attack operations since January, which it said had failed to compromise any campaign data. "Emmanuel Macron is the only candidate in the French...

 Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir discussed Syria's future with his Russian counterpart in Moscow Wednesday after which he said Riyadh still believed there was no political future for President Bashar Assad. Al-Jubeir, after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, also...

When Mohamed al-Khalaf escaped from Syria and won asylum in Luxembourg last year, his wife and children stayed behind in Raqqa, the hub of Islamic State's so-called Caliphate. Khalaf applied for his family to join him, exercising a right to family life under European law. But first,...

(Orient News)- Following a series of threats by Assad regime and ISIS terrorists targeting Orient News, Agence France-Presse joins the former in a never-ending list of threats. AFP’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Christian Chaise, sent a letter containing an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Four family members have been killed on Wednesday in regime barrel bombs attack on southern Daraa province as skirmishes escalate in strategic district in the Old City, local activists said. Two children, wife and husband were killed in the attack on Nasib town at the...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the airstrike that the United States launched at a Syrian military base earlier this month damages the prospects of a political settlement for the war-torn country. The airstrike was in response to a chemical weapons attack on April 4 on a northern...

French intelligence services have concluded that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on April 4 in northern Syria and that Assad or his closest entourage ordered the strike, a declassified report showed. The attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed source confirmed that the Syrian regime had resettled part of the fighters from al-Fuaa and Kafraya and their families, who left their towns as part of the four cities agreement, in al-Qasayr in central Homs province. The news was further confirmed by reports...