(Zaman Al Wasl)- In the far north, at the last part of Syrian territory in Jarablus countryside, fate and agreements chose for this location to be the camp for the forcefully displaced of al-Waer neighborhood. Camp residents face harsh environmental conditions, incomplete camp infrastructure,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army on Tuesday has recaptured al-Masasneh village in the northwestern Hama province as regime forces and allied Shiite militia press advances in the northern countryside, field sources said. Backed by heavy Russian and regime airstrikes, the regime army seeks to...

The toll in Turkish air raids on Kurdish positions in northeastern Syria rose to 28 killed, activists said Wednesday, a day after Ankara said it had targeted "terrorist havens" near its border. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of those killed were members of the Kurdish...

U.S. troops began delivering a missile defence system that has infuriated China to a deployment site in South Korea Wednesday, amid heightened tensions over the North's nuclear ambitions. Washington is urging Beijing -- Pyongyang's sole major ally -- to do more to rein it in, but the Asian...

Protesters in Venezuela plan a high-risk march against President Nicolas Maduro Wednesday, sparking fears of fresh violence after demonstrations that have left 26 dead in the crisis-wracked country. The opposition urged protesters to march on central Caracas, a pro-Maduro bastion where the...

( The Guardian )- The UN has been promised half the amount requested for its humanitarian appeal for Yemen, secretary general António Guterres has said, as activists on the ground said relief was being prevented from reaching its recipients. Donors at a fundraising conference in Geneva...

China has launched its first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier, state media said Wednesday, as the country seeks to transform its navy into a force capable of projecting power onto the high seas. Adorned with colourful ribbons, the Type 001A ship "transferred from dry dock...

A judge in San Francisco, California blocked Tuesday President Donald Trump's effort to defund localities that limit cooperation with federal immigration officers. The Trump administration had sought to freeze federal grants to "sanctuary cities", but U.S. District Judge William Orrick said...

President Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters on Tuesday that Turkey would reconsider its position on joining the European Union if it was kept waiting much longer and if the current hostile mentality of some member states persists. Erdogan said a decision on Tuesday by the Parliamentary Assembly of...

Iraq is holding hundreds of millions of dollars Qatari negotiators had brought to Baghdad as ransom money for the release of kidnapped hunters, the prime minister said Tuesday. A hunting party consisting of 24 Qataris and two Saudis kidnapped in southern Iraq in December 2015 was released...

President Tayyip Erdogan insisted there could be no solution to Syria's conflict while President Bashar al-Assad remains in power, and said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him he was not personally committed to the Syrian leader. "Assad is not the address for a prospective solution in...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- In February 2016, Zaman al-Wasl in an exclusive report revealed how the giant Cement group LafargeHolcim struck oil deals with ISIS and how tons of toxic materials were delivered to the radical group. Zaman’s investigative report...

The United States is "deeply concerned" by Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria, the State Department said Tuesday. "We are very concerned, deeply concerned that Turkey conducted airstrikes earlier today in northern Syria as well as northern Iraq without proper...

 Egyptian security officials say an ISIS suicide bomber has killed four members of a local tribe and wounded others in the northern Sinai Peninsula. They say the attacker, driving a car filled with explosives, struck a checkpoint near the town of Rafah manned by members of the powerful...

Militants from ISIS posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who welcomed them in central Mosul, officials said on Tuesday. Wearing police uniforms, they entered parts of the Old City on Monday to trick residents into showing their support for the federal forces, the...

A group called the Imam Shamil Battalion has claimed responsibility for the metro bombing in St. Petersburg, Russia this month that killed 16 people and said the bomber was acting on orders from Al-Qaeda, according to the SITE monitoring group. In a statement, originally published by a...

Tunisia's parliament voted Tuesday to ease the country's harsh law on drugs, in a move that could see offenders like youths caught smoking marijuana escape jail terms. The North African country has faced mounting calls from rights groups and civil society to reform the law. Tuesday's...

Google has sprinkled some new ingredients into its search engine in an effort to prevent bogus information and offensive suggestions from souring its results. The changes have been in the works for four months, but Google hadn't publicly discussed most of them until now. The announcement in...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has voted in favor of re-opening monitoring procedures in Turkey. The assembly's monitoring committee raised concerns over constitutional amendments that were approved this month in a national referendum amid a state of emergency....

 Iran's supreme leader called on presidential candidates on Tuesday to champion economic self-sufficiency, further distancing himself from Hassan Rouhani's policy of opening to the West and seeking foreign investment. Allies of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who aim to reclaim the presidency...