A Syrian man set himself on fire at a migrant camp on the Greek island of Chios on Thursday in despair over his bid to gain asylum, the Greek news agency ANA reported. Video footage, posted on Twitter by the BBC's Greece correspondent, showed a young man holding a petrol can and addressing...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes pounded rebel-held areas north of the city of Hama on Thursday in an escalation of airstrikes, a rebel official and activists said, as regime forces fought to reverse the rebels' biggest assault in months. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Orthopedic Doctor Ali Darwish, the latest health worker being killed in regime bombing on medical centers in rebel-held areas. Darwish died of his wounds after an attack by Chlorine-loaded barrel bombs on Latamna hospital in Hama province on Sunday. The attack come as...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged on Thursday that Washington faced difficult choices in the fight against Islamic State in Syria but sought to downplay differences with NATO ally Turkey over support for Kurdish militia fighters. Speaking after meetings in Ankara with...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday there was more discussion to be had on the way forward in Syria but that the status of President Bashar Assad would be decided by the Syrian people. Speaking in the Turkish capital Ankara after talks with Turkey's leaders, Tillerson also...

Syrian rebels have seized large areas from Islamic State in southern Syria in the last two weeks as the jihadist group prepares to defend its Raqqa stronghold in the north from a U.S.-backed assault, rebel commanders say. The advances by Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions have...

Iran strongly denied any meddling Thursday after Arab leaders condemned "foreign interference" in their affairs in a clear reference to the Islamic republic. Arab heavyweight Saudi Arabia has been at loggerheads with Iran over the conflicts in Syria and Yemen and political unrest in Bahrain,...

(The Guardian)- The number of Syrians who have fled their country has topped 5 million after six years of war, the UN’s refugee agency has said. UNHCR announced the milestone a year after participating countries at a Geneva conference pledged to “resettle and facilitate pathways for...

At least 14 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at an entrance to Baghdad, in an attack claimed by ISIS, officials said Thursday. The blast, which hit the checkpoint at the main southern entrance to the city Wednesday night, also wounded at least...

Turkey will take the necessary diplomatic and legal steps regarding the arrest of a top banker from Turkey's Halkbank, an adviser to President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. An executive from Turkey's fifth-largest listed bank by assets, Halkbank, is accused of conspiring with...

Saudi Aramco has formally appointed JPMorgan Chase & Co, Morgan Stanley and HSBC as international financial advisers for its initial public offering, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The trio join Moelis & Co and Evercore, which have been appointed independent financial...

Britain's chief negotiator in the country's divorce from the European Union is rejecting the suggestion that the government has threatened to end security cooperation unless it gets the trade deal it wants. David Davis told the BBC that Prime Minister Theresa May's letter triggering talks on...

As America's 16-year war in Afghanistan drags on, Russia is resurrecting its own interest in the "graveyard of empires." The jockeying includes engaging the Taliban and leading a new diplomatic effort to tackle Afghanistan's future, all while Washington leaves the world guessing on its strategy...

Six long years ago, on March 15, 2011, Syrian people flooded the streets to demand their right to live free and dignified lives. They demanded freedom of expression and assembly. And they wanted to be able to advance economically without having to prove their allegiance to the oligarchy of...

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres arrived in Iraq Thursday to review the humanitarian situation, calling for protection of civilians to be the "absolute priority" as Iraqi forces battle to retake Mosul. "Just arrived in Iraq to focus on the dire humanitarian situation on the ground. Protection of...

China and the European Union need to show joint leadership on climate change and cannot expect the "same leadership" from the new administration in the United States, European climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said in Beijing Thursday. Canete, speaking to reporters after meeting...

South Korea's disgraced ex-President Park Geun-hye was being questioned Thursday by a court that will decide if she should be arrested over corruption allegations that have already toppled her from power. Live TV footage earlier showed a stern-looking Park entering the Seoul Central District...

By Arwa al-Sousi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Ali Abu Dahan, a Lebanese citizen and former detainee of the al-Assad regime, confirmed that 622 Lebanese detainees documented by the Lebanese government and the Syrian regime are still detained and hidden in the al-Assad prisons. Abu Dahan indicated that the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Thursday killed a mother and her four children in the western countryside of Raqqa city, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl.  The indiscriminate U.S. strikes have killed about 250 people in March, a scaring death toll as Washington put its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of engineers who formerly worked on the Euphrates Dam warned that the continued military operations in the areas surrounding the Dam close to al-Tabqa city is preventing technical crews from reaching the dam to fix the damages to avoid its collapse. The engineers...