(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Tuesday launched  major offensive in the central Hama province, taking two towns and destroying two fighters jets in Hama military airbase, activists and spokesman said. The towns of Soran and Maadaras were taken by rebels after surprise attack. Jaish...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six people have been killed Tuesday in Syrian missile attack on the town of Kafr Owayyed in Idlib province, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The attack has also left 3 people wounded. In its turn, the regime warplanes have conducted air strikes on Jisr al-Shughour town and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian moderate rebels pressed advances in the Syrian desert, taking ground from the Islamic State near the Iraqi border, press officer said Tuesday. Jaish Asoud al-Sharqiya, or the Army of East Lions, mostly tribesmen, has captured Bir Mdad as clashes still...

Britain is set to ban passengers from carrying most electronic devices on flights from certain countries in the Middle East, Sky News reported on Tuesday, following similar measures introduced in the United States. The United States imposed restrictions on carry-on electronic devices bigger...

At least four people were killed on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint less than a kilometer away from the presidential compound in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, police said. Security officials at the scene told Reuters the checkpoint was rammed by a car bomb driven by a...

Tens of thousands of people celebrated the New Year festival of Newroz in Turkey's overwhelmingly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir Tuesday, even as police killed a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb. The annual event, which received official permission, took place under heavy security ahead of...

Many child asylum-seekers in Germany still have to spend long periods in unsafe and overcrowded shelters, and some have only limited access to education and don't receive adequate health care, according to a new survey released by the U.N. children's agency Tuesday. The UNICEF study on the...

 Iraqi forces gained ground from ISIS in Mosul and have deployed snipers in the Old City to target the extremists, officers said Tuesday. Iraqi forces launched a major operation to recapture west Mosul -- the most-populated urban area still held by ISIS -- on February 19, and have...

Germany will be without injured midfielder Mesut Ozil, winger Julian Draxler and forward Mario Gomez when they host England in a friendly international on Wednesday, coach Joachim Loew said. Loew said the trio were nursing minor injuries and would need a few days to recover with the world...

More than 6,000 migrants have been rescued on the central Mediterranean route from Libya to Italy in the last few days, as greater numbers take to the sea in warmer weather, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday. Some 500 migrants are believed to have drown so far...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 200 civilians were killed and wounded early Tuesday in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on a school inhibited by 50 displaced families in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, activists said. Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, civil campaign tracks the atrocities in...

Negotiations for a mega U.S.-EU trade deal are still alive after they were suspended over elections and public opposition on both sides of the Atlantic, a senior U.S. diplomat said Tuesday. EU officials had feared U.S. President Donald Trump would abandon the four-year talks for the...

Syrian government and rebel delegations have confirmed their attendance at peace talks set to resume in Geneva this week, the United Nations said Tuesday, despite renewed fighting around Damascus. "All invitees who had already attended the previous round of talks in February 2017 have...

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in Baghdad that killed 27 people the previous day, shattering a relative lull in the Iraqi capital. The extremist group says in an online statement posted on an ISIS-affiliated website hours after the attack that a militant parked the...

Six-year-old Aya al-Souqi, a Syrian refugee, held the camera phone up to her gaze and listened to hear her mother. "I hear you!" she exclaimed. It was only the second time she'd spoken to her mother in Beeskow, Germany since getting fitted with a hearing aid by a Chicago-based charity to...

An Australian government probe has found no evidence taxpayer money was misused by the World Vision NGO in the Gaza Strip, after Israel alleged millions of dollars were diverted to Hamas. In August 2016, Israel accused World Vision's Gaza head Mohammed al-Halabi of siphoning off millions of...

European Union leaders gather in Rome this week to proclaim their "common future" on the bloc's 60th birthday, despite a wave of crises including Britain's looming exit from the bloc. The 27 leaders will use Saturday's anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome on March 25, 1957, to...

Martin McGuinness, the Irish Republican Army commander who led his underground, paramilitary movement toward reconciliation with Britain, and was Northern Ireland's deputy first minister for a decade in a power-sharing government, died Tuesday, his Sinn Fein party announced. The party said...

(BBC)- The recent plundering of priceless artefacts from Syria and Iraq by both terrorists and criminal gangs has taken place on an unprecedented scale. Stolen items have been turning up in Europe and the US, where they have then been offered to private collectors. The UN heritage body...

 Russia's Foreign Ministry declined Tuesday to confirm or deny reported plans by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to visit Moscow, expressing its surprise at the "regular leak" of information from Washington. Sources told Reuters Monday Tillerson planned to skip his first meeting...