Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Sunday threatened to destroy Syrian air defense systems after they fired ground-to-air missiles at Israeli warplanes carrying out strikes. "The next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our planes we will destroy them without...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians have been killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs Sunday as regime forces step up its aerial and ground offensive on the besieged district for over a month, local activists said. Four people, including a child, lost their lives in Arbin town while 4 more people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 civilians, including children, have been killed in Russian airstrikes targeted the northern city of Idlib on Sunday, local media center said. Idlib Media Center said Russia has pounded a civil area with vacuum missiles, leaving 13 people killed and wounded. More...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) forces, advanced on Sunday to the area surrounding the town of al-Karama in al-Raqqah countryside while the Islamic State forces announced they killed ten members of the SDF east of al-Karama....

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that Germany owes NATO and the United States "vast sums" of money for defense. "There is no debt account at NATO," von der Leyen said in a statement, adding that it was wrong to link the...

Iraqi army helicopters strafed and fired rockets at ISIS positions in Mosul's Old City on Sunday as troops on the ground closed in on the strategic and symbolic prize of the al-Nuri Mosque. Federal Police troops had advanced past the train station in western Mosul closer to the mosque. A...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces battled rebel groups at the fringes of Damascus on Sunday, after the insurgents launched an attack from the east of the heavily fortified capital, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and allied forces had...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 2400 Rebels and their families evacuated from Waer Neighborhood in Homs city have arrived to FSA-controlled town of al-Bab in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said Sunday. Rebels began leaving their last bastion in the city of Homs on Saturday under a...

One person was in custody after a car drove up to a White House checkpoint on Saturday night and the driver claimed to have a bomb, CNN reported. Citing sources, CNN said there was no confirmation of any device in the vehicle but that security at the White House had been upgraded....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Democratic Union Party (PYD) continues its campaign closing the offices of parties and organizations that oppose it in the areas under its control in northern Syria. The PYD also announced that there would be no gatherings to celebrate the Nowruz festival that takes place...

Shihab Ayed and several other men struggled to push a cart carrying the bodies of his son and wife, wrapped in blankets, through a muddy ditch nearly two miles (3 km) from their destroyed home in Mosul. Four other carts followed, laden with days-old corpses from air strikes which the men...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will make his first state visit to Washington during the first week of April at the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump, Egyptian state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Sunday. The trip will be Sisi's first U.S. state visit since being...

(Sky News)- North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un has announced a "new birth" in his country's rocket programme after overseeing a test. It comes as the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets Chinese President Xi Jinping - who he hopes will help to curb North Korea's nuclear weapons programme....

With warm words from Chinese President Xi Jinping on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ended his first trip to Asia since taking office with an agreement to work together with China on North Korea and putting aside trickier issues. China has been irritated at being repeatedly...

(Eqtsad)- The systematic destruction and targeting field hospitals by the Syrian regime forces and Russian warplanes in Daraa province, has led to putting a large number of field hospitals out of service, causing a dramatic decline of health services provided to people. The rise in the prices...

(CBC)- After months of on and off negotiations, the federal government has reached a settlement with three Canadian men as compensation for the role Canadian officials played in their torture in Syria and Egypt. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia...

France midfielder Paul Pogba has been ruled out of a friendly international against Spain later this month because of a hamstring injury. Pogba will be out for about 15 days. The French football federation said in a statement on Saturday that France coach Didier Deschamps called up Monaco's...

An own goal from Watford captain Troy Deeney handed Crystal Palace a vital 1-0 win in the Premier League at Selhurst Park on Saturday. A big penalty shout from Palace within the opening 10 minutes of a scrappy first half was turned down by referee Martin Atkinson after winger Wilfried Zaha...

The EU is set to re-commit itself to "our common future" at a summit marking its 60th anniversary, defying Brexit and growing euroskepticism, according to a draft declaration. They also vow to work for "even greater unity" while allowing "different paces and intensity" of cooperation – a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime mourned 34 troops, including 11officers, from coastal province of Tatrus, have been killed in the last two weeks across Syria, local reporter said. The mourning posters have been sweeping the roads, streets and pro-regime social media as Syrians celebrate the...