(Eqtsad)- Heavy rainfall over Syria recently has saved the rain-fed agriculture season in te country from drought, however, the season this year is still weak and not as productive as former years according to farmers of Homs and Hama. Many farmers talked to Eqtsad explaining that recent...

Ground staff at Berlin's two airports will start a 25-hour strike on Monday, the Verdi union said on Sunday, stepping up action in a pay dispute that has already caused the cancellation of around 1,000 flights. Workers at Berlin's Tegel and Schoenefeld airports will walk out at 4 am local...

The death toll from a double bomb attack targeting Shiites visiting a pilgrimage site in Damascus has climbed to 74, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday. Most of the dead in Saturday's attack were Iraqi Shiites who were going to visit a cemetery near the Old City...

A journalist says a technician with his television station has been wounded in a car bomb blast in Somalia's capital. Abdiaziz Ibrahim, a Somali journalist with London-based Universal TV, says technician Abdihamid Karzai was seriously injured when a bomb planted in his car exploded in a...

Turkey's Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya was back in Istanbul on Sunday after being expelled from the Netherlands and escorted back to Germany by Dutch police, condemning The Hague's "ugly" treatment. "We were subjected to rude and tough treatment... Treating a female minister this...

Iraqi security forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the Islamic State group since launching an assault on the area last month, a commander said Sunday. "Around more than a third of the right bank (west Mosul) is under the control of our units," Staff Major General Maan...

A Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in a 1997 shooting rampage was released Sunday, after serving 20 years in prison. Ahmed Daqamseh had opened fire on the eighth graders while they were on a class trip to the scenic "Island of Peace" border post, also wounding seven...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Download the detainee list of 8536 people were arrested between 2011-2013 by 271 branch, a notorious military intelligence department was based in Idlib. Since the detainees had been transferred to 291 military branch in Damascus, their fate still...

Hundreds if not thousands of armed men are converging on Libya's main oil shipping terminals, which the rival powers in the country's east and west are fighting to control in a battle being watched by global oil markets. The struggle for the Ras Lanuf refinery and nearby Sidr depot threatens...

Dutch elections on Wednesday set the stage for others in France and Germany that come against a background of eurosceptic or anti-immigrant sentiments boosted by Brexit. - The Netherlands: PVV eyes record score - On Wednesday, 12.9 million Dutch voters will be eligible to cast ballots in...

Dutch police used water cannon and horses early Sunday to break up protests outside the Turkish consulate in Rotterdam as the city expelled a Turkish minister, amid an escalating diplomatic row with Ankara. After several hours of calm demonstrations, police moved in to disperse over 1,000...

The South Korean politician likely to emerge as the next president promised justice and common sense on Sunday as workers renovated the home of ousted leader Park Geun-hye to prepare for her departure from the presidential Blue House. The Constitutional Court ruled on Friday to uphold a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish PYd militia has arrested 25 Arab tribesmen in the northeastern village of Dhaileh in Hasaka province to join the fight against the Islamic State, activists said Saturday. Source revealed that the Arab fighters were given Kurdish names to avoid ISIS reprisal....

(Al-Jazeera)- The fourth round of UN-led Syria talks, dubbed Geneva 4, wrapped up last week with a tentative agreement between warring sides on an agenda for future negotiations - but a problematic work plan coupled with shifting international priorities could draw out the already lengthy...

Barcelona will be without Neymar after his Champions League heroics against Paris Saint-Germain when the Spanish champions continue their quest for a third straight La Liga title at Deportivo la Coruna on Sunday. Neymar scored twice and set up Sergi Roberto's remarkable 95th-minute winner as...

Thousands of Arabs staged a protest march Saturday in northern Israel against legislation aimed at silencing mosque loudspeakers, an AFP reporter said. Some three thousand men and women marched through the town of Kabul, holding Palestinian flags and signs saying "The muezzin law won't pass"...

By Ethar Abuhaq (Zaman al-Wasl) In recent years, Zaman al-Wasl has been a source for researchers and writers publishing books and studies about Syrian politics and Jihadism in Syria. Zaman al-Wasl not only provides accurate news from inside Syria but serves as a resource for writers,...

The Dutch ban on Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu flying to Rotterdam on Saturday in a row over Ankara's political campaigning among Turkish emigres will not go unanswered and will have consequences, Cavusoglu said on Saturday. Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, Cavusoglu said the...

(Middle East Eye)- The announcement earlier this week by the head of Iran's Martyrs Foundation that 2,100 combatants had been killed in Syria while "defending the shrine," has placed the extent of Iran’s human sacrifice into sharp relief. The term "defending the shrine" (Modafeaaneh Haram),...

Syrian rebel groups called for the postponement of Russian-backed peace talks in Kazakhstan this month and said further meetings would depend on whether the government and its allies adhered to a newly declared March 7-20 cease-fire. The third round of talks is due to take place in Astana on...