Turkey's coast guard has prevented 48 Syrian migrants from reaching Greece, but Turkey's foreign minister said Saturday that the migrant deal is at risk if the country's citizens aren't granted visa-free travel. The migrants on a rubber dinghy were stopped after a tip early Friday, the coast...

Three hundred families of ISIS fighters have fled the extremists' self-proclaimed Syrian capital of Raqqa in 24 hours, as rival forces encircle the city, activists said Saturday. The pro-opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said "300 families of foreign fighters of ISIS have...

On the walls of a former ISIS-run jail, Syrian detainees whiled away endless months by scrawling phrases and poems, praying for freedom or bidding farewell to loved ones. One former prisoner of the extremists, Khalifah al-Khidr, returned to his cell in Al-Bab's jail two weeks after the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Senior air force pilots from Iran visited Shuairat military airport in central Homs province on Wednesday as the Syrian regime’s key ally sends more troops to bolster army against ISIS and moderate rebels, well-informed sources said. Most of Syria’s airbase turned to Russia...

Turkey summoned the Dutch charge d'affaires to the foreign ministry Saturday, foreign ministry sources said, as a row between the two countries escalated with the Dutch government banning Turkey's Foreign Minister from flying to Rotterdam. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu had been due to...

A double bomb attack targeting Shi'ite pilgrims in Damascus killed at least 40 Iraqis and wounded 120 more who were going to pray at a nearby shrine, the Iraqi foreign ministry said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday's attack, which the Hezbollah-run al-Manar TV...

An Afghan official says at least eight members of the security forces have been killed by two other policemen in southern Zabul province. Gul Islam Seyal, spokesman for the provincial governor, said Saturday that both attackers fled the area after attacking their colleagues late Friday...

ISIS has released dozens of prisoners held in jails in the districts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that remain under its control, residents said Saturday. The release of the prisoners Friday is another sign that the militants are being overwhelmed by the U.S.-backed Iraqi offensive...

Syrian President Bashar Assad said he yet to see "anything concrete" from U.S. President Donald Trump over his vow to defeat ISIS and called U.S. forces deployed in Syria "invaders" because they were there without government permission. Assad, in an interview with Chinese TV station Phoenix,...

(Middle East Eye)- Dig deep in an English backyard and you might snaffle a stone arrowhead, and the odd bit of pottery. Do the same in Egypt and you could hit paydirt with a 25-foot colossus of an ancient god-king. That is exactly what happened on Thursday in Cairo, when a statue of ancient...

Three families who helped shelter former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in 2013 after his mass leak of information about surveillance programs have asked Canada for asylum, their lawyer said Friday. The families - three Sri Lankan adults, a Filipina, and...

China's Industry Minister, Miao Wei, said Saturday that investment across the Taiwan Strait can help achieve China's aim of achieving unification with the self-ruled island, and called for Taiwan to be more open to Chinese businesses. China deems Taiwan a wayward province to be taken back by...

Car enthusiast Mohammed Mohiedin Anis gazes sadly at a 1955 Buick Super, one of his collection of vintage cars "wounded" in battles that ravaged the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. Heavy bombardment of the eastern district of Shaar had blown massive chunks of concrete off a nearby...

(Daily Mail)- The Syrian army took control of the main water pumping station for Aleppo at al-Khafsa near the Euphrates on Tuesday after Islamic State fighters withdrew, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said. The army and its allies, backed by Russian air...

A federal judge in Wisconsin dealt the first legal blow to President Donald Trump's revised travel ban on Friday, barring enforcement of the policy to deny U.S. entry to the wife and child of a Syrian refugee already granted asylum in the United States. The temporary restraining order,...

Reporting  by Tareq Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- The first official court based on specific legal rules has been established in the city of Jarablus in northern of Syria after mutual agreement and coordination among all military factions and civil forces. Judge Abdul-Hai al-Taweel, the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl's deputy editor in-chief revealed to German Deutsche Welle (DW) channel that 88% of the arrest warrants issued by the al-Assad intelligence forces against foreign journalists were issued with the start of the Syrian revolution.  The regime mandated the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The ceasefire talks still underway in the besieged al-Waer neighborhood between the Syrian regime and local negotiations committee to end bombing and reaching a formula enable rebels to leave the last stronghold in the central city of Homs. Well-informed sources said the...

An airstrike by a Saudi-led Arab coalition on a market in Yemen killed 20 civilians and six rebels on Friday, medical and military sources said. The aircraft tried to target rebels at a roadblock on the southern outskirts of the Red Sea port of Khoukha, but the fighters fled to a market...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan signalled in Moscow on Friday he was not giving up on his ambition to take a role in controlling the Syrian town of Manbij, telling Vladimir Putin he sought to work with a U.S.-led coalition there. Turkey considers Manbij as part of the safe zone it wants to...