(Zaman Al Wasl)- Former al Qaeda group aimed to escape US-led airstrikes through dissolving in a new alliance, Haya't al-Sham Tahrir (The Sham Liberation Committee), jihadist source said, such an aim may drag the allied Islamist groups with Jabhat Fateh al-Sham to blacklist and Coalition's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 35 army troops from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed in the past two weeks fighting in different battlefields across Syria, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 15 officers, the source added. The coffins shipments to the regime's powerful...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey Thursday for the first time since the failed July coup, seeking to keep a key partnership alive after a series of crises. Merkel is expected to meet both President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim during the hugely...

On his first trip to the European Union since the U.S. presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday is heading to Hungary, the nation whose leader has cozied up to Moscow despite Russia-West tensions. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a populist dubbed "little Putin"...

EU leaders meeting in Malta Friday will face the challenge of how to work with a chaotic Libya and reluctant sub-Saharan African countries to prevent a feared upsurge of migrant smuggling to Europe. Here is how the central Mediterranean smuggling route that runs mainly from Libya to Italy...

(New York Times)- “The age of the war correspondent as hero,” Phillip Knightley famously wrote in his book “The First Casualty,” “appears to be over.” According to Knightley, Vietnam was the high-water mark for the self-mythologizing and self-aggrandizing descendants of the war correspondent...

(Daily Mail)- New Yorkers showed their solidarity with Muslim women today by donning stars and stripes headscarves at rally on World Hijab Day - just days after President Trump's controversial travel ban. Dozens of women gathered on the steps of City Hall on Wednesday on the fifth year of...

(The Guardian)- A British man who died fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria killed himself to avoid being taken hostage by Islamic State militants. Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, West Sussex, died in an offensive by anti-Isis forces in a bid to retake the northern city of Raqqa,...

Wonder goals from Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi left Barcelona with a 2-1 Copa del Rey semifinal, first leg advantage over Atletico Madrid to take back to the Camp Nou next week. Suarez’s solo effort and a thunderous strike from Messi gave Barca a deserved commanding lead at half-time....

Civilians were "likely" killed in a US commando raid in Yemen over the weekend and children may have been among the dead, the US military's Central Command said. The January 29 raid against Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has garnered wide attention because a Navy SEAL was also killed and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four children and a woman on Wednesday have been killed in regime barrel bombs attack on Hama province, local media center said. The barrel attack on the ISIS-held village of al-Nashmi has also left dozen people wounded. More aerial bombing targeted towns of Tybat al-Imam and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Red Crescent volunteers have been wounded in a US-led coalition airstrike on their center in Idlib city, Civil Defense rescuing group said Wednesday. The strike on the Carlton hotel has also caused huge damage in the building made it out of service. In the eastern...

The United States has warned Palestinian leaders there will be harsh consequences for suing Israel in international courts, including steps against the Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Wednesday. Palestinian side were told that suing Israel in international...

Five alleged leaked phone conversations between Egypt’s president and foreign minister appear to shed fresh light on Egypt’s rocky relations with Saudi Arabia. One of the alleged leaked conversations between President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and FM Sameh Shoukry -- broadcast Tuesday by the Muslim...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army on Wednesday took two villages from ISIS in the eastern countryside of Aleppo and its main stronghold of al-Bab, local reporter said. The capture of Abu al-Randain and al-Ghouz villages will halt regime advance west of ISIS-held town of al-Bab....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 108,000 people have been displaced from Iraq since the beginning of Mosul battle three months ago, they suffer difficult living condition in camps they live in, especially the camp of al-Hol near Hasaka northern Syria. Number of refugees in the camp have increased...

Egypt’s president Wednesday gave a thinly veiled but stern warning to opposition politicians calling for a boycott of presidential elections in March, saying he would die first before allowing anyone to disrupt security and stability and threatening to take unspecified measures against...

(New York Times)- President Trump’s travel ban disrupted the plans of hundreds of people around the globe, but perhaps none more vulnerable than Sham Aldaher, an infant Syrian refugee girl, and her family. Sham was born without an eye and with a seriously disfigured face. Following two...

(Eqtsad)- Medication crisis and shortage of most kind of drugs in Damascus is highly mentioned at social media websites, as people talk about lack of medicine and the difficulty of getting it in the capital, besides expressing anger on the regime and officials of the pharmaceutical sector...

In the midst of a furious Middle East war nearly 70 years ago, a group of Israeli and Egyptian officers put down their guns, ate lunch together and discussed the prospects for peace in the region, according to a documentary film that premiered in New York last month. The group included two...