Residents of Damascus are scrambling for clean water after the government attacked rebels holding the city's main source in a nearby valley, leading to an accidental outage that has stretched on for nearly two weeks. The cut-off is a major challenge to the government's effort throughout...

German investigators identified the Tunisian man who killed 12 people in Berlin before Christmas as a threat in February last year but decided it was unlikely he would carry out an attack, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. Anis Amri, 24, ploughed a truck through a Berlin Christmas market on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Tuesday pressed new advances in the northern countryside of Raqqa city, taking three villages from ISIS after fierce fighting, the U.S. backed group said. The coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters took villages of al-Dahlan, Arir and...

 A suspected U.S.-led airstrike on Tuesday killed at least 30 members of former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front including senior figures, an activist group said. Unidentified aircraft "hit a major base of Fateh al-Sham near to the town of Sarmada" in the northwestern province of...

Iraqi forces on Tuesday captured a major district of Daesh-held Mosul amid an ongoing army offensive aimed at ousting the terrorist group from the northern city.  "Iraqi forces have taken Mosul’s southeastern Al-Hay al-Senai district following fierce clashes with Daesh militants,"...

The U.S. Defense Department, reacting to North Korea's statement that it plans to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, said Tuesday it was confident in its ability to protect U.S. allies and the U.S. homeland from threats from Pyongyang. "We have a ballistic missile defense ......

Albanian civic organizations have started a 10-day campaign to collect funding for children in Syria. The initiative was launched Tuesday by the Interreligious Cooperation Center and the Albanian Red Cross in the central city of Elbasan, with the local mosque contributing the first amount of...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl continued in its editorial policies during 2016 to include all Syrian land be it under regime control or areas under control of Syrian resistance by covering developments through a network of editors and reporters who follow one of the fiercest wars in the...

Germany's chief prosecutor has charged a 28-year-old German citizen with murder, belonging to a terrorist group and committing war crimes for his role in the execution of six detainees by ISIS militants in Syria in 2015. The man, identified as Harry S. in court documents, has been in custody...

Israeli forces destroyed 13 structures -- including a school -- in a village in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency. The structures in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Tana east of the city Nablus were deemed illegal by the Israeli authorities...

The Republican-led U.S. Congress begins a new session Tuesday where it will start laying plans for enacting President-elect Donald Trump's agenda of tax cuts, repeal of Obamacare and the rollback of financial and environmental regulations. With Trump set to be sworn in as president on Jan....

Turkish police detained two foreign nationals at Istanbul's main Ataturk Airport in connection with a gun attack which killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported Tuesday. No further details were immediately available. ISIS claimed...

(The Guardian)- A British man has been killed fighting against Islamic State in northern Syria, his family and Kurdish activists have said. Ryan Lock, 20, from Chichester, West Sussex, died on 21 December during an offensive by anti-Islamic State forces to recapture the city of Raqqa, the...

The gunman who killed 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub had fought in Syria for Islamic State jihadists, a report said on Tuesday, as Turkish authorities intensified their hunt for the attacker. Police released pictures of the suspect who went on the rampage at the plush Reina nightclub on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The year of 2016 was difficult for the southern province of Deraa, after the victories of the resistance. The cradle of Syria's revolution that erupted in March 2011 had endured to unprecedented assassinations of rebel commanders in 2016. The year’s difficulties started...

The leader of Turkey’s opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said Tuesday he would back a parliamentary bill to change the country’s constitution. The move -- the first open commitment to support the bill by the MHP leader -- brings a potential change to a presidential system one step...

(Sky News)- Donald Trump has warned North Korea that its plans to put parts of America in range of a nuclear missile "won't happen". The US President-elect, who will be inaugurated on 20 January, put out a tweet in response to a claim by Kim Jong-Un that his country is close to testing an...

 Iran has published a list of 29 major companies from Europe and Asia approved to bid for oil and gas projects after the lifting of sanctions over its nuclear program. The European companies on the list include Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, Italy's ENI, France's Total, Russia's Gazprom and...

(Al Jazeera)- It is safe to say that, until recently, the debate over Syria's political future came down to one thing: the fate of President Bashar al-Assad. With his victory in Aleppo, and the firm support of Iran and Russia, it is also fairly safe to say that the Syrian president's future is...

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday refused to testify in a case that will decide her future following her impeachment over a corruption scandal, forcing the Constitutional Court to delay the start of oral arguments. After Park's refusal, the nine-justice court asked her to...