(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite eastern Aleppo evacuation two weeks ago, casualties have still been reported among regime forces, according to activists, saying rebels have planted explosives inside washing machines and refrigerators. The looting of evacuees properties and furniture pushed...

Islamic State attacked an Iraqi police checkpoint near the southern city of Najaf on Sunday, killing seven policemen as government forces in the north made more gains against the militants in Mosul, their last major stronghold in the country. The Najaf attack, which involved gunmen and a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The military expert Ismail Eyub considered that five core reasons pushed Russia, in cooperation with Turkey, to impose the ceasefire in Syria although Russian President Vladimir Putin described the ceasefire as “fragile.” In a statement to zaman al-Wasl, Eyub mentioned that...

The U.S. embassy in Turkey on Sunday rejected media claims it had prior intelligence about the deadly terror attack at an Istanbul nightclub. "Contrary to rumors circulating on social media, the U.S. Government had no information about threats to specific entertainment venues, including the...

 A plane carrying 35 Russian diplomats, expelled from the United States over Moscow's alleged interference in the presidential election, took off from Washington on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. "The plane has taken off, everyone is on board," said the Russian embassy in...

 North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said on Sunday that his country was making final preparations to conduct its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile — a bold statement less than a month before the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. Although North Korea has...

Israel on Sunday ruled that it would not release to their families the bodies of Hamas militants killed during attacks on Israelis but would instead bury them, the government said. The decision by the security cabinet followed the release on Saturday by the Palestinian group of video footage...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Sunday captured strategic town after fierce fighting with ISIS in the western countryside of Raqqa city, the U.S.-backed militia said. Capture of the village of al-Mahmoudelly will push SDF further to encircle al-Raqqa city , the de facto...

Around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco Sunday by storming a border fence, though most were eventually turned back, the Spanish government said. Dozens of migrants made it to the top of the 6 meter barbed wire fence in...

Iraqi forces have retaken around two thirds of the eastern half of Mosul from ISIS since the start of an offensive in mid-October, a top commander said Sunday. "From east Mosul... more than 60 percent" has been retaken from ISIS, Staff Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, a top commander...

(Zaman al-Wasl) “What did Smurf tell you… Didn’t Smurf bring you… He ‘smurfed’ him…. On the ‘smurfing’,” are repeated as a reference to the deceased artist Philemon Wehbe a Lebanese artist who played the role of the oblivious person whose life remains untouched by any issue happening around...

Syrian government warplanes carried out several airstrikes and low-level clashes persisted in some areas Sunday, but a Russian and Turkish-backed ceasefire largely held in other areas on its third day, activists and rebels said. Jets bombed the villages of Kafr Kar, Mintar and around...

Police say a lawmaker from Bangladesh's ruling party has been shot dead by masked men in northern Bangladesh. Local police chief Atiar Rahman says Manzurul Islam Liton, a federal legislator from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party, was shot at his home in Gaibandha district...

The Lebanese Army arrested Sunday seven suspects in north Lebanon on terror links, state media reported. An army intelligence patrol detained seven Syrian nationals in Zgharta north of Beirut on charges “of communicating with terrorist groups,” the National News Agency said. No further...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime keeps acting in a way provoking its supporters in the coastal area, as two separate incidents happened, showed the amount of ignorance of the regime to its loyalists' dignity and safety. In Latakia city, Bashar al-Assad's heartland, all staff of Tishrin...

President Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Turkey would fight to the end against all forms of attack by terror groups and their backers after a gunman killed 39 people in a shooting spree at an Istanbul nightclub. "As a nation, we will fight to the end against not just the armed attacks of...

South Korean President Park Geun-hye Sunday rejected allegations of wrongdoing in the political scandal that threatens her presidency, saying she was "set up" and the allegations were "fabrication and falsehood", said South Korean media. Park said Choi Soon-sil, her long-time friend, was...

Hundreds of thousands of merrymakers witnessed the descent of the kaleidoscopic New Year's Eve ball in Times Square at midnight Sunday, celebrating a century-old New York tradition under an unprecedented umbrella of security. As many as 2 million people, surrounded by a ring of 40-ton sand...

Burundi's environment minister was shot dead in the capital Bujumbura early Sunday, police said, the first assassination of its kind since the country was plunged into political turmoil in 2015. Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, the country's water, environment and planning minister, was killed...

(Sky News)- Five people have been killed and dozens rescued after a blaze ripped through a boat carrying tourists to Indonesian islands. The craft was heading to islands north of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, when it caught fire. Some 17 people were also injured, said Ferry Budiharso,...