Reporting by Faris Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian writer Yahya Bader, has revealed, for the first time, information about Majid al-Majid, powerful al-Qaeda leader, as he knew him in person and dealt with him before knowing his identity and his death in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine civilians, including 5 of one family, have been killed in a U.S.-led air strike on Raqqa province, activists said Thursday. The strikes hit the ISIS-held village of Ja'bar in the western countryside, such raids that mainly kill civilians despite U.S. statements that its...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime army lost connection with loyal fighters were heading the ISIS-besieged T-4 military airbase this week, in support to forces fighting the radical group in Syria desert, sources said. Zaman al-Wasl obtained information assuring that regime has lost connection...

The Tunisian suspected of killing 12 people at a Berlin Christmas market was filmed by police in the city shortly after the attack and investigators believe he is still hiding in the German capital, media reported on Friday. The 24-year-old suspect, Anis Amri, was caught on camera by police...

The Syrian regime army said it had retaken complete control of Aleppo on Thursday after the last rebel fighters were evacuated from the battered city, handing President Bashar al-Assad his biggest victory of the nearly six-year-old war. The military said it had brought "the return of...

Turkish authorities detained 31 people on Friday suspected of links to ISIS, broadcaster NTV said, as clashes between Turkish soldiers and the militant group intensified in northern Syria. Turkey issued arrest warrants for 41 people in Istanbul for "being members of an armed terrorist...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad appeared close to victory in Aleppo on Wednesday, but United Nations and rebel officials denied that an operation to evacuate fighters and civilians from the city had been completed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the war, said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime students of Tishreen University in coastal Latakia city have turned to an armed militia since tens of them have arms inside the campus,  threatening the safety of colleagues who come from rebel-held areas, sources said. On Tuesday, a girl threatened her...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called the attacks this week in Berlin and Ankara "terrible" on Wednesday and said he has been proven to be correct about his plans to impose curbs on Muslims immigrating to the United States. "What’s going on is terrible, terrible," Trump told reporters,...

Hundreds of rebel fighters and civilians, including small children swaddled in thick blankets, were bused out of war-ravaged Aleppo in heavy snow on Wednesday as the evacuation of former rebel strongholds entered its final phase. Scenes of buses slowly driving out of Aleppo in a shroud...

(Wall Street Journal)- The cradle of the Arab Spring, Tunisia remains the freest Arab democracy. It has one of the region’s most developed economies and highest literacy rates. And it is also by far the largest source of foreign fighters heading to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq....

The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it could not confirm reports that all rebel fighters had left the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, adding that the absence of U.N. observers to monitor the situation made it difficult to assess the situation. "I don't think we can say definitively one...

Buses carrying Syrian civilians and fighters began leaving the last rebel-held enclave of Aleppo on Wednesday after being stalled for a day, aid officials and pro-government media reports said. Obstacles hindering evacuations from east Aleppo and from two villages besieged by rebels outside...

A total of 14 Turkish soldiers were killed and more than 33 were wounded in clashes with ISIS militants near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab Wednesday, while 138 militants were killed in the fighting, Turkey's military said. Turkish-backed Syrian rebels have been besieging the...

(Vox)- Israel has spent years trying to avoid getting sucked into the vicious civil war raging in neighboring Syria. It’s now wading into the conflict in a way you wouldn’t expect. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he has ordered his government to “find ways” to...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Daesh-held city of Al-Bab in northern Syria was completely besieged by the Turkish army and the Free Syrian Army (FSA). In a meeting with Albanian President Bujar Nishani in the presidential complex Wednesday, Erdogan said he has just...

Hotels in Las Vegas and Washington owned by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday they have entered into collective bargaining agreements with more than 500 workers, who will drop claims that the hotels violated federal labor law. The four-year contracts effective Jan. 1 will...

A German regional minister Wednesday accused Tunisia of delaying for months the extradition of a man now wanted over the Berlin market attack, saying required papers had only just arrived, two days after the carnage. The asylum request launched by the man hunted by police, identified as Anis...

As the evacuation of civilians from the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo continues, one 65-year-old refugee mother's only wish is to see her family re-united and together once again. Mother-of-seven Nofa Mitar is just one among the millions of Syrians who sought refuge in Turkey five years ago...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere confirmed Wednesday that authorities have identified a new suspect in the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin. "There is a new suspect we are searching for – he is a suspect but not necessarily the assailant," he told reporters....