(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ghadir, a young girl from the Damascus northeastern suburb of Douma, had had her right leg amputated by regime’s shelling, in the same time she lost her mother and three brothers. Moreover, after having a prostheses fixed, she was injured by cluster bombs hit Douma. Ghadir...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took Saturday 10 villages and farms from ISIS near al-Tabaqa in Raqqa province, The U.S.-backed group said in statement . SDF that led by Democratic Union Party (PYD) siad it had captured villages of Bur Sinjar Shamali, Bur Sinjar...

A number of Islamist rebel groups in the Syrian town of Termanin, northern Idlib province, announced a new merger to unify rebel factions on Saturday. In a brief statement seen by The New Arab, the town’s rebel groups said: “we the military factions in the city of Termanin announce our unity...

A new deal is being negotiated to complete the evacuation of rebel-held areas of Syria's east Aleppo which ground to a halt on Friday after demands from pro-government forces that people also be moved out of two villages besieged by insurgents. A Syrian rebel official and a government...

The Palestinian Hamas group in Gaza blamed Israel on Saturday for the killing in Tunisia this week of a Tunisian national it described as one of its drone experts, and threatened retaliation. Hamas's armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said Mohammed Zawari, who was gunned down near the city of...

At least 38 ISIS fighters have been killed in U.S.-led coalition air strikes this week near Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, a monitor said on Saturday. The militants retook Palmyra in central Syria on December 11, just eight months after the army backed by Russia drove them out. On...

(Al-Monitor)- In November, Syrian refugee Anas Amir Mohammed Agha Qatarji opened a restaurant in the market of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. He named it Jar al-Qalaa II, in memory of Jar al-Qalaa, the restaurant he ran in Aleppo’s Old City before it was destroyed during the Syrian...

Frederic C. Hof is director of the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. He advised Hillary Clinton on Syria at the State Department in 2012. Some 70 months ago, unarmed, ordinary Syrians rose peacefully against a regime whose incompetence and corruption they had come...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 32 army officers from the coastal city of Tartus have been killed since the beginning of December in Palmyra and Aleppo battlefields, source in the military police told Zaman al-Wasl. The death toll included 9 senior officers as many fellows still missing, source...

Dozens of nationalist protestors Saturday stormed the headquarters of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the central Turkish city of Kayseri after an attack that left 13 soldiers dead, images showed. The protesters broke into the building where the office is located,...

(New York Times)- For months, the bodies have been piling up in eastern Aleppo as the buildings have come down, pulverized by Syrian and Russian jets, burying residents who could not flee in avalanches of bricks and mortar. And now it is almost over, not because diplomats reached a deal in...

All civilians must be allowed out of east Aleppo and Syria's war must stop immediately to prevent the city's suffering being repeated elsewhere, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said in a statement Saturday. "There is grave risk now that such displacement and suffering will...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) asked Syria's warring parties to quickly agree on a plan to evacuate people from east Aleppo and provide "solid" safety guarantees of Saturday, a day after the evacuation stalled Friday. "We're ready to resume facilitating the evacuation...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian social media accounts circulated images of an identity card for displaced persons who have guarantors from the town of Jarjanaz in Idlib countryside. The identity card, which came into use based on the cooperation of the town Local Council and the Free Jarjanaz Police...

Fresh photos have showed the presence of Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani during the evacuation of civilians trapped in war-battered Aleppo city in northern Syria. Earlier this week, Syrian opposition forces in eastern Aleppo reached a ceasefire deal with President...

(Al Jazeera)- A series of public hearings for victims of torture and human rights violations is being heard in Tunisia in an apparent attempt to address mistakes of the past. Tunisia’s Truth and Dignity Commission investigated crimes and abuses dating back to 1955, an unprecedented step....

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has harshly criticized U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's recent comments about Iran posing a threat to the region. In remarks published on his website Saturday, Khamenei called the U.K "a source of evil and misery for the peoples of the region"...

A total of 55 people were being treated in hospital after a car bomb attack on a bus in the central Turkish city of Kayseri Saturday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said, an attack the military has said killed 13. Soylu, who was speaking at a joint news conference with the health minister,...

An agreement was reached Saturday to allow "humanitarian cases" to leave two besieged government-held Shiite villages in northwestern Syria, a step that would allow the resumption of civilian and rebel evacuations from eastern Aleppo which were suspended a day earlier, Hezbollah's media arm and...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has defended the use of video replays despite a shaky debut for the new system at the Club World Cup. The replay system allows referees to halt games to review footage of "game-changing decisions", but its introduction has had a mixed reaction from players and...