( BBC )- Hasan Hasanovic was standing in front of his house in Srebrenica when he saw the Bosnian Serb soldiers coming in. The only way to survive was to run. That was on 11 July 1995. Srebrenica had been declared a safe area for civilians by the United Nations two years earlier. Bosnian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- It seems that bringing volunteers to the regime's newly-formed militia, the Fifth Corps, is still stumbling. Regime did not take a headquarter for it although more than 3 weeks have passed on the launch of the project whose members will take monthly salaries tripling those...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 352  regime army soldiers and allied militants have been killed in a week of intense fighting with the Islamic State in the eastern countryside of Homs province as the radical group recaptured the historic city of Palmyra, the group-run news agency Amaq reported....

Hundreds marched through Ankara Thursday in protest at Russian and Iranian involvement in the siege of Aleppo, the latest in a series of demonstrations in Europe over the Syria crisis. Up to 800 people joined the demonstration, with some chanting "Aleppo is the world's shame" outside the...

Gulf Arab countries condemned the Syrian government's handling of a ceasefire and evacuation in Aleppo and called on Thursday for civilians trying to flee the war-torn city to be protected. An emergency meeting of Arab League representatives convened at Qatar's request discussed the...

French President Francois Hollande accused Russia on Thursday of reneging on its pledges in Syria, as the mayor of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo appealed to Europe to send monitors to help ensure the safety of civilians. "I have been talking constantly to Russia, and Russia makes...

Top state agencies and civil aid groups have completed preparations to evacuate civilians from the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo to Turkey’s border province of Hatay, Turkish Red Crescent official said Thursday. Under the coordination of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency...

The evacuation of 5,000 Syrian rebels and their family members from eastern Aleppo has begun, the TASS news agency cited the Russian defense ministry as saying on Thursday. A Russian military official was quoted as saying the rebels and their families would be evacuated via a humanitarian...

Kuwait's new oil minister said Thursday he expects crude prices to climb to $60 a barrel as output cuts agreed by OPEC and non-OPEC producers take hold next year. Essam al-Marzouk gave no timeframe for his projection, saying only that he was optimistic producers would comply with the agreed...

An attempt to evacuate people in need of medical attention from rebel-held eastern Aleppo stalled on Thursday when fighters loyal to the Syrian government fired on the convoy, wounding three, the head of the ambulance service said. The vehicles had intended to leave under a deal to evacuate...

(Sky News)- Yahoo says it believes more than one billion user accounts may have had data stolen in a cyberattack in 2013. It is separate to a hack in 2014, revealed this September, in which 500 million accounts were affected. The technology giant made the latest discovery as it was...

Civilians desperately hoping to flee besieged areas of eastern Aleppo found their convoy under fire as a planned evacuation of rebel-held areas appeared under threat, activists in the Syrian city claimed. The alleged attack happened during a tenuous ceasefire that had been announced. Rebels...

In an unexpected reversal, President Barack Obama declined to sign a renewal of sanctions against Iran but let it become law anyway, in an apparent bid to alleviate Tehran’s concerns that the U.S. is backsliding on the nuclear deal. Although the White House had said that Obama was expected...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have circulated photo of Aleppo's ceasefire mediator who have been accused of betraying the Syrian rebels in putting the war-torn city on a plate of gold for the regime, Russia and Iran. A copy of the agreement, obtained by Zaman al-Wasl, shows 4 signatures only; one...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Japan on Thursday for a two-day summit that marks his first official visit to a G-7 country since Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea. His Rossiya Airlines plane touched down at 4:50 p.m. at Yamaguchi Ube Airport on the coast of western Japan, two...

Turkish fighter jets have “neutralized” 20 Daesh terrorists and hit dozens of other terrorist targets in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military said on Thursday. In an air operation targeting Daesh-held buildings in northern Syria, Turkish jets hit 59...

Residents of a wildcat Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday rejected a proposal to leave voluntarily, raising fears of violence as an evacuation deadline nears. The Amona outpost, home to some 40 families, is under a High Court order to be evacuated by December 25 since it...

Egypt executed prominent Islamist fighter Adel Habara on Thursday, state media said, days after a top court rejected his final appeal and in defiance of militant threats to ignite "a volcano of jihad" across the country. Habara, 40, was sentenced to death in 2014 for killing 25 army...

Turkish warplanes killed 20 ISIS fighters and destroyed seven buildings and one defensive position used by the militants over the last 24 hours in its operations in northern Syria, Turkey's military said on Thursday. The Turkish army and Syrian rebel forces launched the "Euphrates Shield"...

The White House on Wednesday criticized claims that the U.S. is standing idly by as the Syrian city of Aleppo falls to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces. "It's offensive to suggest that somehow the United States government and the world is not doing anything," spokesman Josh Earnest...