Syrian opposition groups said an evacuation of rebel-held areas of Aleppo was back on track and expected to begin early on Thursday, but uncertainty persisted as a media outlet run by Lebanon's Hezbollah said truce talks faced "big complications". Such an exodus would end years of...

One of the two suicide bombers in an attack on an Istanbul soccer stadium last weekend had come from Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. The twin attacks in Istanbul on Saturday - involving a suicide bomber on foot and another in a car - killed 44 people,...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke by phone on Wednesday with his Russian, Turkish and Qatari counterparts, stressing the need to continue seeking a ceasefire for the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo and the resumption of political talks to end the war. State Department spokesman John...

(Al Jazeera)- The UN's West Africa envoy says Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh must step down when his mandate ends in January and would be "strongly sanctioned" if he sought to remain in power. Long-ruling Jammeh lost the election to little-known businessman Adama Barrow on December 1 and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 14 thousand young men are wanted for mandatory standby military service in the provinces of Tartus and Latakia. They are going to be informed and will join the service voluntarily or by force next week, sources reported.  The source mentioned that ages of...

The top U.S. general leading the fight against ISIS says the militants got control of military equipment and weapons, possibly including air defense equipment, when they recaptured the Syrian town of Palmyra. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend says Russian forces and the Syrian government took their...

Up to a thousand people gathered Wednesday in Sarajevo - the Bosnian city that survived a brutal 44-month siege during the Balkan wars of the 1990s - to rally against the carnage in Syria. Representatives of Bosnia's Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox Christian and Jewish communities said they felt...

Syria's regime forces and their allies have almost certainly violated international law and probably committed war crimes by the latest bombardment of civilians hoping to be evacuated from eastern Aleppo, the U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday. "The Syrian Government has a clear...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Weather in Lebanon has been affected on Wednesday by a storm coming from eastern Europe according to what Agricultural Scientific research institution in Lebanon said. The institution called the storm Noel. Snow falls affected Irsal which hosts nearly 100000...

U.N. war crimes investigators said Wednesday the Syrian government bore the main responsibility for preventing any attacks and reprisals in eastern Aleppo and that it must hold to account any troops or allied forces committing violations. In a statement, the United Nations Commission of...

Factories churning out tens of thousands of munitions and an entire street turned into a conveyor belt for car bombs: advances by Iraqi forces around Mosul have laid bare the scale of the Islamic State group's arms industry. In the more than two years since it seized control over swathes of...

When a group of friends took their cameras to the streets of Damascus to document Syria's 2011 uprising, they could not have foretold how events would spiral out of control and change their lives forever. Obaidah Zytoon, a radio host with big dreams for her country, was full of hope for...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has vowed to prevent other nations from intervening in neighboring Yemen, where it has been at war with Iranian-backed Shiite rebels since March 2015. The televised speech at the start of a meeting of his top advisory council on Wednesday included no major policy...

Nearly 1,000 people from Aleppo evacuated overnight after a ceasefire deal are held at an Iranian militia checkpoint outside the city, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency quoted the head of the Turkish Red Crescent as saying on Wednesday. "These people had passed the Russian check point,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iranian militias in the eastern neighborhoods in Aleppo foiled the ceasefire agreement announced on Tuesday which states to evacuate all armed men, civilians, and injured from the eastern neighborhoods in Aleppo to Idlib city. The head of the Turkish Red Crescent as...

The United Nations Human Rights Council is meeting to discuss the situation in South Sudan, with the world body's top human rights official saying there's still time for action to avoid a "worst-case scenario" in the five-year-old country. Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner...

Turkey is talking to Russia and Iran to try to ensure a ceasefire in Aleppo holds and civilians and rebel fighters can be evacuated, despite efforts by the Syrian government to prevent it, Turkey's foreign minister said on Wednesday. The ceasefire, brokered on Tuesday by Turkey and Russia,...

 Canadian actor Alan Thicke, best known for his role as the dad in 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains" and as the father of singer Robin Thicke, has died, his publicity agency said on Twitter. He was 69. Thicke, who became a household name after starring as psychiatrist Jason Seaver in the US...

The Islamic State group was manufacturing weapons in and around Mosul on an industrial scale with products largely purchased in bulk from Turkey, according to a report published by an arms research group Wednesday. The findings show that IS maintained a "robust and reliable" supply chain...

(Al Jazeera)- South Korean MPs are holding a hearing to investigate why impeached President Park Geun-hye went "missing" during a major ferry disaster in 2014 - the latest trouble to hit the pressured leader. Seven hours elapsed between the first news reports that a ferry carrying hundreds...