Syrian rebel groups have told the United States they will not leave Aleppo after Moscow called for talks with Washington over a full withdrawal of rebel fighters from the city's besieged eastern districts, a rebel official said on Sunday. Speaking to Reuters from Turkey, senior rebel...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's powerful militant supplier, the coastal province of Tartus, mourned in the past two weeks at least 28 officers and reservists killed in Aleppo and Hama battlefields, pro-Assad social media accounts reported. The coffins shipments have been a daily...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An armed group, including nearly 50 personnel, on Sunday has stormed a military headquarters for Jaish al-Islam and Fayalq al-Sham in al-Kalaseh neighborhood of Aleppo and looted a number of vehicles, ammunition, weapons and arrested several military personnel including a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 people have been killed on Saturday in regime air strikes on the northern town of Kafranble in Idlib province, Civil Defense said. The 4 strikes hit a crowded area next to an elementary school, the rescuing group said. In the southern countryside, a woman...

(The Express)- The British government will share Top Secret information with Turkey in a new agreement ratified in Parliament this week, amid escalating tensions between Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin. Talks between Britain and Ankara began in February this year and received...

(Eqtsad)- Head of Local Council in Jarablus city in northern Aleppo province said the council oversees Karakamis border crossing allocated for goods transport in coordination and cooperation with Turkish authorities, pointing out that the decision to increase the classification of the cross...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three Russian warplanes landed in the Russia-controlled Hmeimym airbase in Latakia province on Friday, carrying 300 military personnel specialized in removing mines, source said. The new deployment come a day after Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced from Turkey...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Executive director of Balloon of Life project said the likelihood that the jet downed recently over Aleppo city was brought down for real by a balloon launched towards it at night in the framework of the project. Mohamed Ameen Hamoud told Zaman al-Wasl the project personnel...

 Russia said on Saturday it was ready for talks with the United States about a withdrawal of all Syrian rebels from eastern Aleppo, where advances by the Russian-backed Syrian army and its allies threaten to deal a crushing blow to the rebellion. In just over a week, the army and allied...

Sergio Ramos's stoppage-time equalizer maintained Real Madrid's six-point lead at the top of La Liga as the European champions salvaged a 1-1 draw at Barcelona in Saturday's El Clasico. Luis Suarez looked to have breathed new life into the title race when he headed home the opener from...

ISIS militants have staged near simultaneous attacks on positions of state-sanctioned militias west and south of Iraq's northern city of Mosul, apparently taking advantage of bad weather conditions that normally disrupt air support, two militia officials said on Saturday. One official said...

Soldiers allied to the Western-backed Somali government said they killed seven insurgents from a faction loyal to ISIS in a clash in northern Somalia Saturday. The soldiers from the semi-autonomous region of Puntland are part of a force headed to the port town of Qandala, which has been...

The U.N. envoy for Syria said Saturday he hoped "some type of formula" could be found to avoid a "terrible battle" in Aleppo, where government forces and their allies are gaining ground in an attack aimed at taking back the whole city from rebels. Staffan de Mistura, speaking at a Rome...

Syrian regime forces have captured 60 percent of the area previously held by rebels in eastern Aleppo after gaining new ground on the city's eastern edge, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. At least seven plumes of smoke were seen rising from rebel-held areas of the city...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday Moscow was ready for talks with the United States about a complete withdrawal of all rebels from Syria's eastern Aleppo. Syrian regime forces have captured 60 percent of the area previously held by rebels in eastern Aleppo after gaining...

European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is convinced the fall of rebel-held areas of Aleppo to the government would not end the war in Syria, she said Saturday. "I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war," Mogherini said during a panel discussion at a...

A new outbreak of bird flu hit France's foie gras producers Friday just as a ban on exports outside Europe was about to be lifted in time for the crucial holiday period. The agriculture ministry said the outbreak of the "highly pathogenic" H5N8 strain of the virus was detected Thursday on a...

Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched in Seoul for the sixth-straight week Saturday to demand the ouster and arrest of scandal-hit President Park Geun-Hye ahead of an impeachment vote in parliament. The latest in a series of massive anti-Park demonstrations in the South Korean capital...

A U.S. Senate vote to extend the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) for 10 years shows the world that Washington cannot be relied upon to act on its commitments, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday. Iran has vowed to retaliate against the ISA extension, passed unanimously on...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump told Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte that Manila was conducting its deadly drug war "the right way," Duterte said Saturday, in stark contrast to the criticism he received from President Barack Obama. The Philippine president called Trump late Friday...