(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's regime decided to transform the “reconciliation” experience which it used to call it “return to the lap of homeland” to Europe announcing the formation of “Central Committee for Popular Reconciliation in Europe”. Faisal Qashasha who named himself the “head of main...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime continued Tuesday its deadly aerial bombing on the battleground city of Aleppo, killing at least 25 civilians in Bab al-Nairab neighborhood, Civil Defense said, as the Assad regime and its allies try to build on major gains in the city in recent days. The strikes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The besieged neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs city on Tuesday has witnessed a careful calmness in the first day of the truce, activists said. Residents from inside the neighborhood told Zaman al-Wasl that life in besieged al-Waer is still semi-paralyzed as residents are still...

French investigators have tried and failed - again -to persuade Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam to talk to anti-terrorism investigators. Paris prosecutor's office spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said Abdeslam was brought before an anti-terrorism judge Tuesday for a new interrogation...

Syrian rebels were fighting pro-government militias on the southeastern edge of east Aleppo's opposition-held enclave on Tuesday, a rebel official said, as Damascus and its allies try to build on major gains in the city in recent days. A major assault by government forces backed by allied...

Embattled South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that she would allow the National Assembly to determine her fate, signaling that she would resign over a corruption and influence-peddling scandal if lawmakers so demanded. Relinquishing her previously defiant tone, Park struck a...

(Al Jazeera)- Syria's rebels lost all of the northern neighbourhoods of their stronghold in east Aleppo on Monday, as the army made significant advances in its offensive to recapture the entire city. The government gains have prompted an exodus of thousands of desperate civilians, some...

Turkey's nationalist opposition has made "significant progress" in talks with the ruling AK Party on its planned constitutional reform bill, the leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, Devlet Bahceli also said he believed the bill - which would...

The United Nations said on Tuesday there were indications that poorer families in Mosul are struggling to feed themselves as food prices increase following the U.S.-backed offensive on the Islamic State-held city in northern Iraq. "Key informants are telling us that poor families are...

(The Daily Star)- French foreign affairs minister Jean-Marc Ayrault called on Tuesday for an immediate United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, which has been devastated by fighting. "More than ever before, we need to urgently put in...

A plane carrying 72 passengers crashed near Medellin in Colombia while en route from Santa Cruz city in Bolivia on Tuesday, according to Colombian airport authorities. The official Twitter account of the Jose Maria Cordova International Airport in Rionegro said the passengers included...

(The Independent)- The Turkish government has a secret plan to allow 3,000 refugees to sail to Greece every day, intelligence officials have claimed. Greek analysts claim thousands of dinghies and motorboats have massed along the Turkish coast as the refugee deal agreed between Ankara and...

Leaders of Cuba's leftist allies and other developing countries descend on Havana on Tuesday for a mass rally commemorating Fidel Castro, the rebel who seized power in a 1959 revolution and ruled the island for half a century. Castro, who ceded control to his younger brother Raul Castro a...

At a supermarket cash register in Zaatari refugee camp, a shopper looks into a small screen as a device scans her iris. The machine checks the customer’s identity before allowing her to complete the purchase without cash, e-cards or vouchers. Some 76,000 Syrian refugees at the sprawling camp...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime militias and Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) monopolize the most important trinity in peoples’ lives; water, electricity and bread. This became a method to pressure the population and to lure them into joining these militias to militarize the society. The ones who...

Experts and elected officials on Monday dismissed Donald Trump's claim that "millions" of Americans voted illegally on Election Day, as the Green Party redoubled efforts to organize ballot recounts in three key swing states. The Republican billionaire's shock victory on November 8 saw him...

Prominent Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has made recommendations to President Fuad Masum and Parliament Speaker Salim al-Jabouri for reforming the Hashd al-Shaabi, according to statements issued Monday by the offices of both officials. The Hashd al-Shaabi is an umbrella group of Shia...

An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapons at a U.S. Navy helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two U.S. defense officials told Reuters on Monday, an action they described as "unsafe and unprofessional." The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity,...

Every morning, Syrian trucks roll up to a car park near a Turkish border crossing, ready to take a consignment of UN aid back inside the war-torn country. But so far the cargo cannot reach the area where it is needed most -- the besieged rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo where tens of...

The assailant who car-rammed and stabbed pedestrians at Ohio State University Monday, injuring nine before he was shot dead by police, was a young man of Somali descent, U.S. media reported. CBS News quoted a federal law enforcement official as saying the suspect "has been tentatively...