(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed and 15 more wounded by regime and sectarian militias bombing on al-Ghantou town in Homs province and by an ambush in al-Samalil village. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Homs countryside said 5 Syrian resistance...

The Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a swathe of eastern Aleppo from rebels on Monday in an accelerating attack that threatens to crush the opposition in its most important urban stronghold. Two rebel officials said the insurgents, facing fierce bombardment and ground...

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened to end the US thaw with Cuba unless Havana makes concessions on human rights and opening up its economy. "If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- A military source from inside regime forces confirmed that Russian warplanes are the ones targeted a Turkish forces convoy participating in Euphrates Shield operation against ISIS north of Syria on November 24 at the same date which Turkish forces downed Russian jet last...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Civil Defense in Aleppo announces Aleppo stricken city after fuel storage has completely run out and the volunteer rescuing group has lost all the vehicles and equipment needed to rescue civilians. The directorate in a recorded statement clarified that Aleppo is...

Real Madrid's James Rodriguez, the golden boy of Colombian football, has struggled to establish himself at Real Madrid since he burst into the limelight at the 2014 World Cup. However, with Toni Kroos, Alvaro Morata and Gareth Bale all out until next year with injuries, the door has opened...

Hundreds of pro-government Somali forces began moving toward the port town of Qandala Monday for an offensive against ISIS fighters who seized it last month, Qandala's mayor Jamac Mohamed Khurshe told Reuters. The pro-government forces includes militia fighters, soldiers form the...

Syrian regime's Foreign Ministry on Monday denounced comments by Qatar that it will continue to back rebels against Bashar Assad as merely an attempt "to raise the morale of the terrorist groups" in the face of army advances. Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani...

A group of lawyers are seeking to launch a criminal case in Germany against Syrian President Bashar Assad over alleged war crimes committed in the city of Aleppo. The lawyers on Monday presented a criminal complaint against Assad, which they are submitting to German federal prosecutors....

Spain's Interior Ministry says police have arrested four people suspected of having links to an illegal migration network believed to have been used by ISIS to move militants to Europe, including those involved in last year's Paris attacks. A ministry statement said the four had links with...

(Sky News)- The city of music has fallen respectfully silent. Havana, usually a noisy and colourful Caribbean capital, has put on its mourning clothes for the departed "maximum leader". If some are openly distraught, the more general mood is one of sombre reflection as Cubans honour the...

(Sky News)- A Syrian girl who has shared the horrors of living in Aleppo has revealed her home was destroyed and she narrowly escaped death as government forces battle to retake control of a district in the city. Seven-year-old Bana Alabed has been tweeting from the devastated city as...

OPEC was trying on Monday to rescue a deal to limit oil output as tensions grew among the producer group and non-OPEC member Russia, with top exporter Saudi Arabia saying markets would rebalance even without an agreement. OPEC experts started a meeting in Vienna at 0900 GMT and were due to...

The UN's expert on torture was Monday beginning a week-long visit to Turkey following claims prisoners have been ill-treated in the wake of the July failed coup. Nils Melzer, special rapporteur on torture, arrived in Turkey on Sunday and will speak with alleged victims and inspect detention...

Israel's air force targeted gunmen linked to ISIS in Syria overnight, the army said Monday, after they fired on an Israeli soldier in the occupied Golan Heights. "Overnight the (Israeli air force) targeted an abandoned UN building that has been used by the Islamic State as an operations...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Agencies)- Syrian regime forces have captured a key part of eastern Aleppo, splitting rebel-held territory. Both regime-run TV and the monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that the district of Sakhour had fallen to the Syrian army. The regime army...

Four Daesh terrorists have been neutralized in northern Syria during the Operation Euphrates Shield, according to the Turkish military.  Turkish Armed Forces announced Monday that the Free Syrian Army (FSA) seized control of the Khaliliyah, Ajami, and Shabviran villages. ...

The main hospital treating trauma victims from the battle for Mosul is overflowing with civilian and military casualties, according to a doctor there. Dr. Marwan Ghafuri of the West Irbil Hospital, the main triage center for trauma cases from the Mosul battle, said his facility is admitting...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Mohammed Rafae, commander of the military operations of pro-regime Liwa al-Quds militia, was killed in a sniper bullet on Sunday in the battleground city of Aleppo, activists said.   Rafae, known as al-Arrab or 'the Godfather' was killed in clashes between the...

Iraq's sectarian political leaders have plunged back into a dispute over the status of Shi'ite armed groups, undermining efforts to reunite the country as its troops press on with the assault of Mosul, Islamic State's biggest stronghold. Forty days into the biggest ground offensive in Iraq...