(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 35 fires have broken out in forests of the coastal Latakia and Tartus provinces since Saturday, and dozens are still on till writing the news. And between an hour and another, another fire starts, as the dry weather helped in spreading fire. Fire brigade in Latakia,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmed al-Darbo, 38-year-old, is preparing himself with 7 members of his family to leave Qamishli, Northern of Hasaka to Turkey, via a long illegal route at a cost of $2000, amid unprecedented soaring of food prices. "Moreover, we still suffer of the sugar crisis in towns and...

The Syrian regime has demanded rebels pull out of East Aleppo and and civilians leave the area, as Damascus continued with an offensive to recapture the city's opposition-held sector. The army, which has besieged the east for months, also demanded that rebels distribute food to civilians,...

More than 1,000 Iranian fighters have been killed in Syria since Tehran began its intervention in the country to support the Assad regime five years ago, an Iranian official announced Tuesday. "The total number of casualties sustained so far now exceeds 1,000," Mohamed Ali Shahidi Mahallati,...

Russian tankers have smuggled jet fuel to Syria through EU waters, bolstering military supplies to a war-torn country where Moscow is carrying out air strikes in support of the government, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. At least two Russian-flagged ships made deliveries -...

(Zaman, Al Wasl)- First cross-line convoy in November entered the hard-to-reach town of Rastan in central Homs province with aid for 107,500 people, U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday. Local activists said 51 vehicles carrying food rations entered the...

In the modern era of presidential politics, no candidate has ever won the popular vote by more than Hillary Clinton did this year, yet still managed to lose the Electoral College. In that sense, 2016 was a historic split: Donald Trump won the presidency by as much as 74 electoral votes...

Containers of a chemical suspected to be chlorine were dropped by helicopters on rebel-held east Aleppo on Tuesday, causing breathing difficulties in some people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the local health authority said. The Britain-based war monitor said its network of...

The United Nations on Tuesday announced a resumption of aid to some 85,000 Syrian refugees stranded on Jordan's border with war-torn Syria in what Amman has declared a military zone. The kingdom closed the border on June 21, halting aid deliveries to a makeshift camp, after a bombing claimed...

 U.K.-based pressure group has delivered a thousands-strong petition to Myanmar’s London embassy calling on the country’s government to confront the crisis plaguing the Rohingya minority. Burma Campaign U.K. said Tuesday it delivered 3,164 signatures on a petition calling on Myanmar’s...

In the past six months, the number of people living under siege in Syria has doubled. Today there are almost one million Syrians being “isolated, starved, bombed and denied medical attention and humanitarian assistance.” The latest figures from the UN come a week after deadly airstrikes by...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians were killed in the northern countryside of Hama province when regime warplanes hit the town of Latamneh with five vacuum missiles, local activists said Tuesday. The rebel-held countryside of central Homs province has been under severe siege along with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime security personnel arrested tens of men from cities in the Syrian coast Latakia, Jableh, Banyas, and Tartus in a new arrest campaign included what regime checkpoints could arrest of men whose age between 18 and 40 and who are capable of using weapons. The arrest...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Caravan, an artistic educational project in a form of “mobile theatre” talks about suffering of Syrian refugees in Lebanon via using different presentation technique besides music, lighting and sceneries. The project is funded by the European...

Turkey Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the main Syrian Kurdish political party over a deadly bombing in Ankara in February, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Arrest warrants were issued for the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Salih Muslim as well...

Nine Daesh militants were killed and four others injured in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike late Monday in northern Mosul, according to an Iraqi police officer. Five airstrikes targeted a Daesh military post, a training site and an ambulance carrying Daesh militants in northern Mosul, colonel...

All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico never quite understood how Donald Trump's great wall could ever be much more than campaign rhetoric. Erecting a concrete barrier across the entire 1,954-mile...

Britain should stay as closely connected to Europe's common market as it can after it leaves the European Union, the trade minister of EU outsider Norway said Tuesday. "Britain is perhaps our most important economic partner. We want the future cooperation and trade conditions to be as good...

Iran said Tuesday it had sent 11 metric tons of heavy water to Oman as part of its obligations under last year's nuclear deal with world powers. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said the heavy water has been sold to an unnamed third country. Heavy water is not...

At least 141 civilians, including 18 children, have been killed in a week of renewed bombardment on the rebel-held eastern half of Aleppo which has devastated its hospitals, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday. The Britain-based pro-opposition group said it had documented...