(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five children were wounded on Sunday when a 12-year-old boy threw a hand grenade on a school courtyard in northern Manbij city, eye-witness said. One of wounded students has lost his foot in the attack. Activists said the attack is believed to be carried out by the Islamic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Pro-regime news sites said at least 10 officers were killed in the past 48 hours on the battlefields of Hama province and Aleppo. General brigadier Ahmed al-Wadh, commander of the military operations in southern Hama province, was also killed. The regime army who...

(Eqtsad)- Negotiation between the Syrian regime and opposition factions in Khan al-Shih camp are ongoing after heavy military campaign by the regime for months, sources revealed.  During the military campaign, regime has recaptured the village of Deir Khobuyah next to Khan al-Shih,...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- In the building of regime military operations in Assad outskirt in Aleppo, a Syrian resistance fighter who stormed the builiding opened a group of drawers of an office beside a bed, and he saw what would not cross anyone’s mind. He found identification documents including...

Major General Rahim Safavi, Iranian Adviser for Military Affairs, said that thousands of Hezbollah terrorists have been killed in Syria and their number exceeds the number of Iranians killed there, while leaked posthumous statements of the Iranian Major General Hussein Hamdani, who was killed...

More than a dozen suspected members of Islamic State appeared under police protection in an Ankara courtroom on Monday accused of involvement in Turkey's deadliest suicide bombing, which killed more than 100 people in the capital just over a year ago. The defendants were brought into the...

Roger Federer has fallen outside the world's top 10 for the first time since 2002 but he could still win another grand slam title, according to former great Stefan Edberg. While Andy Murray's rise to world number one was the main talking point of Monday's new ATP rankings, 17-times major...

(The Guardian)- Dr Zaher Sahloul has worked in Aleppo and seen the horrific affect of airstrikes. He says incidents like that which left Omran Daqneesh stunned and bloodied are all too common in a city under siege The pictures of the injured five-year old Omran Daqneesh have shocked the...

Iraqi forces retook a key town from the Islamic State group Monday, a crucial objective on the southern front of the offensive to wrest back the city of Mosul. Federal police, army and elite interior ministry forces established full control over Hamam al-Alil, the last town of note on the...

(The Daily Star)- The Kremlin said Monday Russia's air force would stick to the cease-fire in Syria's Aleppo unless militants launch an offensive. "The (Russian) president deems a regime when Russian air forces don't carry out strikes on eastern Aleppo as reasonable if militants don't start...

Turkey told the head of the U.S. military, Joseph Dunford, during his visit this weekend that Ankara's priority in Syria is driving the Kurdish YPG militia from the town of Manbij, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Monday. Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting, Kurtulmus...

Islamic State militants have set off five car bombs targeting U.S.-backed Syrian armed groups attacking Raqqa, a Kurdish source said on Monday, saying the fight to drive IS from its stronghold city would "not be easy". The operation by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), including the...

(Zaman AL Wasl)- The regime’s ِair-forces brigade 24 has been defeated in Deir Ezzor, which pushed the regime to support it with two MIG-21 warplanes brought from Hama Military airport last week, sources reported to Zaman al-Wasl. A well informed source inside the regime Air-forces mentioned...

German prosecutors said Monday they have launched a preliminary investigation after receiving a complaint alleging that top Facebook bosses including founder Mark Zuckerberg are condoning hate speech on the online social network. "A complaint has been filed by a lawyer that accuses, among...

(The Daily Star)- The United Nations is investigating claims that up to 32 civilians were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the volatile Afghan province of Kunduz last week, calling any loss of civilian life "unacceptable." The strike early last Thursday triggered angry protests in Kunduz, with...

 Egypt will buy from global oil markets in November after Saudi Aramco halted deliveries for a second month, an oil ministry official said Monday. The move by the Saudi oil giant came as the two countries disagreed over Syria's conflict, with Egypt edging closer to Russia, a key backer...

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces attacked an ISIS-held town northeast of Mosul Monday, trying to clear a pocket of militants outside the city while Iraqi troops wage a fierce urban war with the extremists in its eastern neighborhoods. The first waves of a 2,000-strong peshmerga force entered...

Floods have killed 15 people in central Vietnam after a week of torrential rains. Downpours across 10 provinces have submerged 41,000 houses and 12,000 hectares of farmland, the government’s Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention reported Monday. Six people are also...

 The men receive a hero's welcome as they step off the green buses in Syria's Idlib province with guns slung over their shoulders, having been forced to leave besieged and bombarded towns and cities as part of local truce deals with the government in Damascus. For more than two years...

A U.S.-backed assault on Raqqa, ISIS's de facto capital in Syria, is unlikely to pierce the city itself before President Barack Obama leaves office in January, denying him the chance to claim the end of the group's "caliphate" as part of his legacy. Although a U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian...