(Zaman Al Wasl)- A special source confirmed that the regime security forces have posted snipers on the rooftops opposite the central prison in Tartus to target any movement within the prison, and reinforced the security forces surrounding the prison. The source said to Zaman al-Wasl that the...

(Sky News)- At least 19 people have been killed and 50 others were injured when two trains carrying hundreds of passengers collided in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Horrified witnesses described how one train sped into Quaidabad station and rammed into another train which was stationary at...

(Wall Street Journal)- Egypt’s central bank said Thursday it would freely float the local currency, in a move aimed at eliminating a flourishing black market for dollars after the cash-strapped government secured loans to boost its reserves. The National Bank of Egypt, the country’s biggest...

(Middle East Eye)- At least 170,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey since refugees started coming into the country from Syria, a Turkish aid agency said on Wednesday. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) said it also provided special meal options to pregnant or...

(Time)- The Russian president on Wednesday offered a new unilateral humanitarian pause for Syria’s war-ravaged Aleppo, urging rebels to use it to leave the city’s eastern, besieged districts. The Syrian rebels quickly dismissed Vladimir Putin’s initiative. Later in the day, at least eight...

 Extremist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on his fighters to resist as Iraqi forces were poised Thursday to enter the city of Mosul where he declared a "caliphate" two years ago. The appeal was made in an audio recording released on the Internet and purported to be by the elusive...

Construction of a concrete wall along the Turkish-Syrian border will be completed in the first half of 2017, Turkey's Defense Minister Fikri Isik said Wednesday. Speaking during a visit of the border units in the southern province of Hatay, Isik said that almost 270 kilometers (167 miles) of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian resistance forces launched counter attack on regime army and allied militias in Aleppo city, rocking a checkpoint in the New Aleppo suburbs with an explosive-laden vehicle, activists said Thursday. Abu Hisham Anas, a former member in Fateh al-Sham’s media office,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A new militia has been formed and backed by the Syrian Air Intelligence in the southern province of Sweida, the predominantly Druze province? source told Zaman al-Wasl. The initial number will be 27,000 militants mostly from whom escaped conscription. The Lebanese Hezbollah...

The most popular object in Gogjali Wednesday was the electric hair clipper a member of the Iraqi special forces who retook the village from jihadists gave the residents. On the steps leading to the mosque, one man revelled in his first shave in two years and sheared off thick tufts from the...

Statements Donald Trump has made during his presidential run should generally be admissible in an upcoming civil trial over alleged fraud at his Trump University venture, lawyers for the plaintiffs said in a court filing late on Tuesday. Some of the statements by the Republican nominee may...

(Zama, Al Wasl)- A Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army on Wednesday has recaptured a border town in Aleppo province from the Islamic State, activist said. The ISIS-run Amaq new agency said earlier Wednesday that the radical group fighters had taken control of Akhtarin town near the Turkish border,...

 Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday threatened to cut millions of dollars in state funding for a children's foundation chaired by his cellist friend Sergei Roldugin, named by the Panama Papers as head of an offshore empire. Roldugin was said in the Panama Papers – leaked in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As changing distribution of power within the city of Aleppo appeared to have stopped, western and Arab media began speaking about a stop in the Great Epic Battle of Aleppo in conjunction with a Turkish newspaper publishing leaked documents of an American-Russian deal about...

The family of Austin Tice, a US journalist held captive in Syria since 2012, renewed calls Wednesday for his release as a banner highlighting his case was unveiled by press freedom groups. The #FreeAustinTice banner was attached to the facade of the Newseum, a museum focused on news media...

 At least 12 migrants died off the coast of Libya Wednesday after they put to sea in stormy weather, the Italian coastguard said, adding that many others might have died in the incident. Some 29 people were rescued when their rubber dinghy started to take in water 25 miles (40 km) north...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Wednesday accused Syrian government troops of committing "crimes against humanity" that could not be overlooked. Human rights groups and Western countries have previously accused Syria's army, backed by Russia's air force, of targeting hospitals, bakeries and...

The Pentagon says a U.S. airstrike in Syria this month killed what the Defense Department describes as a senior al-Qaeda leader who once had ties to Osama bin Laden. A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, identifies the target as Haydar Kirkan. The spokesman says Kirkan oversaw the...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday rejected Russian demands that they withdraw from Aleppo by Friday evening, an official in one insurgent faction said. "This is completely out of the question. We will not give up the city of Aleppo to the Russians and we won't surrender," Zakaria Malahifji of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians were killed on Wednesday when regime warplanes hit a marketplace in Saraqeb town in northern Idlib province, local media center said.