(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Turkish army has dipped further in a Syrian border area, opening a route in depth of 400 near Bab al-Hawa border crossing, residents told Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday. People the village of Aqrabat said the road passed through the land known as Manzalat abdul-Hai, and the...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- New forced displacement operation started on Wednesday in Moadamiyet al-Sham, a western suburb of Damascus, where about 5000 people from the town and other displaced population from Daraya, Kafarsouseh and al-Mazeh will leave towards Idlib province, local sources reported....

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday it was Turkey’s duty “to its brothers to blow out the fire in Aleppo". Addressing elected neighborhood representatives from around Turkey at the presidential complex in Ankara, Erdogan said at least “one million people would flock to Turkey if an...

Millions of people in the Philippines were on high alert Wednesday for one of the strongest typhoons to ever hit the disaster-battered country, with authorities warning of giant storm surges and destructive winds. Super Typhoon Haima was forecast to hit remote communities in the far north of...

(theguardian)- Thousands of civilians have fled Mosul and its surrounding region to crowded refugee camps in war-torn Syria, aid officials have said, as Iraqi forces continued to advance on the most populous city under Islamic State control. At least 5,000 people, mostly women and children,...

(theguardian)- Paid paternity leave in Spain is to be increased to 16 weeks to give men parity with women, under new measures agreed by parliament. Fathers are currently entitled to 13 consecutive days off work, starting two days prior to the birth, adoption or fostering of a child. This...

(The Daily Star)- Russia on Wednesday warned the US-led coalition against driving extremists from Iraq to Syria in the offensive to recapture Mosul from ISIS. "It is necessary not to drive terrorists from one country to the other but to destroy them on the spot," the chief of Russia's...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad told a Swiss TV station that government forces had to rid the city of Aleppo of rebel "terrorists" under its constitutional mandate to protect the civilian population. "That's our mission, according to the constitution, according to the law, that we have to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “When we found no word to describe the tragic situation because the victim is a baby, tears disappear and heart feel the pain”, in these words, an activist described the situation of the al-Rakban camp when he reported the story of 10-month-old baby Fadia al-khalid who died...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi forces prepared to retake the country's largest Christian town from ISIS Wednesday, a key milestone in their progress towards the extremists' main hub of Mosul. News of the move to recapture Qaraqosh sparked jubilation among Christians who had fled the town, with...

Package delivery company FedEx Corp (FDX.N) said on Tuesday it would invest 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) to double the capacity of its logistics activities at Charles de Gaulle International Airport in the Paris suburb of Roissy. The initial investment by the U.S-listed firm will amount...

French, Russian and German leaders will meet in Berlin for talks on Syria Wednesday ahead of a brief truce in Aleppo backed by Moscow in the face of mounting criticism for its part in a brutal regime offensive. The meeting comes a day after the Kremlin announced that Russian and Syrian air...

(The Daily Star)- Egypt will seek to end procurement of wheat to open air silos by next year's buying season, Supply Minister Mohamed Ali El-Sheikh said Wednesday. A committee composed of officials from the supply, agriculture and finance ministries had been established to determine the...

Daesh has been ousted from five villages in northern Syria as part of Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military said in a statement Wednesday. According to Turkish Armed Forces, the terrorist group lost the villages of Mazraat al-Uyun, Beyt Misto, Tel Malid, Jisr al-Samukah...

Anti-terrorist police arrested 20 Daesh suspects in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on Wednesday, a police official said. The suspects were rounded up in raids launched around 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT) at four locations across the province and documents were seized, the official...

A Shi'ite paramilitary force said late on Tuesday it will support the Iraqi army's offensive on Mosul, Islamic State's last major stronghold in Iraq, raising the risk of sectarian strife in the mainly Sunni region. The Popular Mobilization Force (PMF), a coalition of mostly Iranian-trained...

The Syrian army and its allies see a risk that Islamic State will regroup in eastern Syria as it is forced from the Iraqi city of Mosul in a U.S.-backed operation, posing new risks for President Bashar al-Assad. Both the Syrian army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah have warned of what they...

Reporting by Tareq Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- Several students from Uqba Bin Nafi School entered hospital on Monday because of an assault by father of student Hisham al-Khateeb with a group of persons with white arms. The assault on the students caused severe bruises and one student was...

(theguardian)- The US and the UK have rejected a Russian and Syrian offer of a temporary “pause” on airstrikes in Aleppo as the basis for reopening talks, saying there has to be a credible and durable ceasefire that should initially last as long as 48 hours. Moscow had announced a temporary...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Near the Syrian border line with occupied Golan Heights the Israeli sewage flows into dams in Quneitera province. This sewage system was prepared and build years before the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in complete coordination of the regime and its armed forces...