Saudi Arabia is prepared to agree to a ceasefire in Yemen if the Iran-allied Houthis agree, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Monday, adding that he was skeptical about efforts for peace after previous ceasefire attempts had failed. The Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen has...

(Independent)- Syria’s army and Hezbollah and Iranian allies are preparing for a massive invasion by thousands of Isis fighters who will be driven out of Iraq when Mosul falls. The real purpose behind the much-trumpeted US-planned "liberation" of the Iraqi city, the Syrian military suspect, is...

(The Daily Star)- Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Monday that Riyadh had urged the Iraqi government not to let Shiite militias enter Mosul, fearing "mass atrocities." As Iraqi forces launched an offensive aimed at retaking the country's second city from ISIS, Jubeir warned against...

Russian and Syrian armed forces will pause attacks on the Syrian city of Aleppo for eight hours on Thursday to allow civilians and rebels to leave the city, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Monday. But Moscow ruled out a lasting ceasefire, a step that Western governments have been...

(Eqtsad)- One of the most tragic outcomes of Syria's war is the rising number of widows who lost their husbands  on the battlefields. Ahmed al-Ali, social expert explained: “there are many social and economical obstacles facing widows these days, one of them and the most important is...

The European Union on Monday strongly condemned Russia for the bombardment of the Syrian city of Aleppo, saying devastating air strikes by Moscow and Damascus could amount to war crimes. EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg also warned that the 28-nation bloc could impose additional...

Up to 100,000 Iraqis may flee to Syria and Turkey to escape the Iraqi government's assault aimed at ousting Islamic State from the northern city of Mosul, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Monday. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees issued an appeal for an additional $61...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- One person has been killed and scores injured in aerial bombing Monday on Idlib province whereas a member of Ahrar al-Shaam movement was killed and scores injured by a car bomb targeted a checkpoint for the movement south of Idlib, activists said. The activists reported that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fourteen members of the same family were killed in a regime air strike on eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Assad army pursued its Russian-backed campaign to capture opposition-held areas of the city. A list of the dead published by the Civil...

Dozens of civilians were killed as air strikes flattened residential buildings in rebel-held east Aleppo Monday, despite Western warnings of sanctions against Syria and Russia over attacks on the city. Once Syria's thriving commercial hub, Aleppo has been ravaged by bombing raids and...

(The Daily Star)- A suicide driver detonated a car packed with explosives at a security check-point south of Baghdad Monday, killing ten people and wounding 25, police and medical sources said. The blast happened as a convoy of Shi'ite paramilitary fighters drove past the check-point in...

(The Daily Star)- Iran has rejected remarks by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that its policies in Syria and Yemen are blocking efforts to encourage banks to do business with it. In an interview published Friday, Kerry told Foreign Affairs magazine that Iranian support for Syrian...

(Now)- A high-ranking Hezbollah commander has been killed in Aleppo, the latest casualty suffered by the Lebanese party fighting on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria.   A pro-Hezbollah outlet which publicizes funerals of the party's fighters killed "in confrontation with the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said more than 24 Russian warplanes, Sukhoi-24 and Sukhoi-34, have arrived the coastal Hmeymim airbase, as Moscow plans to step up its aerial campaign against the Syrian people. Sources detailed that warplanes are arriving consecutively as 4 planes each...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, in a video statement, demanded all the military factions to solve rifts and to form one military command able to defeat the Syrian regime and allied militias. The statement has also demanded to the factions to people's rights, and...

Britain and France sought to persuade the European Union on Monday to condemn Russia's devastating air campaign in Syria and pave the way for imposing more sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad's government. After a weekend of U.S.-led diplomacy that failed to find a breakthrough, EU...

(sputnik)- A 49-year agreement between Russia and Syria on a Russian naval base in the Syrian port of Tartus is likely to be submitted to lower house lawmakers within a month, a Russian parliamentary source told RIA Novosti on Monday. Deputy Defense Minister Nikolay Pankov disclosed plans...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- More than 100 bodies for slain regime soldiers have been received by Tartus military hospital during the past two weeks, most of them were killed in battlefields of Aleppo, Damascus, Hama, Latakia and Deir Ez-zor, sources said. Most of the bodies are still in mortuaries,...

(The Daily Star)-  A 45-year-old Syrian was found stabbed to death at the entrance of his residence in south Lebanon, the National News Agency reported Monday. NNA said that the knife used in the murder was discovered inside the man's house, in the town of Doueir in the southern...

Daesh militants have been removed from nine towns and villages in northern Syria, including Dabiq and Sawran towns amid Turkey’s Euphrates Shield operation in the area.  According to a statement by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK), Daesh lost the towns of Dabiq, Sawran and Ihtaimlat, and...