Syrian insurgents pushed government forces and their allies out of two villages in Hama province on Monday, regaining some areas recently lost, rebel officials and a monitoring group reported. The Syrian government side had taken over the villages, Maan and al-Kabariya, on Sunday as part of...
Turkey and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement for the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project in Istanbul on Monday. Energy Minister Berat Albayrak and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak signed the agreement following a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Resistance on Monday took strategic hilltops from regime forces in coastal Latakia province, killing 8 soldiers, activists said. Majd Naji, media activist, said the Resistance had seized control of the village of Rasha and hilltops of al-Burkan, al-Dababat (The...
(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions participating in Euphrates Shield operation made advances on Monday breaking first defense lines of ISIS in the villages east of Izaz in Aleppo northern countryside, local sources reported. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Aleppo said the Syrian...
(Zaman al-Wasl)- 3 civilians including a child have been killed and 17 injured by regime warplanes bombing Monday on towns in besieged Homs northern countryside, local sources reported. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in Homs said regime jets launched 10 air raids on Talbiyse town killing 4 civilians...
(Zaman al-Wasl)- 4 Ahrar al-Sham personnel have been killed in a bomb attack that targeted the movement checkpoint on the entrance of Saraqib east of Idlib whereas warplane bombed several regions in Idlib province, activists reported. Activists said that 4 Ahrar al-Sham personnel have been...
After five years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in the bitter patent dispute between the world's two top smartphone manufacturers over the amount Samsung (005930.KS) should pay Apple (AAPL.O) for copying the iPhone's distinctive look. The justices'...
Republican Donald Trump publicly broke with his running mate, Mike Pence, on how to deal with the civil war in Syria in comments during Sunday's U.S. presidential debate that exposed further tensions within their campaign. "He and I haven’t spoken, and I disagree,” Trump said in response to...
(Marca)- Sergio Ramos, Marcelo and Pepe are currently in the midst of their tenth season together in the Real Madrid defence, making them the most enduring defensive partnership in Los Blancos' long and storied history. The Portuguese centre-back arrived at the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu in...
A suspected car bomb on Monday killed at least 10 police amid increased Taliban attacks on the besieged capital of the southwestern Afghan province of Helmand, with the toll expected to rise, a security official said. The blast, in the city of Lashkar Gah, killed 10 police officers, with at...
A Syrian man who came to Germany during a migrant influx into the country last year was arrested on Monday after a weekend manhunt on suspicion of planning an Islamist bomb attack, Saxony state police said. Police had been looking for 22-year-old Jaber Albakr since he evaded them during a...
Libyan pro-government forces are advancing into the last area controlled by Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, surrounding the militants after a five-month campaign backed by U.S. air strikes, military officials say. At least eight pro-government fighters were killed over the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime on Monday has extended its aerial campaign on the Eastern and Western suburbs of Damascus, causing huge blazes in Douma city, Civil Defense said. The relentless bombing on Rural Damascus has followed Daraya's capture in September. Activists said Bashar...
Russia intends to establish a permanent naval base on the site of an existing facility it leases at the Syrian port of Tartus, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov said on Monday, Russian news agencies reported. Pankov's statement is the latest sign that Moscow wants to expand its...
Turkish military said Monday that 537 terrorists have been “neutralized” in the country during anti-terror operations against the PKK since August 29. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said 417 terrorists were captured dead, 61 wounded, and 18 captured live, while 41 surrendered to...
Paris demanded on Monday that Britain honor promises to take in migrant children from the notorious Jungle camp in the French port city of Calais, adding to pressure following accusations by the Red Cross that London is dragging its heels. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he would...
A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters, saying neither of the two missiles hit the ship. The attempted strike on the USS Mason, which was...
Attitudes to women dominated Sunday night’s presidential debate with Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton condemning Republican rival Donald Trump over vulgar comments he made in footage released earlier in the week. Trump in turn focused on Clinton’s husband’s affairs and accused her of...
President Muhammadu Buhari’s office on Monday defended the arrests of senior judges as part of Nigeria’s campaign against corruption. At least four and as many as seven judges from the country’s highest courts were arrested over the weekend by the Department for State Security (DSS), leading...
Reporting by Mohamed al-SHarif (Eqtsad)- The absence of medical monitoring and inspection in liberated areas northern of Syria, adding the huge reduction in number of medical staff due to displacement and traveling abroad, have pushed many of inexpert people to work in herbal treatment and...
