(Zaman al-Wasl) Hamdi Daham al-Jarba, the co-governor of the self-administrated Kurdish al-Jazira canton, directed a speech to the head of the Bashar al-Assad regime to deny the Kurdish administration’s intention to secede, and considering the invitation to bring down the regime an invitation to...

Over 100 residential areas across almost 1,000 kilometers of northern Syria have been cleared of terrorists since the start of Operation Euphrates Shield, Turkey’s military said on Sunday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff also said a total of 1,657 Daesh targets had been destroyed...

Five policemen were killed and nine others injured in two separate militant attacks late Saturday in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula. In a statement, the Interior Ministry said unidentified gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying five police personnel in North Sinai’s city of Arish....

Israel's military has imposed a curfew on the occupied West Bank for the duration of a Jewish holiday beginning Sunday evening, Israel radio reported. A military spokesperson said checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza have also been closed until Tuesday, except for humanitarian...

Bosnian voters on Sunday are taking part in local elections a week after Republika Srpska -- one of the two entities making up Bosnia and Herzegovina -- overwhelmingly passed a controversial referendum creating a “national holiday” in defiance of the country’s highest court. Over 3.2 million...

Pope Francis said a Mass on Sunday for the miniscule Catholic community in Shi'ite Muslim Azerbaijan, urging the "precious little flock" to keep the faith and paying tribute to those persecuted during the Soviet era. The oil and gas-rich nation of about 9 million people bordering on Russia,...

Russian warplanes and their Syrian government allies battered rebel-held areas in and around Aleppo on Saturday, and rebels and aid workers accused them of destroying one of the city's main hospitals and killing at least two patients. M10, the city's main trauma hospital, in eastern Aleppo,...

Britain will trigger the formal divorce process from the European Union by the end of March 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday. When asked when she would invoke Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, May told the BBC: "We will trigger before the end of March next year."...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out at least 7 raid on the Western Ghouta suburbs early Sunday, using Phosphor bombs, local media group said. Three people were killed and 20 more people wounded in al-Wadi and Deir Khabiya when regime warplanes hit the towns with 30 barrel...

Arab coalition forces have launched operations against militia boats of Yemen's Houthi group that struck a civilian logistics ship on a humanitarian voyage in a strategic Red Sea shipping lane, the Saudi-led alliance said. The vessel, an Australian-built high speed logistics catamaran under...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump closed out a rough week for his campaign on Saturday by escalating personal attacks on Democrat Hillary Clinton, questioning her stamina and saying she should be in prison for her handling of classified emails. After a week in which he drew wide...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish self Administration has forced teaching in Syriac language as well as Kurdish an Arabic, for grades 1-3 in schools of Hasaka under the Kurdish administration control, amid fear of people for not recognising the teaching their children received in areas out of the...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Clashes between Islamic State forces and People’s Protection Units, the military arm of the Democratic Union Party, took place in al-Shaddadah city in the southern countryside of al-Hasakeh.  Ahmad al-Ali, an activist, said that limited clashes took place between the...

(Marca)- For the next three or four weeks, Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane must plan without Luka Modric and it hasn't always been easy without him in the past. While Los Blancos couldn't be described as being overly dependent on the Croatian, there is no doubt that his absence is a big...

At least 77 people have been injured after a gas cylinder exploded in a cafe in the Spanish town of Velez-Malaga on the southern coast, a spokesman for the Andalucia region's emergency unit said. The spokesman said five people were being treated for serious injuries after the explosion at...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Saturday have escalated their offensive on the western suburbs of the capital, saying it wants to clear rebel pockets in area close to predominantly Alawite district, activist said. The clashes took place in Qudsaya and al-Hama town , 7 km (5...

Hundreds of people rallied in the German capital Saturday to call for an end to the Syrian regime’s continuing airstrikes on Aleppo, which has killed at least 500 people in the past two weeks. Demonstrators marched in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, raising flags of the Syrian revolution and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's air strikes in bolstering Bashar al-Assad's regime have killed at least 350  civilians in the northern countryside of Homs province since September 30, 2015, local activists and medics said. The 500 strikes have killed 150 children and 100 women in Russian...

Turkey's parliament passed a motion on Saturday to extend a mandate that allows military action against terror organizations in neighboring Syria and Iraq for one more year.  The parliament convened on Saturday, on the first day of a new parliamentary session to discuss the current...

Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told French daily Le Monde. Confirming the findings of a confidential report by...