(Zaman Al Wasl)- A U.S. -led coalition airstrike against the Islamic State on Wednesday destroyed al-al-Asharah bridge extending over the Euphrates River in Deir Ez Zor’s eastern countryside which is the last functional bridge to pass between the two sides of the river in the entire...

The army on Wednesday recaptured the Al-Dabour Island region in Iraq’s western Anbar province from the Daesh terrorist group, Iraqi Army General Qassim al-Muhammadi told Anadolu Agency. "The Iraqi army, backed by airstrikes carried out by the international coalition and the Hashd al-Ashaeri...

Chinese authorities said Wednesday that 27 people are missing in eastern Zhejiang province after a landslide hit a village during torrential rains related to Typhoon Megi. State news agency Xinhua cited the provincial government as saying that “several” houses and buildings were destroyed in...

Congress on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama’s veto of legislation that allows the victims of terror attacks to sue foreign governments, marking Obama's first congressional override. The measure received support well beyond a two-thirds super majority to pass...

Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on Wednesday and ground forces intensified an assault in a battle which the United Nations said had made the city worse than a slaughterhouse. Two patients died in one of the hospitals and...

An Ankara court on Wednesday remanded in custody a man involved in a knife incident outside the Israeli embassy in the Turkish capital last week, judicial sources said. The suspect -- identified earlier by Ankara Governorship as 38-year-old Konya-born Osman Nuri Caliskan -- confessed during...

At least two people were reportedly shot at a South Carolina elementary school on Wednesday. It's unclear if the victims are teachers, students or others. Police are responding to the incident at Townville Elementary School. Fox Carolina News reported that a suspect is in custody....

Washington will increase the number of its advisors in Iraq in line with a request by Baghdad, according to an Iraqi government statement issued Wednesday. "The reason for the increase of U.S. advisors in Iraq is to provide the necessary support for the imminent campaign to recapture Mosul...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Wednesday have taken new village in the northeastern countryside of Hama province after heavy clashes with regime forces and militias, activists said. Al-Jnaina village was the fifth village fell to rebels favor in two days. On Tuesday rebels seized control...

Reporting by Ammmar al-Khasawneh  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leadership of 18-March Division has confirmed the death of its ground commander Hosam Abazid Wednesday afternoon as a result of severe head injury, while another commander Thabit Masalmeh had head injury and he is now in critical...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian and Assad’s warplanes have continued hitting the eastern neighbourhoods of Aleppo, concentrating on vital buildings like hospitals and bakeries, intending to kill as much as possible. Hospital and bakery in the neighbourhood of al-Maadi were targeted according to...

Six PKK terrorists surrendered and two others were captured in Turkey's southeast, the military said Wednesday. A Turkish General Staff statement said six terrorists surrendered themselves to security forces in Silopi district of Sirnak province after having escaped from their shelters in...

From a sandbagged army post near the border with Syria, Lebanese soldiers gaze through tripod-mounted binoculars into hills where jihadist militants are entrenched, a forgotten front in Syria's civil war that has led to bombings inside Lebanon. There is frequent fighting between the army and...

More than 400 cases of torture have been reported in prisons across Tunisia, a Tunisian NGO said Wednesday. According to the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH), however, alleged torture cases by the Tunisian regime -- which reportedly occurred in the period from October 2013 to October 2015...

Some 50,000 Syrians living in Turkey outside refugee camps are being supplied with soap and other critical hygienic products. Under an accord between the Turkish Red Crescent and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), packages including soap, shampoo, and toothbrushes...

A Swiss military helicopter crashed over the Alps on Wednesday, the country’s defense ministry has confirmed. The aircraft came down over the Gotthard Pass in south-eastern Switzerland, according to a ministry statement. There was no information about the number of people involved, but...

A concrete wall being built to stop illegal crossings along the length of Turkey's 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria will be finished by the end of February, an official at a Turkish state institution with knowledge of the project said on Wednesday. Ankara has long been under pressure from...

A Russian airstrike on northern Syria’s Aleppo city on Tuesday has killed the mother and twin sister of six-year old child Sabah Sheikh Qassem. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, pro-opposition defense official Mohammed Novlo said Russian jet fighters struck a 5-floor building -- where Qassem’s...

EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides on Wednesday stressed the urgent need to end the Syrian civil war, decrying attacks on aid convoys. "When convoys are deliberately shot at, it becomes virtually impossible to deliver aid. There has never been a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl learnt that the international road between Homs and Tartus was cut for several hours on Tuesday, specifically at the village of Oum Haratin, a predominantly Shiite village, situated next to Homs’ refinery, forcing travelers in both directions to alternative...