(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel factions have recaptured Handarat camp in northern Aleppo city, hours after regime army and allied militias took the the strategic camp, activists said on Saturday. The camp that situated few kilometres north of Aleppo fell to regime control early Saturday after...

Israeli forces have detained around 1,000 Palestinian minors since the beginning of 2016, a Palestinian committee said Saturday.  The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s committee on detainees said some of the minors were held under Israel’s administrative detention, a policy...

Syrian government and rebel forces battled for control of high ground on the Aleppo outskirts on Saturday as warplanes bombed the city's opposition-held east relentlessly in a Russian-backed offensive that has left Washington's Syria policy in tatters. In their first major ground advance of...

Syria said on Saturday its belief in victory was "even greater" now that the Syrian army was progressing in the "war against terrorism." Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem was speaking at the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders, after the Syrian army and allied militia seized ground...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Saturday took the strategic town of Ma’an and  al-Kibriyet village in Hama province from regime forces, activist said. The regime promised its supporters in Hama to turn the situation around and regain the areas it lost, but the situation for the regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists circulated a recording showing the first moments of the explosion which led to the death of the local administration minister in the interim government Yacub al-Ammar and a number of revolutionary leaders during their meeting in the town of Inkhil in southern Daraa...

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced seven people to death for alleged links to the 2013 killing of a senior police officer, according to a judicial source. The court also slapped five people with a 10-year jail term each and acquitted another defendant in the same case, the source said...

Palestinian hunger striker Malek al-Qadi was released from the Israeli custody on Saturday, according to a local Palestinian NGO. “Al-Qadi was received by Palestinian medics in awake of his release from Israeli hospital,” the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement. "He was...

Pope Francis on Saturday sought to comfort relatives and close friends of the more than 80 victims of the attack in Nice in July, who were run down by a man driving a truck as they celebrated France's national day. The pope began his solemn address by apologizing for not speaking French...

Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party on Saturday, ending a "coup" attempt by more moderate lawmakers who say his left-wing agenda can never deliver victory at the polls. The veteran campaigner's triumph, by 313,209 to 193,229 votes, cements his authority...

A clash between security forces and PKK terrorists left one soldier martyred and another wounded in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on Saturday, security sources said. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking with the media, said that one PKK...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 50 civilians were killed and tens wounded on Saturday morning during continuous aerial bombardment on the besieged eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo city, medics said. A medical source in the city proposed the number of dead will rise in the next hours as there are...

European Parliament President Martin Schulz said “the U.K. needs a united not a divided EU to achieve a good Brexit deal,” during a speech at the London School of Economics on Friday. On the second day of his visit to the U.K., the EU chief once again urged Britain to "notify its departure...

Reporting by Oqab Malek (Zaman Al Wasl) Zaman al-Wasl learned that the regime’s command of the air forces has prepared an emergency evacuation plan to evacuate air force equipment from Hama military airport in the event such a need arises. A knowledgeable military source said the Syrian...

Basque voters will participate in regional elections in northern Spain Sunday as memories of terrorism fade away, while opinion polls suggest people are turning away from traditional separatism but continue to remain hopeful for autonomy. The elections come at a critical time for Spain,...

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook some southern Philippines provinces early Saturday, but no casualties or damage were reported. The director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) told local radio station dzBB no damage was expected since the epicenter of...

Warplanes mounted a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday, rebel sources, a rescue worker and a war monitor reported, pressing a major offensive by the Russian-backed Syrian military. Speaking to Reuters from Aleppo, Ammar al Selmo, the head of Civil Defence in...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has joined the parade of world leaders paying court to Cuba following the normalization of relations with the United States earlier this year -- marking the first time a Japanese premier had visited the Caribbean island nation. Abe flew to Havana from New York,...

Three people were shot dead and two were wounded during a shooting at a mall on Friday in northwest Washington state where authorities were searching for the gunman, several media outlets reported. Authorities initially said on social media that four people were killed in the shooting, that...

At least 12 killed, 23 wounded in militant attacks north of Iraqi city of Tikrit - security sources