Powerful Ahrar al-Sham movement on Tuesday issued a religious verdict justifying cooperation with the Turkish army against ISIS and the Kurdish forces in northern Syria, confirming it’s participation in the Turkey-led Jarabulus operation.  “It is permissible to cooperate with Turkey to...

The United States believes two Russian aircraft attacked an aid convoy near Aleppo in a strike that shattered a one-week truce, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, but Russia denied involvement. Despite the military blame game over Monday's deadly attack, diplomats struggled to save the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl revealed that Baath Party branch in Homs recruits in regime forces’ ranks persons whose age exceed retirement age including persons with 66-years-old in order to compensate for the losses of the regime. A document released by Baath branch in...

The United Nations rowed back on Tuesday from describing an attack on an aid convoy in Syria as air strikes, saying it did not have conclusive evidence about what had happened. The incident, in which 18 trucks from a 31-vehicle convoy were destroyed on Monday evening, had looked likely to deal...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- People of Latakia have not believed the “luxury” they enjoyed during the Eid al-Adha's holiday, as electricity kept available around the clock besides water and fuel, added to cleaning the city and getting rid of rubbish. However, since Saturday evening, the end of Eid...

U.S. investigators sought clues on Tuesday to why an Afghan-born naturalized American citizen might have planted bombs in New York City and New Jersey over the weekend, including whether he had accomplices or was radicalized overseas. "The investigation is active and ongoing, and it is being...

At least 120 Palestinians in Israeli jails have begun an open-ended hunger strike to demand the release of three fellow prisoners who continue to languish in "administrative dentition", the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)'s committee on detainees said Tuesday. In a statement, the...

Netflix Inc is expanding its Polish service to include more content subtitled or dubbed in Polish and plans to produce local shows before the end of the decade as the U.S. service seeks more subscribers away from its home market. Netflix, which first launched in Poland in January, said on...

Israeli army announced Tuesday that one of its warplanes had "intercepted" an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over the coast of the Gaza Strip. According to an Israeli army statement, the unarmed UAV -- which, it claimed, belonged to Palestinian resistance movement Hamas -- had been under...

A Muslim migrant woman in Germany who wears a headscarf has to send almost five times as many job applications as a native German candidate with same qualifications to get an interview, research released Tuesday claimed. Independent research institute IZA published preliminary results of a...

Jordan's moderate Islamist opposition could emerge from Tuesday's parliamentary election with renewed influence after surviving government attempts to ban it as part of a wider crackdown on political Islam. The group could win up to a fifth of seats in the parliament after ditching its...

Seven wounded Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters were brought to a hospital in southern Turkey, a security source said Tuesday.  According to the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to media, the fighters were injured in clashes with Daesh terrorists...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale will return to action for Real Madrid's La Liga game with Villarreal on Wednesday, coach Zinedine Zidane said. Ronaldo, Real's all-time top scorer, missed Sunday's 2-0 win at Espanyol with a sore throat while record signing Bale was out with a hip injury...

Turkey's leading operator Turkcell has developed a mobile application for over 3 million Syrian refugees in the country, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. "Hello Hope" app aims to teach basic Turkish words and expressions both in written and spoken formats to ease the daily lives...

The world needs a better strategy to deal with irregular migration, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the UN’s refugee and migrants summit Monday. Describing Turkey as a country “at the crossroads of irregular migration”, the minister said the international community must try...

The United Nations suspended aid convoys across Syria on Tuesday a day after an air strike hit relief trucks near the city of Aleppo, killing at least one aid worker and around 20 civilians, and destroying a warehouse and hospital. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which...

The number of refugees trying to reach Greek islands from Turkey via the Aegean Sea rose by 90 percent in August compared to previous month in the same year when Turkey and EU agreed on a refugee deal, according to Turkish Coast Guard data. Trying to make a perilous journey across the Aegean...

International Committee of the Red Cross Spokeswoman Krista Armstrong said 45 aid trucks were sent to Syria’s western city of Homs. "We are bringing foods and supplies to 84,000 people," Armstrong told Anadolu Agency on Monday. She said the trucks were dispatched to Tel Bisi, a northern...

At least five people were killed on Tuesday -- including the aide of a parliamentary speaker -- when a helicopter crashed in eastern Libya, according to a local military official. The aircraft went down in the Al-Makhili district between the eastern cities of Tobruk and Derna, the official...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least three people have been killed and 15 more wounded in the northern countryside of Homs as regime extends its aerial bombing, hours after the collapse of a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire in the war-ravaged country. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said the regime warplanes have...