Syrian people returning to the liberated city of Jarabulus are happy to observe their first terror-free Eid al-Adha in two and a half years. Jarabulus was cleared of Daesh on August 24, as part of Turkish military’s Operation Euphrates Shield, which aims to drive Daesh out of the region to...

Two convoys of aid for the Syrian city of Aleppo were waiting in no-man's land on Wednesday after crossing the Turkish border, as disagreements between warring sides and security fears held up deliveries on the third day of a ceasefire. The convoys, each of around 20 trucks carrying mostly...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Most children in the Northern countryside of Homs have not felt the joy of Eid, as they were not put in new clothes or bought sweet, they did not go to funfair or swings, they only played in streets of their neighborhoods and heard stories from they parents about ceremonies of...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Field sources confirmed that the first day of the battle Qadisiat al-Janub witnessed advancement, whereby al-Hamiriyat Hill came under resistance control which means the pro-regime village of Hader is almost besieged. The advancement led the Qadisat al-Janub operation room to...

(Zaman al-Wasl) The regime and Islamic State siege did not succeed in preventing the Eid celebratory atmosphere, even a minimum level of it, from sneaking into al-Rejih Square in Yarmouk camp for besieged children to regain something from their childhood during Eid by playing with swings and...

Israeli warplanes on Tuesday night struck several Syrian artillery batteries in ostensible retaliation for rockets fired earlier from Syrian territory into northern Israel, the Israeli military has said. In a statement, the army said Israeli warplanes had targeted artillery batteries...

Six Daesh terrorists were killed by coalition airstrikes in northern Syria, the Turkish military said Wednesday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff gave the total toll for airstrikes and artillery bombardments against Daesh targets Tuesday. As well as six terrorists killed by...

(Zaman Al Wasl) Regime supporters’ responses to the ceasefire that started on the night of Eid al-Adha has varied as some of them found it an opportunity for the terrorist factions to catch their breaths after their losses in Aleppo and Latakia countryside and called for the regime to not...

Two PKK terrorists were killed in airstrikes in southeast Turkey, the military said Wednesday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said the strikes in Hakkari province, which also destroyed a PKK arms dump, were carried out between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. local time (1700 and 1800GMT)...

Rising bond yields, sparked in part by deepening worries over the difficulty of the world's major central banks to stimulate growth, kept investors in broadly risk-off mode on Wednesday The possible spillover effects of rising bond yields into stock and commodity markets has hit financial...

Former Israeli President Shimon Peres remains in a "critical but stable" condition in hospital following a massive stroke, his son-in-law and personal physician Rafi Valdan said on Wednesday, though the family is optimistic he will recover. Valdan said it was too early to tell whether there...

 Reporting by Abdulhafiz Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Yusef Abed al-Moulayet, who achieved first place in the Syrian general baccalaureate exams in its scientific branch in Lebanon with a score of 229 from a total of 240, always remembers the wise phrase, “learning is light and ignorance is...

The UEFA Champions League match between Portugal's Benfica and Turkey's Besiktas in Group B ended in a 1-1 draw Tuesday at the Luz stadium in Lisbon. Benfica's early goal came from Franco Cervi in the 12th minute, who converted a loose ball after a powerful ground stroke by Eduardo Salvio...

The U.S. and Israel have concluded an agreement to increase Washington's military aid to Tel Aviv, the State Department announced Tuesday. The new Memorandum of Understanding "constitutes the single largest pledge of bilateral military assistance in U.S. history," the State Department said...

By Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Actor Wasim Majid starred as the lead actor in the French film Syrian which recounts in the language of high end cinema one of the stories of the thousands of the suffering of Syrian refugees crossing to Europe on a daily basis. The film approximates some of...

A new ceasefire in Syria brought a full day with no combat deaths in the war between President Bashar al-Assad and his opponents, a monitoring body said on Tuesday, and efforts to deliver aid to besieged areas got cautiously underway. Twenty-four hours after the truce took effect, the United...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Omar Ismael, a leader in Kurdistan Democratic Party reported Tuesday that the party had in many towns and villages of Hasaka organised sit-in demanding freeing prisoners at PYD’s prisons. Ismael added in a statement to Zaman al-Wasl that they have organised sit-in at “Party”...

The median U.S. household income rose last year, its first significant annual increase since 2007, and helped push down the number of people living in poverty to 43.1 million, federal government data released on Tuesday showed. About 29 million people did not have health insurance in 2015,...

German police have arrested three Syrian men Tuesday for suspected links to Daesh and Paris attackers, the interior minister has said. Speaking at a news conference in Berlin, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said three suspects arrested Tuesday in northern Germany were believed to have...

Nearly two million Muslim pilgrims continued Tuesday the symbolic stoning of the devil, the last major ritual of the Hajj pilgrimage.  Crowds of the pilgrims converged on the Jamrat Bridge in the tent city of Mina to perform the stoning ritual.  Pilgrims hurl seven pebbles for...