(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes had this Monday, the first day of Adha a massacre in  the city of Maaret Masrin Northern Idlib where 12 civilians were killed and many injured after bombing civilians houses iwith vacuum missiles. Local sources reported to Zaman Al Wasl that...

A nationwide ceasefire in Syria brokered by the United States and Russia came into effect at 7 p.m. on Monday, the second attempt this year by Washington and Moscow to halt the five-year-long civil war. Neither the Syrian government or the constellation of rebel groups fighting to topple...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite the scarcity and siege the people of the besieged Eastern Ghouta insist on celebrating the blessed Eid al-Adha, so some of them prepared sweets for the first time since three years due to the availability of the primary material in comparison to previous years whereas...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iranian media outlets revealed Sunday evening of the death of major Murtada Etiyya, the high commander of the Fatemiyoun militia fighting in Syria alongside the al-Assad regime. Attai is considered the most important assistant to General Qasem Soleimani the commander of the...

At least 48 people have been wounded in a bomb attack that hit eastern Turkey's Van province Monday, near the governor's office and the headquarters of the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party.  A bomb-laden vehicle exploded at 10.50 a.m. local time (0750GMT) near the police...

An emboldened President Bashar al-Assad vowed on Monday to take back all of Syria, hours before the start of a ceasefire brokered by the United States and Russia, which Assad's opponents described as stacked in his favor. In a gesture loaded with symbolism, state television showed Assad...

Dozens were killed, mostly militants, in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Monday as the country marked the start of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.  Daesh militants attacked a security headquarters in al-Rutba in western Iraq, police officer Ahmed al-Duleimi told Anadolu...

European stocks and bonds fell in a volatile market on Monday, hit by growing concerns that global central banks' commitment to the post-crisis orthodoxy of super-low interest rates and asset purchase programs may be waning. German Bund yields DE10YT=TWEB rose further above zero to as high...

Stan Wawrinka's stunning defeat of top-ranked Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open final on Sunday booked the Swiss his place at the ATP World Tour Finals in London at the end of the year. Australian Open and French Open winner Djokovic, Wimbledon champion Andy Murray and Wawrinka are the first...

Turkey aims to send more than 30 trucks of food, children's clothes and toys to the Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, with a truce negotiated between the United States and Russia due to come into effect at sundown, officials said. Speaking after attending Eid al-Adha prayers, President Tayyip...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Eid al-Adha starts in the northeastern city of Hasaka with “Allah Akbar" praises coming from mosques, while children and men go to visit graveyards, and other men prepare sacrificial sheep to slaughter as main aspect of Eid al-Adha. Markets were busy in Hasaka city a day...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The opposition's Dean of Teachers, Hasan Tayfour revealed that teachers council has discovered 250 fake university certificates out of 4000 applicants for the teachers preparation in the Turkish city of Urfa. In his talk to Zaman al-Wasl, Tayfour divided forgers of university...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl) The town of Rawda in the Lebanese Bekaa valley witnessed on Friday a crime whose victim was a Syrian refugee. Activists stated that the refugee Abed al-Naser Qalaa nicknamed Abi...

Iran, a close ally and military backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, welcomed a U.S.-Russian deal for a truce in Syria, saying on Sunday the conflict should be ended through politics. The agreement, by the powers that back opposing sides in the five-year-old war, promises a nationwide...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army on Sunday has controlled the village of Kawkab in the northern countryside of Hama after preparatory mortar shelling followed by exploding a car bomb among regime’s forces inside the village, in the same time the regime airplanes hit the liberated areas...

(Zaman AL Wasl)- The Syrian regime has this Sunday afternoon released 194 detainees from different security detintion centres in the central city of Homs. Sources reported to Zaman Al Wasl that released detainees are from Homs and countryside, included 15 woman, the source confirmed that some...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Free Syria Army’s formations have stopped attacks of regime forces and militias of Soqor al-Sahra, as they tried to attack Jabal al-Akrad in the countryside of Latakia from many fronts, in the same time, war planes launched many strikes on the same sites.  Activist...

Government troops and rebels appeared to be fighting to strengthen their positions in several parts of Syria on the eve of a truce between the government and most rebel groups, aimed at easing the suffering of civilians. A war monitor reported clashes around Aleppo and Damascus, but pushes...

Turkey appointed new administrators in two dozen Kurdish-run municipalities on Sunday after removing their elected mayors over suspected links to militants, triggering pockets of protest in its volatile southeastern region bordering Syria and Iraq. Police fired water cannon and tear gas to...

Reporting by Mohamed Al Hussein (Zaman al-Wasl) Ahmad Jarba, the former head of the Coalition and the president of the Syria Tomorrow Movement, described what is happening now in Syria as, “a struggle over power and diverging the revolution.” On Saturday, during a signing of an agreement...