(Zaman Al Wasl)- People’s Protection units (YPG) the armed wing of Democratic Union party (PYD) has Wednesday warned 3 villages in Southern countryside of Hasaka to evacuate them without explaining reasons, besides warning young men to join the mandatory conscription.  Local sources...

A group of 292 Syrians went back to the Syrian town of Jarablus from Turkey on Wednesday, marking the first formal return of civilians since Ankara launched a military incursion two weeks ago to try to secure the border region, a Turkish official said. Jarablus, which had been held by...

The Syrian government has begun releasing 169 prisoners in exchange for the return of the bodies of five Russian soldiers killed when their helicopter was downed, a lawyer said Wednesday. “On Tuesday, 50 inmates including seven women were set free from Adra prison and 84 others from Hama...

Apple Inc unveiled its new water and dust-resistant iPhone 7 with high-resolution cameras at its fall product event on Wednesday, and said a Super Mario game was coming to the new phone and Pokemon Go would feature on its upgraded Apple Watch. The excitement at the Bill Graham auditorium in...

The world will need 20 million barrels of oil every day to meet rising demand in the face of lower crude production, the president of oilfields services giant Halliburton said Wednesday. Regarding low oil prices and the hurdles in the global oil industry, Jeff Miller said capital...

An Iraqi Shi'ite militia said on Wednesday it had dispatched more than 1,000 fighters to the frontline in neighboring Syria, escalating foreign involvement in the battle for Aleppo, the biggest prize in five years of relentless civil war. New footage emerged of civilians choking in the...

(Eqtsad)- Ratiba Ahel, a Palestinian woman lived in Syria, was forced to leave the country to live in Gaza after the war in Syria. She found no source of financial support, which forced her to work in preparing Syrian food and sell it to people. Ratiba makes food and sweets of Damascus for...

At least 28 civilians were killed and scores injured in Russian airstrikes in northern Syria’s Aleppo province on Wednesday.  Russian warplanes carried out three raids on residential areas in the opposition-held al-Sokkary district in Aleppo, Najib al-Ansari, a local civil defense...

 Syria's main opposition negotiating group would reject any deal struck by Russia and the United States on Syria's fate that was very different from its own proposed transition plan, the group's general coordinator Riyad Hijab said on Wednesday. The High Negotiations Committee, which is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Amy backed by Turkish jets have pressed new advances on Wednesday in the northern countryside of Aleppo, taking 6 more villages from the Islamic State as the Euphrates Shield military operations enters third week, Anadolu agency said. The villages that situated...

Reporting by Tareq Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime government issued a decision recently prohibiting the landing of all civilian airplanes in Hmeymim international airport and its transition into a military airport. Sources confirmed that the prohibition decision came based on...

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four injured Tuesday in a Daesh attack in Syria’s Aleppo province, the military said. “Rockets were launched at two Turkish tanks operating in Wuguf district of Aleppo on Tuesday,” the Turkish General Staff said in an emailed statement. “During the...

Nothing less than victory will do for Manchester City in Saturday's feisty Premier League derby against Manchester United, playmaker David Silva has said. Silva, who scored both goals in Spain's friendly win over Belgium last week and two more against Liechtenstein in their World Cup...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A wave of anger prevailed among regime loyalist after Zaman al-Wasl report published yesterday that condemned way of breaching people’s dignity by regime when its intelligence published details of underwear of the two explosions’ victims in order to...

PARIS French anti-terrorism police have launched an investigation after a car full of six gas cylinders was found in Paris, near Notre Dame Cathedral, over the weekend, French daily Le Figaro reported Wednesday. The car – with registration plates missing and its hazard lights flashing –...

Almost 50 million children throughout the world are "uprooted," forcibly displaced from their home countries by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations children's program said Wednesday. "Indelible images of individual children -- Aylan Kurdi's small body washed up on a beach after...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's top religious authority accused Iran's leaders of not being Muslims, drawing a rebuke from Tehran in an unusually harsh exchange between the regional rivals over the running of the annual haj pilgrimage. The war of words on the eve of the mass pilgrimage will...

(Zaman al-Wasl) In a dark cell in the military security branch in Aleppo the detainee Mohammad Amin Mirat could hear the screams of detained women in the close by cells as they were tortured at the hands of an assistant officer who changed his name as a snake changes its skin, and he remained...

Fighting in Syria's western Hama province displaced an estimated 100,000 people between Aug. 28 and Sept. 5, the United Nations said on Wednesday, citing the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and the governor of the province. Syrian rebels launched an offensive last week in northern Hama, an area of...

U.S. President Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action with Turkey to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published on Wednesday. Ankara would not object, Erdogan said. Turkey, which is battling a Kurdish insurgency...