Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A State of anger is prevailing in the regime-controlled areas of the Western side of Aleppo city due to the increase cases of looting empty houses after leaving them by their owners, especially those near front lines, by member of the Popular...

By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman al-Wasl)- Sheikh of al-Baggara tribes in Syria Nawaf al-Basheer surprised us by saying, “the fall of Bashar al-Assad means fall of the institutions of the Syrian state,” because the alternative for this regime is either extremism or division considering the fall of...

BAGHDAD At least ten people were killed early Tuesday in a car bombing claimed by Daesh group in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.   A car packed with explosives blew up near a hospital in the Shia predominantly al-Karada district in central Baghdad, police officer Hassan al-Noufal told...

China is lauding its successful hosting of the G20 summit in scenic Hangzhou, with open confrontation largely avoided and broad consensus reached over the fragile state of the global economy and the need for a wide range of policies to fix it. There was even a joint announcement by China and...

ANKARA Turkish fighter jets have hit 12 PKK targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday, according to security sources. The Turkish Armed Forces hit four targets in the Metina region of northern Iraq and in Cukurca, a district of Turkey’s southeastern Hakkari province, the source said on...

JOHANNESBURG South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) said late Monday it looked forward to deepening trade and bilateral relations with Turkey. ANC Treasurer-General Zweli Mkhize said South Africa and Turkey shared a lot in common and should work together for their...

GAZA, Palestine  Around 65,000 Palestinians are still displaced since Israel waged a war on the Gaza Strip in 2014, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. "When the Israeli offensive stopped in 2014, [a total of] 100,000 Gazans were not able...

Libyan politicians began Monday two days of U.N.-brokered talks in Tunis to discuss power struggles and militant threats that are undermining stability in the country. The members of the Libyan Political Dialogue signed in December 2015 a political agreement that established the U.N.-backed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Om Ali, a mother of 4, three of them have brain retardation, while the fourth who was normal, was killed by Hezbollah militias as they killed him in al-Amal Hospital after he was admitted for an injury following Ersal troubles in 2014. Khayrat and Elham are over 20, they have...

Cooling U.S. rate hike expectations helped world shares notch up solid gains on Monday, though they came off highs as investors concluded an oil market pact between Saudi Arabia and Russia lacked substance. Oil surged as much 5 percent on news the two mega producers had signed a deal to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 civilians have been killed on Monday in Russian vacuum missile attack hit al-Sukkari neighborhood in the battleground city of Aleppo, activists said. The fierce aerial bombing on rebel-held Aleppo came as opposition forces fight to break the renewed siege on the...

Fifth-seeded Simona Halep beat 11th-seeded Spanish rival Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2 7-5 on Monday to reach the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open on Monday. The 24-year-old Romanian was broken serving for the match at 5-4 but she broke right back, and after falling behind 0-30 in the 11th game...

A Taliban suicide attack near the defence ministry in Kabul killed at least 24 people on Monday, including a number of senior security officials, and wounded 91 others, officials said. Two blasts in quick succession hit a crowded area of the city near government buildings, a market and a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- There are not clear indicators about what have been nominated as the clauses of the new agreement in al-Waer neighborhood, referred to officially as New Homs. The impression among many, regime opposition and supporters alike, is that it is a repetition of what happened in old...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Documents obtained by Zaman al-Wasl reveal stories of how some dissident officers were caught around the corner or just before they planned to escape.  In document number 5899 raised as a confidential and urgent fax by branch 236 to the general intelligence branch...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian regime and negotiation committee via Russian mediation agreed that rebels will evacuate Mouadammiya town in Damascus, activists said. The move 10 days after the evacuation of sister town Daraya, one of the longest-standing of the uprising against Bashar al-Assad....

Canadian teenager Lance Stroll has emerged as a frontrunner to replace Felipe Massa at the Williams Formula One team next season after the Brazilian announced his retirement last week. Jacques Villeneuve, the 1997 world champion who was the last Canadian to race for the British-based team,...

Explosions in government-controlled areas of Syria and a province held by Kurdish militia killed dozens on Monday, while the United States and Russia failed to make concrete progress towards a ceasefire. Six explosions hit west of the capital Damascus, in the government-held cities of Homs...

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a longer-than-expected discussion on Monday about whether, and how, they could agree on a ceasefire deal in war-torn Syria, a senior U.S. administration official said. Obama and Putin spent about 90 minutes in a "constructive"...

Britain's Barclays (BARC.L) has hired JPMorgan (JPM.N) banker Tim Throsby to head its Corporate and International division, ending a six-month search for the number two job under Chief Executive Jes Staley. Throsby, 50, will also run Barclays' investment banking business within that...