(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army backed by Turkish jets on Sunday has taken four villages  from the Islamic State near the Turkish border, activists said. FSA's remarkable advance in the northern countryside of Aleppo city came as part of Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield to clear ISIS...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stressed that a political solution for Syria and stability in the civil war-torn country are necessary for an effective fight against Daesh, during a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of the G20 summit in China. Turkish...

The United States and Russia on Sunday tried to finalize a ceasefire deal for Syria, a second this year after a first collapsed, but U.S. President Barack Obama said "grave differences" remained and fighting on the ground continued. A truce brokered by the Cold War foes in February broke...

KABUL — All day long, a line of Afghans waited outside Farid Hamidi’s office, clutching sheaves of tattered legal papers they had brought to other officials in the past. They had heard that Afghanistan’s new attorney general was an honest man, willing to listen to anyone, so they had gathered up...

The British government will set out in the coming week how it plans to shape its relationship with the European Union upon leaving the bloc, Prime Minister Theresa May said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Since taking office in July, May and her Brexit minister David Davis have given...

An EU ruling that Apple Inc must pay a huge tax bill to Ireland was clearly based on facts and existing rules and was not a decision aimed against the United States, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Sunday. Ireland to appeal EU Apple tax ruling Last week,...

HOUSTON — Of all oddities, college football revealed on Saturday that money isn’t everything. Who knew. Certainly, money remained popular, and people spoke of money, as with the mass speculation about Big 12 expansion. Why, at halftime of Oklahoma vs. Houston at NRG Stadium, Houston Athletic...

China and the United States on Sunday committed anew to refrain from competitive currency devaluations, and China said it would continue an orderly transition to a market-oriented exchange rate for the yuan CNY=CFXS. A joint "fact sheet", issued a day after U.S. President Barack Obama and...

Reporting by Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- The so called “London Paper” is nothing more than re-framing the outcomes of former negotiations and agreements especially the conference in Cairo 2012, that all military formations agreed on, according to an opposition well-informed source. ...

Politics and religion combined on Sunday to halt much of Israel's train service at the start of its working week. Bowing to demands by ultra-Orthodox partners in the governing coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered rail maintenance suspended on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath -...

Thousands of civil servants loyal to firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr went on strike on Sunday in the latest sign of escalation against the Iraqi government.  On Friday, the Shia cleric urged employees -- except for security forces -- to stage a two-day strike on Sunday to pressure...

President Barack Obama said the United States and Russia were working on Sunday to try to finalize a ceasefire in Syria that would allow more deliveries of humanitarian aid in the war-torn country. A deal could be announced as early as Sunday, a senior U.S. State Department official said on...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman al-Wasl) Before sunset on 24 August 2016, groups from the Free Syrian Army, with clear Turkish support, tightened their grip on Jarablus city with that ending the Islamic State’s sole presence in the city for over two years and a half, and its entrenchment in the city...

Emmanuel Macron, who resigned from the French government on Tuesday, criticized President Francois Hollande's government in a newspaper interview for not pushing hard enough for reforms. "I kept trying, proposing, pushing ... If you want to succeed you cannot leave work half done, and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists in Homs northern countryside launched “Anger for Homs” campaign to remind of Homs strategic importance in the revolution and to remind of the huge sacrifice of Homs to the revolution to move public opinion to save the left of liberated Homs from the sectarian...

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday bilateral talks with China's Xi Jinping had been "extremely productive", as world leaders gathered for a G20 summit expected to address sluggish global economic growth and the looming specter of protectionism. Some G20 leaders have already begun...

Turkish warplanes hit 10 Kurdish militant targets in Turkey's southeast and east overnight, the state-run Anadolu Agency said Sunday, citing security sources. The airstrikes capped one of the most violent single days of fighting in the largely Kurdish southeast in recent years. The military...

The EU failed to show Turkey the support it needed during the July 15 defeated coup, a senior Turkish official said Saturday.  “Stronger support should have been given,” Turkish EU minister and Chief Negotiator Omer Celik said in Bratislava, Slovakia, during a news conference following...

Armored vehicles of Turkish Armed Forces entered the Syrian town of al-Raie in the northwestern Aleppo province as part of Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield to clear ISIS out from its border region, said military sources Saturday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to...

Turkey and its rebel allies opened a new line of attack in northern Syria on Saturday, as Turkish tanks rolled across the border and Syrian fighters swept in from the west to take villages held by Islamic State. The incursion was launched by Turkey from Kilis province - an area frequently...