Eight members of Turkey's security forces and 11 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) were killed in clashes overnight in southeast Turkey, security sources said Saturday. The fighting, in Van province near the border with Iran, followed a day of violence across the...

BAGHDAD (AA) – At least 24 Iraqi people were killed and dozens more injured in clashes with members of the Daesh terrorist group in Iraq’s northern Saladin province, local officials said. Saladin police chief Ghazwan al-Jubouri said the clashes took place early Friday morning and at least 24...

Ireland has confirmed it will appeal a European Union ruling that ordered Apple to pay 13 billion euros ($14.6 billion) in back taxes in the country. The decision ends uncertainty over the country’s fragile government after independent ministers indicated they wanted the technology giant to...

Writing by Samir Taweel (Eqtsad)- Arabic and international media have circulated a shocking report of the British newspaper “the Guardian” that revealed that the U.N. has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to people close to the Basher al-Assad as part of an aid programme....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said 156 corpses for slain regime soldiers and officers were transfered to the main hospital of coastal Tartus city on Friday. Activist Mustafa al-Baniasi said an administrative who works in Basel al-Assad Hospital in Tartus and who spoke on...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance on Friday downed a regime attack helicopter in central Hama province, killing two military pilots, sources said. The Gazelle helicopters was hit by a U.S.-made TOW missile near Rahabat Khattab base northwest of Hama city. Source said Colonel Mohamed...

Lebanon indicted two Syrian intelligence officers on Friday in connection with twin bombings at mosques in Tripoli in 2013, state media said, the deadliest attack in the city since the end of Lebanon's civil war in 1990. The two blasts, at the Sunni Muslim Taqwa and al-Salam mosques in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance in southern province of Daraa have recuperated a military base from regime forces near Ibta'a town on Friday, local activists said. Regime forces backed by Russian airstrikes took the the battalion on Thursday, hours before rebels recaptured in counterattack....

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has described the first 100 days of Turkey’s 65th government -- which included an attempted coup and military operation in Syria -- as “eventful”. Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Yildirim outlined policy decisions made by his Justice and Development (AK) Party...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Stealing cars has widely spread in Latakia at range of 3 cars a day, according to a regime-loyal Facebook page, but where are these cars go, a regime loyalist mentioned that stolen cars are get dismantled in a factory in Qerdaha town,  The Bashar al-Assad...

European Union foreign ministers toned down their sometimes harsh views on Turkey as they gathered in Slovakia on Friday, although concerns about a crackdown following a failed coup were still running high. Turkey has accused the EU of being slow and half-hearted in its condemnation of the...

Turkey renewed air strikes on Islamic State sites in Syria on Friday, extending operations along a 90-km (56-mile) corridor near the Turkish border which Ankara says it is clearing of jihadists and protecting from Kurdish militia expansion. Turkey's 10-day-old offensive, its first major...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The military formation of Ajnad al-Hasaka is newly formed of young men of Hasaka city who live in Idlib an trained in its camps, it is one of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) formations, according to the Commander Abo Hamza al-Haskawi. Al-Haskawi mentioned in his talk to Zaman AL...

Reporting by Faris Rifai (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian security forces are still detaining the Palestinian Surgeon Dr. Hayel Hamid for the fourth year after arresting him in his clinic in Yarmouk camp for Palestinian Refugees southern of Damascus, and refuse to reveal information about his fate. A...

 As U.S.-led coalition jets from a Turkish air base began to pound Islamic State targets in Syria in the summer of 2015, Ilhami Bali passed on what appeared to be an order from the militant group's leadership in Raqqa: unleash war on Turkey. Bali, identified by Turkish prosecutors as the...

Turkey has swept Islamic State and the Kurdish YPG militia from an area of northern Syria, but Syrian Kurdish forces have still not met a Turkish demand to withdraw to the east of the Euphrates river, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday. Turkey launched a cross-border offensive into Syria...

Rescuers pulled 1,725 migrants to safety from boats in the Mediterranean on Thursday, Italy's coast guard said, as seaborne arrivals to Europe's southern shores keep climbing. Sixteen separate missions were involved in rescuing the migrants, including Italy's coast guard and navy, the European...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes between Liwa al-Tahrir, one of the components of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Kurdish militias People Protection Units (YPG), the a military arm of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party and the main component of SDF in the village of Qunaitera of the Solok town...

 Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Eqtsad)- Syrian women have started working in different fields in Turkey due to the need of source of income to cover living costs, or due to breaking the social obstacles used to prevent women from work when they were in Syria. The housewife talked to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people have been killed and dozens more have been wounded in regime air strikes on northern Idlib province, activists said Thursday. The strikes have also targeted towns of Senjar and Khan Sheikhoun, leaving 3 people dead and dozens wounded. Regime warplanes carried 10...