Syria's opposition plans to unveil its plans for a political transition to help end the country's five-year war at a meeting of ministers in London next week, a delegate said. In emailed comments to Reuters, Hind Kabawat, a member of Syria's main opposition group, the High Negotiations...

Areas of Syria's Hama province captured by Syrian insurgents came under heavy air attack on Thursday as government forces sought to counter a major rebel assault in an area of strategic importance to Bashar al-Assad. The rebel thrust in Hama marks a new challenge to Assad and his allies in a...

Turkish army reinforced its troops in Syria with additional tanks and armored vehicles Thursday, according to a military source. A large number of Turkish tanks were also amassed along the Turkey-Syria border, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Civil Defense groups in Latakia countryside and Idlib countryside warned of the danger of unexploded cluster bombs spread intensively in the orchards and forests as many injuries were recorded. The Russian and Assad warplanes dropped thousands of cluster bombs on Latakia and...

By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- An official document from the regime intelligence revealed the intelligence monitoring the activity of churches, watching the clergymen overseeing them, evaluating them in terms of reputation and political orientation, and their legal, financial and...

The United States and its negotiating partners agreed "in secret" to allow Iran to evade some restrictions in last year's landmark nuclear agreement in order to meet the deadline for it to start getting relief from economic sanctions, according to a report reviewed by Reuters. The report is to...

Reporting by Abdulhafiz Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Noor, 4, Nagham, 3, and Oday one year old, are three Syrian refugee children in Ersal suffer of Albinism, that characterises them with white skin, hair, eyebrows and lashes. They left their hometown in al-Qusayr in Homs countryside and came to...

(Eqtsad)- Dr. Mohammed Mansoor al-Atrash, the Syrian Head of the Syrian-Turkish relations office told Eqtsad via a phone call that Hatai Governor has issued a decision to open the crossing point of jalfa-Jozo for Syrians who live in Turkey and want to visit their families in Syria in al-Adha...

Israel approved on Wednesday 284 new housing units in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, drawing a U.S. accusation that its policies could expand settlements in a "potentially unlimited way." U.S. officials said the criticism from the U.S. State Department marked the first time it...

The intelligence wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard arrested an Iranian-American dual national in late July on charges of plotting against national security and working with hostile governments, the news site of the Iranian judiciary said. Mizan Online said on Wednesday the person was arrested...

Behind the front lines in the Libyan city of Sirte, ageing tanks crunch through the debris of battle to new positions and resting fighters drink sweetened coffee waiting for orders to advance. Ahead, Islamic state militants besieged in a single residential neighborhood and targeted by U.S. air...

Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants on Wednesday and seized arms and an explosive belt prepared for suicide attacks during a dawn raid in a central province following an earlier ambush on an army patrol, the interior ministry said. Al Qaeda-linked Islamists based in the remote...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian swimmer Ibrahim al-Hussein is participating in the Paralympics in Rio De Janeiro from the disabled, under Greece flag. Al-Hussein lost his lower limb during rescuing operation in in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor .  He also used to suffer some injuries...

The Free Syrian Army (FSA) has blamed the U.S.-led coalition for failing to provide air support in time to them and the Turkish armed forces during an attack in northern Syria's western Jarabulus late Tuesday. "We could have lost many people," an FSA source, who spoke on condition of...

Three American nationals have been killed in Syria while fighting alongside Kurdish forces near the recently captured town of Manbij, a Kurdish security source told The New Arab on Tuesday. The bodies of the three US combatants killed last week were transferred to the US Consulate in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance factions mad new advances in Hama province on Wednesday, taking Soran town from Syrian regime locations there, local sources reported. Resistance factions have killed scores of regime fighters in the battle launched last Monday in northern Hama province. The...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Head of Justice Court in southern Daraa province said Syrians who uprised agianst the Syrian regime have also the ability to stand against al-Muk military operations room. Mutasim al-Absi clarified in a statement to Zaman al-Wasl the court does not oppose supporting the room...

India's Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEE.NS) said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its sports broadcasting business to Sony Pictures Networks for $385 million, as it rejigs its media content delivery businesses. TEN Sports holds broadcast rights to major cricket boards in South...

Russia questioned on Tuesday a report by the United Nations and a global chemical weapons watchdog that blamed Syrian government forces for two chlorine gas attacks, saying the U.N. Security Council could not use the conclusions to impose sanctions. A year-long U.N. and Organization for the...

Turkey will not agree a truce with Kurdish militias in Syria as it considers them terrorists, officials said on Wednesday, after strains emerged with the United States over clashes between Turkish forces and the U.S.-backed Syrian fighters. Washington has been alarmed by Turkey's week-long...