The cost from damage to infrastructure and economic losses in Yemen's civil war is more than $14 billion so far, according to a confidential report seen by Reuters that highlights the effort needed to rebuild the country, where more than half the population is suffering from malnutrition. "The...

(Eqtsad)- The Syrian regime is pressurising employees using their need for work and source of income to force them to join courses of self defense, in order to participate in it war against Syrian people. Abo Aziz, in his fifties, told Eqtsad that he only had two years left to be entitled for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Officials of regime have threatened Tuesday that they would intensify attacks on al-Waer neighbourhood in central Homs city if the fighters did not leave the neighbourhood. Zaman Al Wasl correspondent in Homs mentioned that regime’s forces on barriers have repeated what they...

Libyan forces said on Tuesday they had taken one of the last districts in central Sirte held by Islamic State militants, battling snipers and car bombs in their campaign to recapture the entire city. Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government in Tripoli are three months into a campaign...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes between the forces of Syrian regime and militants of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) Tuesday in the city centre of Hasaka city following failure to reach to an agreement on controlling the city. Local sources mentioned that clashes between the Syrian regime with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Sweida province is under unprecedented difficult conditions at all levels, especially lack of water, electricity, fuel and internet, added to regression in the security levels. In regard to water, pumping water into general networks has reached to its lowest levels,...

Russian authorities notified the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria shortly before launching a bombing mission from Iran, a US military official said Tuesday. The coalition has since last year operated a "memorandum of understanding" with Russia, whereby the two military forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Latakia city is witnessing a choking crisis due to the scarcity of the petrol as it is only present in specific gas stations and for a limited of hours daily whereas officials and military personal obtain their need immediately and the product is leaked to be sold for...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has killed more 50 civilians in northern Aleppo city in deadly air strikes rocked most opposition-held areas, local reporter said Tuesday. More than 60 raids have been conducted since early morning, killing 23 people in Tariq al-Bab neighborhood and 20 more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian resistance in Homs northern countryside announced on Tuesday killing of General Riyad Asef Younes, the regime operation chief in Hama southern countryside and the chief of military campaign on al-Zara and Harbanfecseh, local sources reported. Zaman al-Wasl reporter in...

Turkey's state-run news agency says officials have made a formal request to Greece for the extradition of eight Turkish officers who fled to the neighboring country after last month's attempted coup. Anadolu Agency said Tuesday a Justice Ministry file for the officers' return has been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local Coordination Committees said on Monday the Waraqa cultural center in Bab al-Maqam neighborhood in Aleppo city has been destroyed by Syrian regime warplanes. The committees clarified that vacuum missiles targeted the center leading to its destruction and becoming out of...

Russian bombers based in Iran on Tuesday struck militant targets inside Syria, the Russian Defence Ministry said, after Moscow deployed Russian aircraft to an Iranian air force base to widen its campaign in Syria. The ministry said the strikes, by Tupolev-22M3 long-range bombers and Sukhoi-34...

 U.S. officials said on Monday 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama's administration. The transfer of the 12 Yemeni and three Afghan citizens brings the total...

The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey border, turned out to be overwhelmingly ignorant. The extremist group could hardly have hoped for better....

Reporting by Mustafa Mohamed (Eqtsad)- Some might classify the trade in Syrian pound in southern cities of Turkey as small trade and that might be a correct classification when looking at who has the keys of this trade; however, this classification seems to be inaccurate when looking at the...

The Pentagon said Monday it is committed to conducting Manbij operations consistent with commitments made between the U.S. and Turkey. "We have been clear with all elements of this operation that the aim is to defeat Daesh in Manbij and return it to the control and governance of the local...

Turkey expects Syrian Kurdish fighters to withdraw east of the Euphrates river after they and other U.S.-backed forces seized control of the Syrian town of Manbij from Islamic State last week, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- militants of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) have arrested many Kurdish leaders and activists in the Northern countryside of Hasaka, while a car bomb exploded near al-Shadadi, claimed to be for the Islamic State. Activist Mahmood al-Ahmed from Qamishli city revealed that...

A Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, the aid group said. A Reuters witness at the scene of the attack in the Abs district of Hajja province said medics could not immediately...