Thousands of Yazidis are being held captive by Islamic State in Syria where many are used for sexual slavery or forced to fight for the group, the United Nations said on Wednesday, on the second anniversary of what investigators termed a genocide. A U.N.-appointed commission of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes killed 7 people in al-Sukkari neighborhood in the war-ravaged city of Aleppo, activists said Wednesday. More people have been killed and wounded in strikes rocked most rebel-held areas of Aleppo province. Meanwhile, Syrian regime forces backed by...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian and Russia warplanes carried out 145 air strikes on the northern countryside of Homs province in July, killing 71 people and wounding 100 more, Civil Defense Directorate said. The volunteer rescuing body, in statement posted online, said 12 children and 13 women...

(The Daily Star)- A Syrian national with dozens of arrest warrants out for him over drug-related crimes was arrested Wednesday in the northern city of Tripoli. A police statement said Kh.D., described as “one of the most wanted fugitives,” was found with 12 grams of Salvia packed in seven...

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi on Wednesday named Youssef Chahed as the new prime minister after parliament ousted Habib Essid in a vote of no-confidence because of his handling of economic reforms and security. A junior minister in Essid's government, Chahed, 41, is an agricultural...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces backed by allied militias have recaptured territory they lost to rebels in the battleground city of Aleppo on Tuesday, activists said. The regime militants took Talat al-Huweiz, Alameriya and al-Mahrouqat districts in al-Ramouseh area. Meanwhile,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel factions killed 20 regime troops and destroyed military vehicles on many points north of Zara town in the southern countryside of Hams, activists said. Military sources in the northern Homs countryside operation room and Jund Badir Brigades said the Syrian resistance...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A child girl was killed on Wednesday when unknown assailants fired two mortar shells on Samedoun refugee camp near the Turkish border in northern Idlib province, activists said. 5 more people were wounded due to the mortar attack that launched by 4 militants, according to...

If Mustafa had known what it would be like living in a refugee camp in the Greek capital, he would never have left Syria. Four months of living in a broken tent by Athens' Pireaus harbor, waiting for his asylum claim to be processed has caused Mustafa to bitterly regret his decision to leave...

Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died on Tuesday in the United States, his spokesman told Egyptian state TV. Zewail, who was 70 and a member of the...

Reporting by Naser Ali (Eqtsad)- Water crisis has returned recently between the Syrian regime and the opposition in an attempt to create a new balance in Wadi Barada village northwest of Damascus. The water war started when regime forces controlled the village of Harira, seeking to control...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo rebels seized strategic hill and make new advances in al-Ramouseh district west of Aleppo city after a massive tunnel bomb attack left dozens of regime army killed and wounded, local activists said Tuesday.  Tellat Huweiz was not the only gain of rebels major...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Aleppo rebels made gains on Tuesday as they launch major attacks against regime forces and allied militias in the battleground city. Rebels took ground near the western neighborhoods of Aleppo as clashes still underway in the southern and western neighborhoods, activists said....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's fighter jets killed 4 people in northern Idlib province in air strikes hit most of the rebel-held countryside, activists said Tuesday. Three  people were killed in strikes on Sarmin town and one person was killed and 6 ore people were wounded in Kafr Takharim...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 10 civilians have been killed on Tuesday in regime missile attack on the town of Atareb in northern Aleppo province, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said. The devastating missile attack hit the town's main market, turning most of the buildings to rubble....

Reporting by Orwa al-Sousi (Eqtsad)- trusted information revealed that the Turkish government has put new conditions in regard to Syrians with higher education who have been accepted for the resettlement programme announced by many countries like England and Canada. According to the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels launched a surprise attack on regime barracks in al-Zara town in the southern countryside of Hama province, seizing gun machines and tank. Rebels said the overnight attack was in support of the besieged Aleppo city. In the next-door northern countryside of Homs,...

Yemeni government negotiators said they were leaving peace talks in Kuwait on Monday after Houthi militia foes rejected a United Nations proposal aimed to ending their country's war. Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi insisted the government was not abandoning the peace process, but...

A Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory said on Tuesday a helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas overnight on a town close to where a Russian military helicopter was shot down hours earlier. A spokesman for Syria Civil Defence told Reuters that 33 people, mostly women and...

 The U.N. Deputy Special Envoy for Syria on Sunday held talks with Syrian officials in Damascus to sound out their position on how to break an impasse hindering the proposed resumption of peace talks around the end of August. Ramzy E. Ramzy said he and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid...