A 27-year-old Syrian man denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when he set off a bomb outside a crowded music festival in Bavaria, an official said, in the fourth violent attack in the country in less than a week. Police said a dozen people were wounded, including three seriously,...
(Eqtsad)- Abu Islam leader in one of the groups in Daraya south of Damascus says the area of cultivated land which fell to regime in recent battles is estimated to be 175 acres. This fighter talks about the issue saying, “we planted in the winter around 75 acres of wheat and barley then we...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people have been killed in Russian air strikes on Atareb town in the northern province of Aleppo late on Sunday, medics said. 45 more people were also wounded in the 27 strikes on Atareb, hitting the town's main hospital and medicine stores in addition to civil...
Several people were killed when a mortar bomb hit a restaurant in the government-controlled ancient quarter of the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday, a monitor and a witness said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said dozens were also wounded in the attack. A witness told...
Al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has appeared in an audio interview calling on fighters to take Western hostages and exchange them for jailed jihadists, the monitoring service SITE Intelligence Group said on Sunday. In recording posted online, Al-Zawahiri called on the global militant network...
Tens of thousands of supporters of Turkey's ruling and main opposition parties, usually bitter foes, rallied together on Sunday in support of democracy following a failed military coup as President Tayyip Erdogan tightens his grip on the country. Demonstrators held a cross-party "Republic and...
A 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested after killing a woman with a machete and injuring two other people in the southern German city of Reutlingen on Sunday, but the attack had no apparent connection to terrorism, police said. The asylum-seeking Syrian man had been involved in previous...
Syria's government said on Sunday it was ready for further peace talks with the opposition and that it was intent on a political solution to the five-year conflict. "Syria ... is ready to continue the Syrian-Syrian dialogue without any preconditions ... and without foreign interference, with...
Air raids have hit four makeshift hospitals in Syria's battered Aleppo city, doctors said Sunday, jeopardising medical care for more than 200,000 desperate civilians in rebel-held areas. The bombardment since Saturday has worsened the plight of residents of besieged eastern neighbourhoods of...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hundreds of acres of planted land in Bashragi village subordinate to Bayt Yashout in coastal city of Jableh were confiscated by Agriculture Directory in Latakia Province on grounds the land has not been cultivated and planted by farmers for a long time. Owners of the land...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime forces and its security branches have started forming a new militia called Bayariq al-Ashayer in the Southern countryside of Hasaka in conjunction with prevailing tension within militias of Syrian Democratic Forces after arresting many...
(Eqtsad)- In a step expected by Eqtsad website previously, the new governor of regime-controlled Syria Central Bank Dured Durgham confirmed the Monetary and Credit Council will release a resolution start of next week in regard to move focus to meet foreign currency from currency exchange...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime killed at least 6 civilians and wounded 20 in air strikes rocked local marketplace in Misraba town on Saturday, east of the capital, medics said. The strikes hit also Shafouniya and Douma in the embattled Eastern Ghouta suburbs as regime forces prepare for new...
(Middle East Eye)- Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate reportedly faced a split in its ranks earlier this week as Russia and the US prepared to launch co-ordinated air strikes against it, and analyst Charles Lister tweeted on Saturday that Nusra’s Shura Council has voted to sever its ties with Al Qaeda,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian and U.S.-led air strikes killed at least 34 people on Saturday in the war-ravaged Aleppo province, local reporter said. The deadly aerial bombing of regime warplanes and Russian jets killed 24 people in raids on al-Qaterji, al-Saliheen and al-Hulk neighborhoods. In...
(Photos)- The Syrian regime put up number of old banknotes for sale in Beirut last week. The historic coins and banknotes were minted and issued between (1920-1946) during the French mandate.
The German military is training more than 100 Syrian migrants for civilian roles suited to helping the eventual reconstruction of their country, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said in remarks released ahead of publication on Sunday. Von der Leyen told the Frankfurter Allgemeine daily...
Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday that killed at least 61 people and wounded more than 200 when it tore through a demonstration by members of the mainly Shia Hazara minority. Graphic television footage from the site of the...
(The Daily Star)- A blaze Saturday destroyed large parts of a makeshift Syrian camp in east Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported. Three people suffered shortness of breath in the fire, which erupted at an encampment in Taanayel in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. They were treated in a...
While Turks are still trying to recover from the shock of last week's failed coup that killed 246 people, British newspaper Daily Mail is using the opportunity to insult the Turkish president and his family. In an editorial published July 18, Daily Mail tried to stir up the already depleted...
