Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge fire broke out on Thursday has destroyed thousands of tonnes of cotton harvest in Ghwiran district in the northeastern province of Hasaka, state-run media and activists said. Local sources reported that a huge fire had broken out in the new...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian President Vladimir Putin about boosting military and intelligence cooperation against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria and told him that without "concrete, near-term steps," diplomatic efforts to end the war could not go on indefinitely....

A "terrorist" gunman killed 84 people and wounded scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd that had watched Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 80 people died and 18 were in a...

Translation by Yusra  Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The amount of wheat handed to regime’s grain centre in recent season is too small compared to the area of planted fields, which highlighted queries about reasons behind deterioration in selling wheat to grain centres and seeds multiplication centres....

 Up to 30 people are feared dead and over 100 others were injured after a van drove into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French resort of Nice Thursday, a local official told French television, describing it as a "major criminal attack". Speaking to BFMTV, Sebastien...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry took a proposal to boost military and intelligence cooperation against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria to Moscow on Thursday, despite doubts among U.S. defense and intelligence officials. Kerry was due to meet President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening...

Turkey imposed round-the-clock curfews on 16 villages in its mainly Kurdish southeast on Thursday as security forces tried to root out militants nearby and sacked two co-mayors it accused of supporting the fighters. Authorities in the province of Diyarbakir imposed the lockdown as security...

Writing by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- The issue of forming a military council in Syria was not proposed on table before last June. Zaman al-Wasl rushed to reveal the features of this council after Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu’s visit to Syria and...

Air strikes killed at least 12 civilians including children in two rebel-held neighborhoods of Syria’s Aleppo city on Thursday, a monitoring group said. Nine people were killed in the Tariq al-Bab neighborhood, and another three in the district of Salhin in the east of the city, the Syrian...

ISIS fighters brought down a Syrian jet near the eastern city of Deir al-Zor Thursday, a monitoring group and an agency linked to the radical militant group said. Amaq agency released video footage showing the flaming wreckage of a plane scattered across a stretch of barren rocky ground, as...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- A well-informed source revealed the curriculum vitea of one of those the source described as the thuggish arms present in the diplomatic field subordinate to the al-Assad regime, and the situation that this person is in at the moment knowing he is...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has warned there can be no solution to the Syrian conflict or the threat from extremists while President Bashar Assad remains in charge. In recent days, Yildirim has repeatedly said Turkey would seek good relations with Syria after diplomatic successes...

A US reporter killed in alleged Syrian government bombardment of a rebel district in 2012 was "responsible" for her own death, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview released Thursday. Speaking to NBC News in Damascus, Assad said Marie Colvin bore responsibility for her death in...

 Abu Omar al-Shishani, who the Pentagon described as Islamic State's "minister of war", was killed in combat in the Iraqi city of Shirqat, south of Mosul, a news agency that supports the militant group said on Wednesday. The Pentagon said in March that Shishani had likely been killed in a...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry heads to Moscow on Thursday to again seek deeper Russian cooperation in the war against Islamic State in Syria, but he faces strong opposition from defense and intelligence officials who argue that Washington and Moscow have diametrically opposite objectives...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is preparing plans to modify the law of mandatory military service after 6 years of issuance, it is expected to harden conditions over young men and make extremely difficult to get out of the country. The law of mandatory service...

 At least 12 people were killed in air strikes on the rebel-held western Syrian town of Rastan on Wednesday, a local doctor and a monitoring group said, despite a government-declared nationwide temporary truce. The British-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 regime troops and allied militants were killed and wounded by rebels in new clashes in the southern countryside of Hama province, sources said Wednesday. Sources told Zaman al-Wasl that a group of entrenched fighters part of the Islamic factions in Homs’ northern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have killed 9 people in air strikes hit northern Ariha town in Idlib province, local activists said Wednesday. The death toll is likely to rise since many wounded people are still in critical condition. The missile attack rocked the town's main...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian refugee Abdel Rahman al-Hajj Ali sits in the Moroccan Sla prison since October 30 2014 away from his family and children following a court case, he calls it a setup, against him brought about by a Saudi Arabian guarantor which led to an...