A Syrian rebel alliance agreed to a three-day nationwide ceasefire announced by the Syrian army on Wednesday and the United States voiced hope a more significant truce could be achieved, though fighting and air attacks continued. The truce was the first to be declared across the whole country...

 Eight Yemeni troops and six militants were killed on Wednesday in an assault claimed by Al Qaeda on a military base near the international airport of Yemen's southern city of Aden, the military said. Two suicide bombers blew up their cars, then militants stormed the Solaban base and...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime has sent more fighter jets to Qamishli airport northeastern Syria from the airports of ad Dumeir and Ash Sha’irat, military sources said. The source confirmed that the regime airplanes were sent, “as a result of the Russian inaction...

Barcelona soccer star Lionel Messi has been sentenced to 21 months in prison after a court in Barcelona found him guilty of three counts of tax fraud, a statement from the court said on Wednesday. The court also sentenced the Argentine soccer player's father, Jorge, to 21 months in prison for...

More Syrian refugees in the Middle East are falling into debt and facing poverty, partly as a result of exhausting their savings with shortages of essential aid worsening their plight, U.N. agencies and local governments said on Tuesday. Some 70 percent of refugees in Lebanon are...

A suicide bomb blast claimed by Islamic State killed at least 16 people in the mostly Kurdish-controlled city of Hasaka in northeastern Syria on Tuesday, the monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attacker detonated his explosives at a bakery. Several other people...

Deadly attacks in four countries linked to Islamic State show the limitations of U.S.-led efforts to loosen the group's grip in Syria and Iraq, and the challenge of stopping attacks that are not only globally dispersed but very different in their choice of targets, current and former U.S....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Life has returned to fields of Rastan in Northern countryside of Homs which was about to turned into desert due to complete discontinuation in electricity by the Syrian government after liberating the area, beside stealing cables and adaptors and selling...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said Russia offered Kurdish militias a full military support on condition of leaving the American pact. Sources assured that Russia urged Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) and PYD to leave the U.S. support in order to get a particular arms in their fight...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian children in Lebanon are not in a better situation than others inside Syria, as they suffer of poverty and the need to work to afford for their families’ food and shelter. Taha, 10 years old Syrian boy will spend his Eid in a mechanic...

Pope Francis on Tuesday criticized countries which are arming the warring parties in Syria while speaking at the same time of peace. The pontiff did not name any countries. President Bashar al-Assad's government is receiving military and other help from Russia and Iran, while some opposition...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Eid is coming in a time of unprecedented high prices making people of low income feel helpless as they are not able to afford to buy most of the thing either food, sweets or clothes. The price of one kilogram of poultry makes 5% of salary, while a...

A camp for Iranian dissidents near Baghdad's international airport was shelled on Monday, wounding more than 40 residents, the opposition People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI) said. "According to reports from Camp Liberty, as of midnight tonight, more than 40 residents were wounded...

 (The Syrian Observer)- A total of 6,567 Syrian civilians were killed during the first half of 2016, a human rights monitor reported, adding that it had documented 1,271 civilian deaths during the month of June alone. A study released by the UK-based Syrian Network for Human Rights on...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- As soon as Iftar is announced in the biggest mosque in the Jungle camp for Syrian refugees in Calais in France, the Ramadan banquets are spread in the mosque to which tens of Muslims come to pray in spiritual atmosphere that make the refugee feels as...

Suicide bombers struck three cities across Saudi Arabia on Monday, killing at least four security officers in an apparently coordinated campaign of attacks as Saudis prepared to break their fast on the penultimate day of the holy month of Ramadan. The explosions targeting U.S....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish Women’s Protection Units YPJ militia arrested an Arab woman from Alajat village near Manbij in Aleppo eastern countryside. The incident revealed the United States claims that an Arab alliance is fighting the battle against ISIS there. The brother of the woman told...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes intensified on Monday between Syrian rebels and regime forces in coastal Latakia province as rebels press to take strategic hilltop after seven days of remarkable gains in Jabal al-Akrad and Jabal a-Turkman areas, rebel commander said. Abu al-Jarrah, field...

 Syrian militias backed by U.S.-led air strikes have repelled a second Islamic State counter attack in 24 hours near a city being targeted in a major offensive against the jihadist group, an official and a monitoring group said on Monday. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance...

 Turkey has proposed cooperating with Moscow to combat Islamic State in Syria, suggesting it could open its Incirlik Air Base to Russia - comments that highlighted a revival in ties strained by Turkey's shooting down of a Russian warplane last year. Moscow pledged to rebuild relations...