(Zaman Al Wasl)- Asayish forces, key unit in the the Democratic Union Party (PYD), tried to seize number of houses belong to immigrants of Syriac in the city centre of Hasaka. Activist "Mahmoud al-Ahmad" said Asayish  had occupied some of the closed houses belong to Syriac families left...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A humanitarian aid convoy loaded with food and medicine entered the besieged neighborhood of al-Waer in central city of Homs, activists said Thursday. 7500 food and medicine packages have been provided the Syrian Red Crescent to the trapped residents of al-Waer. The...

The United Nations will not disclose to a Saudi Arabia-led coalition sensitive sources of information that led the world body to briefly blacklist it for maiming and killing children in Yemen, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. Saudi U.N. Ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, in a June 8 letter...

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday a ceasefire was still holding in the Syrian city of Aleppo and a similar arrangement around the town of Daraya in Damascus province was extended until midnight on June 18. During the last 24 hours, the ministry registered four breaches of the...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- A senior official in European Parliament received the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Party Leader Salah Demirtas in Brussels on Tuesday. They walked in the corridors of the parliament whose walls carried flags of Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units YPG...

Syrian authorities on Thursday decided to raise the price of fuel, the official news agency SANA said, including petrol by 40 percent. The minister of internal trade and consumer protection issued the order for the price of a liter of petrol to be increased from 160 to 225 Syrian pounds (about...

A British member of Parliament was shot dead in the street in northern England on Thursday, causing deep shock across Britain and the suspension of campaigning for next week's referendum on the country's EU membership. Jo Cox, 41, a lawmaker for the opposition Labour Party and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military source disclaimed circulated news in the media about Russia establishing a new military base in Palmyra airport following recapture of archeological city from Islamic State. The source told Zaman al-Wasl the rumors are incorrect confirming the Russians established a...

 Islamic State's "terrorism capacity and global reach" have not been reduced, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency said on Thursday, adding that the group has tens of thousands of fighters around the world, far more than al Qaeda had at its height. John Brennan told U.S....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- People in the southern countryside of Hasaka still suffer from hard living conditions even after controlling the area by the U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), even the situation has become worse than before when they were under the...

 Islamic State is committing the crime of genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, seeking to destroy the ethno-religious group of 400,000 people through killings, sexual slavery and other crimes, United Nations investigators said on Thursday. Their report, based on interviews with...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Malaysia did not sign on pacts to receive refugees, but a number of Syrians fled regime oppression to Malaysia since Syrians do not need a visa to enter it. The number of Syrian refugees in Malaysia is estimated to be 4000. They face difficulties in...

 Saudi Arabia's powerful deputy crown prince held a full day of meetings with U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, part of a visit aimed at restoring frayed ties with Washington and promoting his plan to wean the kingdom away from oil revenue. Mohammed bin Salman, son of Saudi Arabia's King...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- Rebel factions recaptured Tal Batal town in northern Aleppo countryside on Thursday after fierce fighting with the Islamic State while Syrian regime forces and its militias recaptured Zaitan town in southern Aleppo countryside. Spokesperson of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes rocked a Civil Defence center in Kafr Takharim town in northern Idlib province, leaving a child dead and wounding 5 people, activists said Wednesday. 9 more people have been wounded in air strikes hit al-Thawra neighborhood in Idlib city. On...

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl archive of Islamic State registration forms revealed more data regarding ISIS members from a Bahraini family and were appointed to high profile posts; one of them is Ali al-Binali nicknamed as Abu Musab al-Bahraini killed two days...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Obaid, a Christian man announced his adoption to Islam in the beginning of the Syrian revolution, to share people in his village of Qusayr, the trip of suffering which has started with losing everything, then displacement ending up as a refugee...

Aid has been cut from rebel-held areas of Aleppo for the longest period since the Syrian civil war began due to an escalation in air strikes and bombardments, driving up food prices and choking efforts to ease the plight of residents. "For the last few weeks we have not been able to bring...

  Belgian police have received an anti-terror alert warning that a group of Islamic State fighters recently left Syria en route for Europe planning attacks in Belgium and France, a Belgian security source said on Wednesday. The Belgian crisis center in charge of coordinating security...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday he had discussed ways to revive a "frayed" Syrian truce and get aid into besieged communities with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who had indicated "how this can be achieved". Addressing a seminar in Norway on conflict...