Reporting by Omar Sheikh Mohamed; Translation by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- Farmers in Daraa province in southern Syria have started to harvest their crops early this year, as they have for most of the years of the Syrian revolution. They harvest them early for fear of fires consuming them whether...

A double bomb attack outside a Shiite shrine near Syria's capital killed at least 20 people Saturday, in the latest in repeated deadly strikes on the revered site, state media said. The official SANA news agency said a suicide bomber and a car bomb struck at the entrance to the Sayyida Zeinab...

U.S.-backed Syrian forces made new territorial gains against Islamic State on Saturday, moving closer to another of its major strongholds in northern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Observatory said the Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), bringing together Kurdish...

Forces aligned with Libya's unity government said on Friday they had taken control of the port of Sirte, making further gains in Islamic State's North African stronghold. Brigades largely composed of fighters from Misrata advanced this week to the perimeter of Sirte's city center, after...

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 11 points in the U.S. presidential race, showing little change after she became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee this week, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. The online poll, conducted from Monday to Friday, shows 46...

Reporting by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri; Translation by Yusra Ahmed    (Zaman Al Wasl)- Children of Jabal al-Akrad and al-Turkmen, have suffered of displacement for more than three times, most of them have lost a father or a brother, or even a mother, some of them lost an arm or a leg or...

 Syrian government troops backed by Russia and fighters backed by the United States made separate advances against Islamic State on Friday, gaining ground in new offensives that have put unprecedented pressure on the self-declared caliphate. In neighboring Iraq, government troops also...

Muhammad Ali was extolled on Friday as a boxer of incomparable grace, a magnetic entertainer and a man of conviction who gave a voice to the oppressed, as a two-day celebration of "The Greatest" came to a rousing end in his Kentucky hometown. At an emotional memorial service at a Louisville...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A campaign to help and support refugees has been launched in Germany in the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. One of the pictures presented a homeless child with a caption said “Zakat means helping the weak,”...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Nour el-Din al-Zinki Movement said rebels have captured T-90 tank, the most advanced Russian tank in service, in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, rebel commander said. Rebels made gains on Thursday, taking control of al-Mallah district in the northern...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has cut short a visit to the United States and will not take part in a second day of ceremonies to commemorate the death of boxer Muhammad Ali, his office said on Friday. Erdogan,...

  Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Sheikh of Mojahidin and leader of Omar al-Mokhtar brigade died at 86 years of age, sadly in his bed before witnessing the victory he dreamed to see . Haj Hassan Laila has formed Brigade of Omar al-Mokhtar in...

Forces loyal to Libya’s unity government bombarded ISIS group positions in Sirte with heavy artillery Friday, a day after thrusting into the militant stronghold on the Mediterranean coast. The loss of Sirte, the hometown of ousted dictator Muammar Qaddafi, would be a major blow to the...

U.S.-backed forces cut off all routes in and out of the ISIS-held city of Manbij near the Syrian-Turkish border Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activist group said. The Syria Democratic Forces, supported by U.S.-led airstrikes and U.S. special forces, seized control of the...

The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State said on Friday it could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been wounded in air strikes. A spokesman of the coalition, Colonel Chris Garver, said in an email that he had seen the reports...

A food aid convoy on Thursday entered the Syrian town of Daraya, the first delivery since the start of the siege there by the Damascus regime in 2012, a Red Crescent official told AFP. “Nine lorries are currently being unloaded in Daraya. They are carrying food aid, including dry goods and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have recaptured group lost to regime forces early Thursday in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, rebel commander said. Captain Abdul Salam Abdul Razzaq, spokesman of Nour el-Din al-Zinki Movement, said rebels have killed more than 50 regime soldiers in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime extended its aerial and ground campaign on Daraya town near the capital as clashes took place in the western and southern neighborhoods, activists said Thursday. The ongoing offensive on the besieged town of Daraya seeks to end rebel presence west...

 Russia did not carry out any air strikes on Syria's Aleppo on June 8 and 9, RIA news agency cited Defence Ministry's spokesman as saying on Thursday. Earlier, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Russian strikes had been targeting hospitals in the city of Aleppo since...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Colonel Bakkour al-Salim, commander of Alweyat al-Shahid Ahmed al-Abdo, was killed on Thursday when an ISIS suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt in the rebel group's headquarters east of Damascus. Al-Salim was a member in the High Negotiations Committee and one of the...