U.S. President Barack Obama formally endorsed fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for president on Thursday, describing himself as eager to get out and campaign for her, days after she gained the delegates needed to secure the party's White House nomination. "I don't think there has ever...
The Israeli military on Thursday revoked permits for 83,000 Palestinians to visit Israel and said it would send hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank after a Palestinian gun attack that killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv. There was no immediate claim of responsibility...
Reporting by Abdul Salam Bakri; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- In a surprising manner, Syria's oil ministry withdrew the drilling and excavating machinery from al-Mashaheer neighborhood in Latakia city few days go. Conflicting reports say it was by Russian orders or it is due a...
Turkey condemned Russian airstrikes on mosques, hospitals, schools and other civilian buildings in Syria Thursday and said such crimes would not go unpunished. Russian strikes had been targeting hospitals in the city of Aleppo since Wednesday, the foreign ministry said in a statement,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained special photos showing missiles, bombs and artillery shells fıred by regime warplanes and artillery on villages and towns in Homs northern countryside and Hama southern countryside; however, these bombs and shell did not explode, sources said. According...
Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian refugees wait impatiently for Ramadan to come close to God who became their only refuge after all the world has given up on them. The Syrians in Malatya camp southwest of Turkey are satisfied with the...
Turkey's prime minister ruled out talks with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Wednesday after a spate of attacks blamed on the militants killed at least 17 people this week. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the outlawed group had made a bid for dialogue after almost a year of...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists released images on Wednesday of Israeli food baskets with Hebrew writing on them being distributed in Quneitra’s liberated countryside in the displaced persons camps close to the border with occupied Golan. The released images evoked the anger of the Free Quneitra...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Prices in the first day of Ramadan were shockingly high to Syrian people live in the Turkish city of Gaziantep. The price of a medium-sized piece of Marook reached to TYR 6 (almost $2) while one kilogram of date reached to TYR 8 ($2.7) and the tamarind TYR...
France has deployed special forces in northern Syria to advise the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting the ISIS group, a defense ministry official said Thursday. "The offensive at Manbij is clearly being backed by a certain number of states including France. It's the usual support -- it's...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian network of Human Rights has documented that the Syrian regime had killed 19773 children since march 2011, 297 of them were killed by sniping, and 159 under torture, while 10891 were detained, 2716 of them are still in detention. The...
Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- No Rebel faction on Syrian soil has paid as much of a price from its leaders’ blood as the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham movement did. Many leaders of the movement have been killed in a series of assassinations which stir many...
: ISIS' far-flung enemies in Syria and Iraq pressed ahead on Wednesday with major advances on multiple fronts that have put some of the greatest pressure on the ultra-hardline Islamists since they declared their caliphate two years ago. A spokesman for a U.S.-backed alliance in northern Syria...
e United States underestimates the long-term impact of civilian deaths on the success of military missions and is failing to implement lessons learned from 15 years in Afghanistan, according to a report released Wednesday. While the US military is committed to avoiding civilian casualties, the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State had a surprise withdrawal from nine villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo, sources said. According to the sources, Isis withdrew from Sandaf village and Kafr Kalbeen and Kaljabreen towns and hence lifted the blockade off Mare’ city. Isis as well withdrew...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Strokes and heart attacks as causes of death have risen in Syria to become almost two third of the total natural causes. Dr. Hussein Nofal, the head of Forensic medicine in the Syrian regime's Ministry of Health reported that stroke and heart attack and...
Syrian government air strikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of divided second city Aleppo killed at least 15 civilians Wednesday, an activist said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 10 of the dead came in raids just outside the Al-Bayan hospital in the Shaar neighborhood....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A weapon-loaded vehicle on Wednesday was exploded near regime bastion in the southern city of Swieda, activists said. According to the initial information, the vehicle driver refused to stop for a check by army soldiers near Salkhad village who opened fire in return.
Rebel groups broke through an ISIS siege around an opposition-held town in northwestern Syria Wednesday, reopening their main road to the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The rebel groups besieged in the town of Marea had launched a counter attack against ISIS...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hassan al-Masri, prominent media activist, was killed on Tuesday in regime aerial bombing on the besieged town of Daraya west of Damascus. Since the Syrian revolution erupted in March 2011, al-Masri who also known as al-Dairani, was one of the most active citizen...
