Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes between Islamic State and Peoples’ Protection Units (PYD)-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the past two days on the front lines south of al-Shadadi strategic city in southern countryside in Hasaka province, local sources reported....

(BBC)- Greek judges have ruled that a Syrian asylum seeker should not be sent back to Turkey because it is not safe. Amnesty International campaigners say the decision throws the EU-Turkey migrant deal into doubt. They say migrants in Turkey do not have basic human rights and many are at risk...

A diplomat says Iraq's border crossing with Jordan is expected to reopen in about two weeks, ending an 11-month closure and enabling the resumption of vital trade and a return of Iraqi refugees. Safia al-Souhail, the Iraqi ambassador to Jordan, said Saturday that the Trebil crossing is to open...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- 24 rebel factions proposed a 10-clause ceasefire deal to end the infighting between Faylaq al-Rahman and Jaish al-Islam in Eastern Ghouta suburbs in Damascus countryside after deadly clashes allowed regime to capture vast territory in Ghouta this...

10 civilians, including 5 women, have been killed in U.S.-led air strikes on ISIS-held town in northern Aleppo province late on Friday, activist said. 6 people were immediately killed in the International Coalition strikes on the town of Ashraf at Friday's midnight and 4 more people died of...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The education directorate in rebel-held Idlib province has received fund from Chemonics organization to cover some expenses in educational sector in the province, head of the directorate tolld Zaman al-Wasl. Jamal Shahoud said the $600,000 that...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The local council of Moadamiyet al Sham said no humanitarian aid entered for the besieged town on the outskirts of Damascus as regime forces tighten noose on 45,000 people since 150 days. The council, in statement issued on Friday, denied regime news of the Red Crescent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel group operating in the northern countryside of Homs city said on Friday 30 regime army troops were killed and wounded in al-Zara battlefront. The Operations Room of Northern Countryside of Homs, an alliance of rebel factions, said the head of regime military campaign was...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Forcible conscription of youth is continuing in the province of Hasaka, as the regime is forcing all employees to run military training sessions to recruit them later in the army, while the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and Syrian Democratic...

Tunisia's Islamist party Ennahda will separate its political and religious work, its chief said on Friday, moving away from its tradition of political Islam. Ennahda was the first Islamist party to come to power in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions and it took part...

 Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah on Friday vowed to strengthen its presence in wartorn Syria and send more leaders to the conflict, a week after its top military commander there was killed. The death of Mustafa Badreddine, who Hezbollah said was killed near Damascus by shellfire from...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes killed 8 people in the northern countryside of Aleppo, activist told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. Abdul Karim Laila, media activist, said 6 people, including one woman, have been killed in barrel bombs attack hit Khan al-Asl town in the western...

 It would be "unthinkable" for eastern Libyan forces to join a U.N.-backed unity government until militias aligned to it have been disbanded, General Khalifa Haftar, who heads up troops in the east, said in an interview broadcast on Friday. A December unity deal was meant to end the divide...

Russia has proposed to the U.S.-led coalition that they stage joint airstrikes on Syrian rebels, including militant Islamist group Nusra Front, who are not observing a ceasefire, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday. Such action would begin as of May 25 and be coordinated with...

Maria Sharapova may not play again after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium, the president of the Russian tennis federation was quoted as saying on Thursday. Shamil Tarpishchev told the R-Sport news agency that Sharapova’s situation was “bad”. The five-times grand slam...

Writing by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Funerals in Latakia for 13 members of the National Defense Forces (NDF) were were killed by hitting their vehicle with a Taw rocket launched by the rebels in the village of al-Hadada. Mohammed al-Sahili,...

Pakistani security forces have killed a senior al Qaeda commander and 13 other militants this week in raids aimed at weeding violent Islamists out of the heartland province of Punjab, security officials said on Friday. The two raids in the south of Punjab were part of a sweeping operation that...

(Zaman Al Wsl)- At least 8 people, including women and children, were killed when regime,s rocket-propelled grenades hit Khan al Sabil village in northern Idlib province, activists said Friday.

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Bread is no longer the untouchable red line, as the Syrian regime has broken its promises to keep the price of bread affordable for all people, but now bread price has almost doubled accompanied with reducing production. The price of a bag of bread...

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he is planning to assign the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's Binali Yildirim as prime minister on Sunday. Erdogan's remarks came late Thursday during a live televised event at the Presidential Palace in Ankara where he met...