ANKARA: Turkish lawmakers voted Friday in favor of an article of constitutional change that could see pro-Kurdish and other lawmakers prosecuted, with the voting indicating support would be sufficient to avoid a referendum on the issue. In a secret ballot, 373 MPs in the 550-seat parliament...

Egypt's military said its search teams found wreckage Friday from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean with 66 people on board. "Egyptian aircraft and navy vessels have found personal belongings of passengers and parts of the wreckage 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 22 civilians killed on Thursday in deadly air strikes hit rebel-held areas in the northern countryside if Homs city, local reporter said. 8 people were killed in regime's barrel bombs attack on al Aastan city, less than 24 hours since 13 family members killed in...

The United Nations will take the "last resort" option of air drops of humanitarian aid if access to besieged areas in Syria is not improved by June 1, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. Without improved aid access and some restoration of Syria's tattered cessation of...

An Islamic State militant was killed after detonating explosives strapped to their body when Turkish police raided a militant cell in a house in the southeastern city of Gaziantep on Thursday, the Dogan news agency reported. Turkish police on Monday issued a nationwide warning about possible...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- A group of enthusiastic youth from Maraba town in the Eastern countryside of Daraa have established a centre for children with special needs supported by the town's local council. The centre is intended to admit children with speech, hearing and mental...

The White House said on Thursday the crash of an EgyptAir plane over the Mediterranean was being investigated and it was too soon to determine what caused the aircraft to go down. "It's too early to definitively say what may have caused this disaster," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters on Thursday have recaptured 4 villages from moderate rebels in the northern province of Aleppo, local reporter said. In what seemed hit-and-run battles near the Turkish border, ISIS and rebels have exchanged control of the villages of al-Fairouziya,...

Zaman Al Wasl)- Fire devoured a Syrian refugee camp on Thursday in the Lebanese border town of Arsal, activists said as no casualties reported. One of the refugees told Zaman al-Wasl the fire was due to electrical failure in al-Zaeem camp. A refugee from the camp said they put the fire out...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (PYD) militia banned fuel shipments from crossing to opposition-held areas in Idlib province and Aleppo countryside which led to a rocket increase in fuel prices. A barrel of diesel reached 91000 SP while gasoline barrel 155000 SP. A field...

Tunisian special forces have killed a senior commander of an Islamic State affiliate during clashes with the group in a central, mountainous region, the Tunisian Ministry of Defense said on Thursday. Security forces are engaged in a crackdown on Islamic State militants after they carried out...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey's Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag directed sharp and public criticism at the Republican People’s Party (CHP) MP, when the MP claimed on Tuesday during a session at the parliament the Alwaite children are being massacred in Syria, reminding the MP he is talking in...

Syrian regime forces and allies including Lebanese Hezbollah fighters seized an extensive area southeast of Damascus from rebels on Thursday and fought other insurgents near a highway leading southwest, a monitoring group said. The advance is part of a wider escalation in...

NATO will on Thursday consider a bigger role for the alliance in Libya to help a new unity government push back the growing Islamic State threat, but some allies want the focus to be on a naval mission to stop refugees teeming into Europe. Just three days after world powers met in Vienna to...

  Turkey's Transport Minister Binali Yildirim emerged on Thursday as the likely new leader of the ruling AK Party and therefore the next prime minister, cementing President Tayyip Erdogan's hold on government as he seeks to extend his powers. Yildirim, 60, and a close ally of Erdogan...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Intensive and strange aircraft movement has been ongoing for a month in Hemeimem military airport, the main Russian forces stronghold in Syria, a source said from the coastal city of Jableh. The source told Zaman al-Wasl that different civil...

(The Guardian)- Fewer than 200 Syrians have been resettled in Europe under the EU’s controversial refugee deal with Turkey, figures from the European commission have revealed. EU leaders agreed in March to take one Syrian from Turkey for every irregular migrant sent back across the Aegean Sea....

An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 passengers and crew on a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt's national airline said. Officials with the airline and the Egyptian civil aviation department told Reuters they believed the Airbus (AIR.PA) A320 had...

China is the most welcoming country when it comes to refugees, according to a new survey of citizens' attitudes published on Thursday, with Germany ranking second and Britain third. In its first ever report to record global acceptance of refugees, Amnesty International surveyed more than...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Five people from the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city were wounded on Wednesday when regime snipers opened fire on a crowd queuing for bread, activists said. The severe siege pushed tens of al-Waer residents to cross regime's checkpoints to buy bread and basic needs...