Major powers failed to agree on a new date for peace talks between warring Syrian parties, the U.N.'s special envoy said Tuesday. "The issue is still waiting for some type of concrete outcome of this meeting but we cannot wait too long, we want to keep the momentum," Staffan de Mistura told...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl verified the identity of the person who appeared in a footage when he killed media official and first assistant of Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Unit militia (YPG). The data revealed the person who executed the operation is Jameel...

 Turkish police have issued a nationwide warning about possible Islamic State attacks on Thursday's national holiday, state media said, with military facilities seen as targets after the army stepped up attacks on the militants in Syria. Both Islamic State (IS) and Kurdish militants have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of armed me from a tribe in Badiyet Palmyra attacked al-Raqban camp on Monday on the Syrian Jordanian borders. Palmyra Coordination Committee said the attackers which it describe as bandits under the protection of Free Syrian Army (FSA) stormed the tents of the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 civilians, including two children, were killed on Tuesday when regime forces opened fired on minibus in Khan al-Sheeh town on the western outskirts of Damascus, activists said. Local Coordinations committees said regime forces backed by allied militias have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 people killed on Monday in ballistic missile attack on al-Sukkari neighborhood in northern Aleppo city, medics and activists say. A family of three members were among the casualties as 20 more people were wounded, said Dr. Abu Jafar Kahil, the head of forensic...

Rebel fighters and officials in a besieged Syrian town on the outskirts of Damascus believe government forces are preparing an assault after they turned back an aid convoy last week. Daraya, situated close to a large air base and just a few kilometers (miles) from President Bashar al-Assad's...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Prices of milk and dairy products have soared recently in most markets of Homs and countryside. The price of a kilogram of cow milk reached to 170 S.P in North countryside of Homs, and 200 S.P in the Eastern countryside The price of goat milk ranged around...

ISIS has continued losing control over territory across Iraq and Syria, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday, including almost half of what it had once held in Iraq. The Defense Department had previously estimated that ISIS fighters had lost control of about 40 percent of the territory they...

Senior envoys from world and regional powers are to meet once again in Vienna Tuesday in an effort to salvage stumbling efforts to halt Syria's bloody civil war. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov -- diplomacy's odd couple, at loggerheads over much...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A man and woman were killed on Monday as 10 more people were wounded in regime mortar fire on the besieged neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs city, residents said. Despite the U.N.-brokered truce reached last December, the Syrian regime has never abide by the ceasefire deal....

A top United Nations official urged Greece on Monday to stop detaining refugee and migrant children, some of whom are locked up in police cells for weeks, and to develop child protection services instead. The U.N. Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crepeau, said he...

Turkish authorities on Monday detained seven suspected ISIS members, including figures described as a senior leader and an "executioner", the state-run Anatolia news agency said. The seven suspects were detained during raids on addresses in the eastern region of Elazig. Large numbers of...

WASHINGTON: The White House confirmed on Monday that Ben Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser, would not testify at a House oversight panel on Iran on Tuesday. The panel had asked Rhodes to appear after a New York Times article had suggested that he had manipulated the public debate...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Cairo Wednesday for talks with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, amid a stark crackdown on political freedoms in Egypt. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Kerry would fly to Cairo after talks on the Syrian crisis in Vienna and before heading...

 A century after Britain and France secretly mapped out a Middle East they would control upon defeating the Ottomans in World War One, its borders have been blurred by sectarian bloodshed - and some in the region see opportunity in the chaos. These include Israelis or Kurds who seek to...

 Islamic State efforts to exploit chaos may have brought Saudi-backed forces and Iran-allied Houthis tentatively closer at peace talks in Yemen's civil war, but a deal seems unlikely in time to avert collapse into armed, feuding statelets. Ferocious conflict along Yemen's northern border...

Reporting by Mohamed al-Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Prices are soaring in Hasaka province as a result of the raise in the exchange price of US Dollar, closing crossing points to the province which led to limiting the amount of essential goods like vegetable, sugar and tea. A...

Libya's U.N.-established presidency council has effectively given the go-ahead for 18 government ministers to start work, even though they have not received backing from the parliament based in the country's east. Monday's development is an effort to bypass a political deadlock that continues...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An alliance of rebel factions have launched a counter attack against regime forces on Monday near the newly captured town of al-Zara in southern countryside of Hama province, local media center said. Hama Media Center and Hama News agency said fighters of the Northern...