(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) launched on Monday arrest campaign against Kurds and Arabs in different regions in Hasaka Province. Local Coordination Committees said YPG arrested 20 people in the entrance of Ayn al-Aroos town while they were coming from Raqqa under...

Iraqi security forces and allied fighters launched an operation on Monday to retake the town of Rutba from ISIS, the military said. Special forces, soldiers, police, border guards and pro-government paramilitaries are involved in the operation to retake the Anbar province town, Iraq's Joint...

 Reporting by Mohamed Kassah; Translation by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- A new reconciliation deal between rebels and regime is undergoing in besieged town of Moadamiyet al-Sham near Damascus, well-informed sources said. According to the sources, the deal is being facilitated by prominent...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources revealed to Zaman al-Wasl the details of the assault on the Syrian Judge Sydra Hanfi by cousin of regime  minister of justice pointing out it exceeded the violations happeneing in the right of judiciary and judges to draw a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dr. Thaer Saleh al-Taweel has withdrawn from the opposition's interim government candidacy due to violation of the National Coalition laws in enhancing opportunities for some candidates over others hours before election of new president. The general committee of the coalition...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- two civilians killed and 7 more wounded in cluster missile attack on the rebel-held town of Jisr al-Shughour in Idlib province, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. The regime bombing has also targeted the nearby towns of al-Jisr in the western countryside of Idlib...

Islamic State announced on Sunday burn of 4 Russian helicopters due to a fire in Tifour military airport in eastern countryside of Homs province. Isis News Agency Amaaq did not indicate if the fire resulted from an Isis operation. The news agency only pointed out that the fire burned 20...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- 8 civilians were killed and dozens injured in an unprecedented regime military escalation in the besieged northern countryside in Homs province. Zaman al-Wasl correspondent in Homs said the Russian and regime launched more than 50 air raids on Talbisa, Ezz al-Deen, Deir...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The effect of the regime’s decision to reduce the production capacity and working hours for the auxiliary bakeries have started to appear in regime-held area, as long crowded queues are noticed at bakeries to get small amount of bread. Damascus”, The...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- The sectarian discourse was never absent from regime media outlets. The regime media in its discourse hid a provocative sectarian discourse and it appears on the surface whenever a civilian Alwaite is killed or when the regime orders so. When the Zara village in southern...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Prominent figures from the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights who live In the southern suburbs of Damascus announced Saturday the formation of  Golan Sons Gathering. Abu Malek al-Rifaee who is in charge of the organization told Zaman al-Wasl, the...

Writing by Ethar Abul Haq (Zaman Al Wasl)- The name of Abu Mohamed al-Shimali, the key actor in attracting and recruiting thousands of Islamic State remembers, has been mentioned around 6500 times in the leaked Isis archive obtained by Zaman al-Wasl. Abu Mohamed al-Shimali who is wanted as...

Iraq's Shi'ite-led authorities have shut the offices of two television channels popular with Sunni Iraqis and ordered a satirical show off air, tightening control over the media as political tensions rise in Baghdad. The crackdown, which began in March, appears to be prompted by concerns that...

Two people were killed when a car exploded in the town of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Saturday, around 10 days after local security services warned about a possible attack, a Syrian Kurdish official said. The media officer for Kurdish internal security force, the Asayish, Abdallah...

Syrian government forces retook a hospital in Deir al-Zor after Islamic State attacked it on Saturday following a dawn offensive by the militants on the besieged eastern Syrian city, a war monitor and state media said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors...

An Egyptian court sentenced 152 protesters on Saturday to between two and five years in prison each after they demonstrated against a decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, judicial sources and state media said. Hundreds of police officers were deployed in central Cairo on...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces have breached the partial ceasefire deal in Latakia province for the third day, storming rebel strongholds in Jabal al-Krad and Jabal al-Turkmen with heavy artillery and mortars, local activists said Saturday. Abdul Rahman al-Lathqani said regime troops...

Islamic State attacked a hospital in Deir al-Zor on Saturday and seized territory on the edge of the besieged eastern Syrian city still partly controlled by the government, the militant group said. Islamic State's Amaq news agency said its fighters stormed the Assad Hospital and also took...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime and backed militias launched missile attack on the besieged town of Daraya near Damascus, field sources said Saturday. Residents of Daraya said regime plans for major attack on the town after pounding the the southern neighborhood by surface to-surface early...

Hezbollah said on Saturday its top military commander, whose death it announced on Friday, was killed in Syria by Sunni Islamist artillery fire and not by an Israeli air strike as one member of the Lebanese Shi'ite movement had said. "Investigations have showed that the...