Italy's coastguard said it helped rescue 801 migrants from two boats off western Sicily on Thursday, including many Syrians, amid signs that refugees from the Middle East are increasingly shunning the Greek route into Europe. More than a million migrants, many from Syria, have entered Europe...

The United States gave jeeps, communications technology and small aircraft to Tunisia on Thursday to help protect the border with Libya, where Islamic State has gained ground and set up training camps, officials said. The North African country was also expecting to receive a number of attack...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two rebel factions said they have killed at least 75 militants from the pro-regime Palestinian al-Quds Brigade north of Aleppo province this week. Noor al-Din al-Zinki Movement, in statement posted online, said it had killed at least 30 Quds militia militants early Thursday...

Syrian regime forces battled rebels north of Aleppo on Thursday as a ceasefire expired in the city itself, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and rebel sources said. The fighting was focused around the rebel-held Handarat area which is important because it is near the last route into...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists have launched campaign calling for lifting the siege on al-Waer neighbourhood, the last  stronghold of revolution  in Homs, because it suffers of severe shortage of food, medicine and water, threatening of humanitarian crisis...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime's mortar rounds hit crowds were waiting humanitarian aid in the besieged town of Daraya west of Damascus, killing at least two people, local activists said Thursday after aid convoy denied entry. Father and his son have been killed as dozen more have been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the Syrian National Coalition Anas al-Abdah said on Wednesday that Adana Accord (1998)  between Turkey and Syria is paving the way for Ankara to create a safe zone in Syria. On the margin of his participation in a conference titled “The recent developments in...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Regime-run news outlets reflected a widespread anger for regime supporters due to depreciation of the Syrian Pound (SP) value in front of the American Dollar. The depreciation led to a rocket increase in prices. State employees’ and workers’ salaries does not suffice for more...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels on Thursday have captured al-Zara town from regime forces in the northern countryside of Homs province, killing 13 army troops, local activists said. Homs Operation Room, an alliance of Islamist factions, have also captured al-Aaliyat and al-Qanatir checkpoints,...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Eqtsad)- The Syrian Assad regime and key ally businessman Mohamed Hamshou are involved in implementing the Iranian scheme to take over Asruniyeh and Bzuriyeh historic markets in the heart of Old City of Damascus, well-informed sources said. Well-informed sources...

Turkish artillery pounded Islamic State targets in northern Syria overnight and the U.S.-led coalition carried out air strikes, killing 28 militants near a Turkish border town repeatedly hit by rocket fire, Turkish military sources said. The artillery strikes near Kilis, north...

Iran has failed to reach agreement with Saudi Arabia on arrangements for its pilgrims to join the annual hajj in September following a severing of ties, its culture minister said Thursday. "The arrangements have not been put together and it's now too late," Ali Jannati told the official IRNA...

 Aid agencies are to deliver relief supplies to the besieged Syrian rebel-held town of Daraya Thursday, the first since 2012, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. "This is the first ever humanitarian convoy to this town in the suburbs of Damascus since the beginning of the...

 Air strikes, a drop in the price of oil, and counter-smuggling efforts by neighboring countries have combined to cut Islamic State's oil revenues in half to about $250 million per year, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Wednesday. A U.S.-led coalition has targeted the...

Attacking journalists and prosecuting critical voices fuels violent extremism rather than preventing it, the United States told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday in a thinly veiled warning to Egypt, which chaired the meeting. "Arresting journalists, sentencing reporters to...

Britain, the United States, France and Ukraine blocked a Russian proposal at the United Nations to blacklist Syrian rebel groups Jaish al-Islam and Ahrar al-Sham for links to Islamic State and al Qaeda militants, diplomats said on Wednesday. Russia made the proposal late last month and the...

Iraq said on Wednesday its U.S.-backed military campaign against Islamic State had retaken around two-thirds of the territory seized by the militants in their lightning sweep across the country's north and west in 2014. "Daesh's presence in Iraqi cities and provinces has declined. After...

Writing by Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Mariam al-Mosetif, 43, a stepmother of 3 with special need, whom she treats with all love and tenderness in the Lebanese Arsal camp, as if they her own offspring. The three of her stepsons of her husband who is16...

Turkey has killed 3,000 Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, adding that no other country is fighting Islamic State as Ankara is. NATO member Turkey was initially a reluctant partner in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and faced...

States backing Syria's peace process must stop the warring parties from attacking unlawful targets such as hospitals and other civilian sites, U.N. war crimes investigators said in a statement on Wednesday. Air strikes, shelling and rocket fire had been consistently used in recent attacks on...