Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Humanitarian conditions in besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs city have become tragic following 3 months of suspension of the United Nations sponsored deal, civil sources said. Last December, the U.N. had brokered a truce deal in al-Waer...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Over 50,000 rescue missions have been carried out by the Civil Defense volunteer group, also known as the White Helmets, since the beginning of the Syrian revolution in 2011, senior official told Zaman al-Wasl.. About 150 thousand people from Idlib province were rescued...

Turkish air strikes in the southeastern province of Hakkari and in northern Iraq killed 11 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters on Tuesday, the armed forces said in a statement on Wednesday. It also said security operations in southeast Turkey killed three PKK fighters in Nusaybin and four in...

Australian police have detained five men suspected of planning to sail a small boat from the far north to Indonesia and the Philippines en route to joining Islamic State in Syria, officials said on Wednesday. The men were held on Tuesday after towing the seven-meter boat almost 3,000 km (1,865...

A car bomb claimed by Islamic State in a Shi'ite Muslim district of Baghdad killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 78 others on Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, the largest attack inside the city for months. Security has gradually improved in the Iraqi capital, which...

(Zaman Al Wasl TV)- Al-Waer neighborhood, last rebel stronghold in central city of Homs, is witnessing a tough siege imposed by the regime forces on the entry of flour which threats to exacerbate the starvation crisis and create a humanitarian disaster. Last December, the U.N. had brokered a...

  Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The case of the expired formula milk destroyed by customs at Bab al-Hawa border crossing, has become a high profile public matter after it was openly discussed following the clarification and justification made by the border crossing which is...

The 17-nation group backing Syria peace talks will meet next week, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday, a day after he and his Russian counterpart agreed to work to revive a "cessation of hostilities" agreement reached in February. Kerry told reporters in London he expected...

Switzerland said on Tuesday it was seeking to revoke the citizenship of a 19-year-old Swiss-Italian man identified by a former employer as a suspected jihadist who travelled to Syria to join Islamic State. The Swiss authorities believe at least 73 people have travelled to the Middle East to...

Turkish border guards have beaten and shot Syrians trying to reach Turkey, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, as fighting in the border province of Aleppo intensifies threatening to force more people to flee. HRW said in a report based on interviews with victims, witnesses and Syrian...

Islamic State said on Tuesday it had downed a Syrian army helicopter in a desert area of central Syria where heavy fighting is going on, the militant group and a monitor said. Amaq, a news agency associated with Islamic State, said the helicopter was shot down near in the Palmyra desert...

Federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty in the case against Abu Khatallah, the man charged in the 2012 attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Khatallah was captured in 2014 and brought to the United States for trial in...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- It was not enough for the Iranian regime to participate in killing Syrians and destroying their country, but the regime extended its involvement in the Syrian war to investing the images of terrible destruction, for them to become landmarks for Iranians to take their photographs...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Democratic Union Party (PYD) fighters have stopped Arabs from entering Kobani, also known as Ayn al-Arab, in the past few weeks, whether they are coming from Turkey through the border crossing of Murshed Pinar or from Islamic State controlled areas in the countryside of Aleppo...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Photo)- Ali Aqil Suleiman sits on a bench in one of the parks in Tartous city carrying a paper headed by photos of Bashar and Hafez al-Assad honoring him. The regime did not think twice about its responsibility in Ali’s two amputated legs while honoring him with a paper that...

(CNN)- Last week the Russian military brought more than a hundred international journalists, including our CNN crew, to Palmyra. The trip was orchestrated to showcase Moscow's role in liberating the ancient heritage site but it also said a lot about the Russian army's capabilities and the scale...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Major General Jayez Rayan al-Musa, the military commander of the brutal aerial campaign on northern province of Aleppo and regime’s Air Force Chief of Staff, can be ranked as one of the regime's savage officers. The Sunni General who could only assume this post after he...

Zaman Al Wasl- At least 10 people were killed in vacuum missile attack on northern Binnish town, activists said Tuesday, two days since 6 people died in similar attack. Activists said the four vacuum missiles fired into a local marketplace. Senior Ahrar al-Sham commander was among the victims....

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Finding a house to rent has become a difficult job to achieve in the Turkish city of Gaziantep lately, and if found, the cost is too high compared to before, that coincided with troubles on the Syrian-Turkish boarders and heavy displacement movement toward...

A man knifed passengers at a train station in the Munich area early on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring three, media reported, and police said they were investigating whether there was an Islamist motive to the attack. A spokeswoman said police were checking witness statements that the...