A fragile and limited cease-fire in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and its surrounding countryside has been extended for the third time, for another 48 hours starting at 1 a.m. Tuesday morning, the Syrian military said Monday. The extension came a couple of hours before an earlier...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 8 civilians killed and 12 more wounded in vacuum missile attack on Hafsarja village in northern Idlib province, local reporter said Monday. The aerial bombing of regime war planes has also targeted towns of Ariha, Jisr al-Shughour and Maaret al-Numan, the reporter...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A picture was surfaced on Facebook page of one of regime’s fighters has revealed the fate of a young man from Khirbet Ghazale, who was killed and his body burned afterward. Yusuf al-Aji, a militant of regime militias has...

A car bomb in the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40 on Monday near a popular restaurant close to the city center, police and hospital source said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in the provincial capital of Diyala, a...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- At a time when the American media outlet CNN announced a news about the increase in Russian military presence in its Hmeimim military base, the correspondent for Latakia’s News Network, an opposition media outlet, confirmed that the unfamiliar movements the base and Latakia’s...

(Reuters)- Syrian regime forces and their allies clashed with insurgents near Aleppo on Monday and warplanes launched more raids around a strategic town Islamist rebels seized last week, a monitoring group said. The capture of Khan Touman was a rare setback for government forces in Aleppo...

The airport has reopened at the Yemeni coastal city of Mukalla which was recaptured by government and Emirati soldiers in April after a year-long occupation by al Qaeda, local officials said. The first flight in on Sunday was a plane carrying relief supplies from the United Arab Emirates (UAE),...

Syrian government forces and their allies shelled rebel-held areas in Damascus's eastern outskirts on Monday and clashed with insurgents in the area, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Mortar fire wounded nearly 20 people, some very seriously, around the town of Arbin in the Eastern...

Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hassan Mohammad Shaayto, Mukhtar of the town of Ainata in Lebanon’s Bekaa valley, died from a heart attack on Sunday after he won against his opponent Abdul Karim Harmoush. The elections were held in the Lebanese capital Beirut and the area of Bekaa...

Britain’s largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down barriers” and portray Islam positively by launching a new advertising campaign which will slap the phrase “glory to Allah” on the side of London buses. The new campaign by Islamic Relief is, ostensibly, targeted at raising...

The trial of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter after he was caught on video fatally shooting a wounded Palestinian attacker in the West Bank has started before a military court in the coastal city of Jaffa. The case has divided Israel, with defense officials criticizing the soldier's...

A tentative deal has been reached to end a strike in a Syrian prison by nearly 800 mostly political detainees that would eventually lead to the pardon and release of those held without charges, rights groups and activists in touch with inmates said on Monday. They said the deal brokered late on...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syrian journalist Kinana Allouch defends her snapped selfie with dead rebel soldiers which circulated on social media on Wednesday calling it “a celebration and victory”. Kinana Allouch a reporter of Sama TV, mouthpiece of Syrian regime, fiercely defended her selfie described...

Writing by Ali Eid; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A YouTube vidoe posted by Syrian refugee in Netherlands has goes viral after he remixed his refugee suffering with lyrics of ' Flashlight' song for the English singer Jessie J, using an the application “Sing Karaoke by Smule.”...

Syrian warplanes attacked Islamist militants near the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, both sides said, as the government tried to push back a insurgent advance in the area. Dozens of air strikes hit near the town of Khan Touman, which rebels took from forces loyal to the government and its...

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged rival jihadist fighters in Syria to unite or risk death but again decried fellow Sunni Muslim militants Islamic State as "extremists" in an audio recording posted online on Sunday. As successor to Osama bin Laden, Zawahri has the allegiance of al Qaeda...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Pro-regime Liwa al-Quds militia mourned about 50 militants on Sunday who were killed by rebel factions in an offensive on al-Zahraa neighborhood few blocks from Air Force Intelligence headquarters in Aleppo city. One of the biggest pro-regime militias in Aleppo province...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Leaders of Jaish al-Islam and Faylaq al-Rahman rebel factions signed two different proposals to name a group of personalities to resolve the dispute between the two factions in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital. Leader of Jaish al-Islam Essam Buydani signed a proposal...

(Eqtsad)- In truth it is not a cross road, but only one road and obligatory direction… it is depreciation. But the question which occupies everyone’s mind today is, “what is the speed of the depreciation? And are we witnessing a complete collapse of the Syrian Pound during a short period of...

 (Zaman Al-Wasl)- Palmyra Coordination Committee released a statement and footage on Sunday stating that Russia established a military base in Palmyra to second Russian Hmeimim military base in Latakia Province. The Syrian Revolution Palmyra Coordination Committee said in the statement...