Turkish warplanes destroyed bunkers, gun emplacements, and ammunition depots belonging to the terrorist PKK organization in northern Iraq early Sunday. Speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking with the media, military sources said that Turkish warplanes carried out...

The Turkish Armed Forces destroyed three rocket launchers and three cars and "neutralized" a total of 55 ISIS militants in northern Syria on Saturday evening, according to military sources. Speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media, the sources...

A Saudi soldier died in a gunbattle with militants in the western Taif region outside Mecca Sunday, state news agency SPA said. Two assailants opened fire on a police station before retreating to the mountain village of Thaqeef where the soldier, named as private Saeed al-Harithy, was killed in...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Painting telling a story of a woman emerging from under the rubble and her face covered in blood and dust by the mixed media artist Syrian Husam Aloum went viral on social media. Human rights advocate Anwar Malik called the painting “Syria Lisa” (merging Syria and Mona Lisa)...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused European countries of hypocrisy in pressing his country on terror laws while "sidelining democracy" at home in their own fight against terrorism. "Those who criticise us are reduced to sidelining democracy and freedoms when bombs...

(Al Arabiya English)- The election of Sadiq Khan as London’s first Muslim mayor has been welcomed by all walks of life from popstars and sporting personalities to human rights lawyers and US presidential hopefuls. His victory was significant, not only because the Labour Party - of which he is...

Unidentified gunmen killed eight policemen including an officer in an attack on a police vehicle in Helwan, south of Cairo, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

Three Spanish freelance journalists who went missing in Syria last year and were believed to have been kidnapped have been released, the Spanish government said on Saturday. The three men - Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre - disappeared last July. They were working on an...

Conditions were worsening in a Syrian prison where nearly 800 mostly political detainees have launched a revolt, with security forces failing in an attempt to storm the facility overnight, rights groups and activists said on Saturday. The prison has been surrounded by government forces since...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- A group of Kurdish self-administrations officials held a meeting on Friday where dozens were invited from al-Bakara tribe in Sukar al-Ahmeer in Hasaka western countryside. The meeting is one in a series to promote Democratic Union of North of Syria regime announced in Rmaylan...

Several Iranian soldiers were killed near Aleppo, the Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, in what appeared to be one of Iran's biggest losses in Syria since it deployed forces to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Islamist insurgents on Friday seized the strategic village of Khan...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Saturday replaced his veteran oil minister and the central bank governor in a major reshuffle of senior positions a week after announcing big economic reforms. Salman also named new ministers to run the water, transport, commerce, social affairs,...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Islamic State captures half of al-Muhur gas field north west of Palmyra following an Isis offensive on regime strongholds on Friday, activists reported. Isis captured the regime defensive locations of the field which led to regime withdrawal to the other part of the field....

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Six civilians including 5 children were killed by International Coalition bombing targeting Ihtimalat village on Saturday in northern Aleppo countryside. Coordination Committees said regime warplanes raided al-Rashideen neighborhood, Reef al-Muhaniseen area, and Kafar Naha...

Russia's defense ministry said a "regime of calm" truce in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and parts of Latakia province had been extended "for 72 hours beginning at 1 a.m. on Saturday" (1700 ET on Friday), Syrian state news agency SANA reported. A fragile local truce had been in place for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Money-change offices stop selling Dollar for Syrian Pound in Latakia due to big decrease in the value of the Syrian pound. One dollar equaled 580 Syrian pounds on Thursday to go beyond 600 on Friday. Mutaniuos owner of the money exchange company said the money changers stopped...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Torrential rain have hit the countryside of Latakia on Friday morning caused serious destruction for the already worn out tents in the temporary camp of displaced residents who left their villages after controlling them by regime forces with the help...

Turkish soldiers have killed five people in the southeastern Turkish province of Gaziantep as they were trying to cross into Syria to join Islamic State and have detained five others, the provincial governor's office said on Friday. Gaziantep borders the Turkish province of Kilis, which has...

Syrian regime forces on Friday broke into Hama central prison after 5 days of revolt, killing at least two inmates, according to inmates, activists and footage posted online by inmates amid deep concerns of an imminent massacre. Regime troop who have been surrounding the prison since Monday,...

An assailant attempted to shoot a prominent Turkish journalist Friday outside a courthouse in Istanbul just before the verdict in his trial on charges of revealing state secrets was due to be announced, a Reuters witness said. The assailant shouted "traitor" before firing at least three shots...