Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Abo Khalid have lost his brother-in-law and all his children, he will never hear the word “uncle” after that, but the tragedy is that he does not know where they graves are, to at least visit them and pray for them, this is one of the uncountable...

The leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Friday the Islamist group was "not calling for war" with Israel, and that Egypt and other parties were working behind the scenes to defuse the worst flare-up in violence since a 2014 conflict. Israel's military has traded blows with Hamas over the past few...

Iraqi security forces ramped up their presence across Baghdad on Friday, blocking most major roads and bridges to keep followers of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr from reaching the government district they stormed a week earlier. A Sadr representative meanwhile called on supporters to...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A surprising act of the Syrian regime prevented residents of the countryside of Latakia who left to the city from returning to their villages under its control. The news of dismissing and denying access of people to their villages after leaving them...

Turkish warplanes attacked and destroyed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant targets in northern Iraq early on Friday, including shelters and gun positions, military sources said. Turkey has been carrying out regular attacks on PKK camps and related targets in the mountainous region of...

Rebels seized a village from government forces near Aleppo overnight, a monitoring group and rebel sources said on Friday, gaining important ground near the Syrian city where the United States and Russia are trying to de-escalate the war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 73 people...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The mobile clinics campaign started two weeks ago on the Turkish Syrian border as part of an initiative of the organization Tulip for Syria Relief in the city of Reyhanli. The campaign targets Syrian refugees living in villages far from areas with health clinics and it offers...

ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- The foggy Turkish political scene is reflecting on the price of the national currency quickly and clearly after the Turkish Lira witnessed a visible improvement in recent months that enabled it to achieve a gain against the dollar. However, what took the Lira months...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman Al Wasl launched Thursday its online TV channel in a move seeks to deliver the Syrian news directly from people on the ground to the world in Arabic and English. The newly-born media tribune aims to tell the truth without frills. Islamic State's leaks, Zaman's...

 Air strikes killed at least 28 civilians Thursday in a camp for the displaced in northern Syria near the Turkish border as a 48-hour ceasefire took hold in Aleppo. The truce came after fierce violence in and around Aleppo and was made possible as President Bashar al-Assad's regime and...

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday announced he was stepping down as ruling party chief and premier, in a shock resignation set to further boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's growing powers. Divisions between Davutoglu and Erdogan that had been rumoured for months...

By Abdul Mounem Halabi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The route between areas controlled by the Islamic State and those in North countryside of Aleppo under the Free Syrian Army’s (FSA) control is still closed amid beat and defeat battles which have intensified when the FSA controlled...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A new round of clashes erupted on Wednesday between Islamic State fighters and Nusra Front in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus left 4 ISIS militants killed, activists said. The skirmishes have intensified in the last few weeks between who once were one...

A double bomb attack Thursday in central Syria killed at least 10 civilians and wounded 40 others, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. State television also reported dead and wounded in the suicide attack and car bombing in a square in Mukharram al-Fawqani in Homs province.

Turkey's state-run agency says a salvo of rockets has struck southern Turkey, wounding four people. The Anadolu Agency said three rockets struck the Turkish town of Kilis early Thursday. The rockets were fired from ISIS group-controlled territory in Syria, according to the private Dogan News...

A raid on Egypt’s journalists’ union head office this week could intensify opposition to President Abdel Fattah el Sisi, according to analysts. On Sunday, police stormed the headquarters of the press syndicate in Cairo, arresting two journalists for allegedly inciting protests and plotting to...

Turkey's ruling party is set to replace Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at an extraordinary congress in the coming weeks, officials said on Wednesday, signaling the end of his term as premier and plunging the country into political uncertainty. The decision, confirmed to Reuters by five AK...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has blocked the U.N. aid delivery to the besieged rebel-held areas, including the Eastern Ghouta district and war-ravaged city of Aleppo. The U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday that Bashar al-Assad's government had refused U.N. demands to...

Real Madrid defeated Manchester City 1-0 thanks to an own goal in the first-half on Wednesday to line up a Champions League final against city rival Atletico Madrid. The winner came after Gareth Bale’s superb strike from a tight angle in the 20th minute deflected off defender Fernando, giving...

(Eqtsad)- Al-Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, stormed on Tuesday al-Khuyan village in Idlib countryside using tanks, a well-informed source said.   They stormed the main money exchange market in the town to confiscate up to a million dollars that belonged to a currency trader...