The European Union warned Egypt on Monday over the recent storming of a labor union building in Cairo and the arrest of journalists. The statement comes after the country’s security forces raided the Egyptian Press Syndicate's offices on Sunday. Undercover police officers detained two...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian regime helicopter has crashed near al-Seen military airport east of Damascus near the Iraqi border due to technical failure, source told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. The three crew members, Pilot Colonel Anwar Masoud, Pilot Major Mohamed Baddour and a mechanical, have...

Writing by Abdul Hafiz al-Houlani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Following the eruption of the Syrian revolution and the violent reaction and unprecedented suppression by the Syrian regime, people in Syria have become worried about their lives from saying even a word, as the...

One person was killed and some were wounded when two rockets fired from ISIS-controlled Syria landed near a school and in a street in the Turkish border town of Kilis on Monday, a security source said. The Turkish military returned fire into Syria, hitting ISIS targets, the source said. The...

  Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman Al Wasl)- “when the fox is caught, he plays dead,” an expression a colleague on Facebook “made as a special dedication to BBC’s professional consciousness and the English humanitarian consciousness on the eve of their...

Syrian government troops surrounded Hama prison in the west of the country on Monday and fired tear gas after inmates revolted, seizing several guards, a monitoring group reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said inmates were protesting against the planned transfer of a number of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 200 people, including 8 women, have been arrested by Regime forces in the coastal city of Baniyas on Monday, local activists said. Regime media, in its usual reference to locals as terrorists, confirmed carrying out detentions stating, “detaining a number of terrorists”...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Once Syria's powerful rebel alliance, the Army of Conquest, is due to reunite after months of discord and rifts, pushed by the regime's major offensive on northern province of Aleppo, senior rebel commander said Monday. The alliance that was formed in March 2015, and took vast...

Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad Monday, killing at least 14 people, including Shiite Muslim worshipers conducting an annual pilgrimage inside the capital, police and medical sources said. The largest blast, which ISIS said it was behind, came from a parked car bomb in the Saydiya...

The United States and its allies conducted 25 strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria Sunday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released Monday. In Iraq, 18 strikes near nine cities hit nine of the militant group's tactical units, a financial center, several tunnels and...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is to host U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura for talks on Syria in Moscow Tuesday, the foreign ministry said. "Talks between Mistura and Sergei Lavrov followed by a press conference will take place" in Moscow, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told AFP Monday.

Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq: Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 1500 displaced people from Deir Ezzor, Raqqa, and Aleppo were expelled from Sweida province over claims of being terrorists and come from areas controlled by the Islamic State. The human rights breach was carried...

The Syrian army Monday confirmed an earlier Russian announcement that a "regime of calm" around Damascus had been extended for another 48 hours, state television reported. The military Sunday had extended a 24-hour lull in fighting in the capital which was announced Friday that affects the...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday talks with Russia and coalition partners were "getting closer to a place of understanding" on renewing a ceasefire in Syria, including around the city of Aleppo. "We're getting closer to a place of understanding, but we have some work to do, and...

Egyptian police on Sunday raided the press syndicate in Cairo and arrested two journalists critical of the government, a syndicate official and reporters said in what the syndicate called an unprecedented crackdown. The interior ministry denied officers had stormed the press labor union...

   (Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters killed 14 regime soldiers in surprise attack on al-Shaer gas field east of Homs city, sources said Sunday. 20 more soldiers were wounded in the attack as clashes are still ongoing amid fears that regime may lose the strategic field to favor...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- One of the most popular newspaper in Sweden has published a long report about Swedish jihadists who joined the Islamic State in Syrian in collaboration with Zaman al-Wasl. A report confirmed the authenticity of ISIS leaked documents. Expressen...

(Eqtsad)-  While the Syrian regime and Russia continue their unprecedented military escalation on opposition-held areas in Aleppo city, killing hundreds of civilians, the regime’s thug groups “Shabiha” raid and rob the industrial city of Aleppo. Regime supporters like manufacturer...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- Syria's regime has threatened to bomb al-Waer neighborhood of central Homs city and to escalate military operations if the local negotiation committee did not agree to give in a batch of fighters in exchange of 140 detainees in the Central Prison, local sources told Zaman...

Military sources say at least two Islamic State militants have been killed by U.S.-led coalition drones launched from Turkey. Two MQ-1 Predators took off from southern Turkey's Incirlik base in Adana on Saturday and hit a building inside Syria being used to produce explosives and car bombs,...