(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Kurdish Democratic Union Party militia have allowed tens of displaced families return to their homes in al-Haul town in the eastern countryside of Hasaka, local activists said. Mohamed al-Khatuni told Zaman al-Wasl that PYD had allowed 50 families to return to their homes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran's state TV aired this week a clip urging young boys to join “liberation of Syria and Iraq” and to defend the sacred shrine by order of Iran Superem Leader Ali Khamenei. The clip called “martyrs who defend the sacred shrine” shows a group of youngsters wearing military...

Two car bombs in the center of the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Sunday killed at least eight people and wounded about 16 others, two police source said. The first blast was near the provincial council building and the second one about 60 meters (yards) away at a bus station, a police...

Yemen's Houthi movement and its armed allies seized a military base north of the capital Sanaa on Sunday, dealing a setback to a shaky ceasefire and peace talks in Kuwait aimed at ending a year-long war. Unlike most of Yemen's soldiers, those at the Umaliqa base had refused to take sides in...

Writing by Malek Eqab; Translation by Rana Abdul  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful air force Division 22 is the newly in-charge army unit for bombing the stricken city of Aleppo, source told Zaman al-Wasl as regime's devastating campaign killed 250 people and reduced huge parts of the city to...

A police officer was killed and 13 people, including nine police officers, were wounded in a car bomb attack at a police headquarters in Turkey's Gaziantep, one of two attacks on Sunday, security sources and the provincial governor said. Footage from CNN Turk broadcaster showed pieces of a...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The United States is working on "specific initiatives" to reduce the violence in Syria and sees stopping the bloodshed in Aleppo as a top priority, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Saturday. In a statement detailing calls Secretary of State John Kerry has made...

Egypt put on trial 237 activists arrested for protesting against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, judicial sources said on Saturday, the first court cases after demonstrations this month. Thousands angered by Sisi's decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia called on April 15 for his...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- “The good humble man was martyred in our neighborhood. He took his children with him to play in heaven instead of playing here, in this dirty world,” said neighbor of martyr Ahmad Malas al-Ma’rawi who was killed in Russian air strike on al-Kallaseh neighborhood of Aleppo on...

Hundreds of supporters of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed parliament inside Baghdad's Green Zone on Saturday and camped out nearby after Sadr denounced politicians' failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption. The protesters, who had...

The U.S. on Friday strongly condemned a video that shows the PKK terrorist group’s Syrian wing, Democratic Union Party's (PYD), parade with corpses of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters in Afrin, Syria. "While we can't authenticate it 100 percent, we, without hesitation, strongly condemn this...

Reporting by Elaph Qaddah; Translation by Rana Abdul (Zaman al-Wasl)- The free Syrian team for swimming garnered a silver medal in the Qatar International swimming championship for open water in Doha on Friday. The international athlete, Anas Mahmoud, won the silver medal in the 1500-meter...

A video has emerged purporting to show Isis propaganda footage that was never intended for an international audience, with a bungling group of jihadists losing a battle against the Kurds in northern Iraq and retreating in chaos. Vice News said it had obtained the video from the helmet-mounted...

Russia will not ask the Syrian regime to halt air raids on the war-ravaged city of Aleppo, because it believes they are helping to combat jihadist groups, Moscow's foreign ministry said Saturday. "No, we are not going to put pressure on (Damascus) because one must understand that the situation...

A suicide bomber killed five Kurdish policemen at a checkpoint in Syria's divided northeastern city of Qamishli Saturday, police said. Four others were wounded in the attack on the city's demarcation line, according to Jowan Ibrahim, the commander of the Kurdish police known as the Asayish....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air force backed by Russian jets on Saturday have stepped up its aerial bombing on rebel-held Aleppo city, killing 7 civilians in al-Neirab and Bustan al-Qasr neighborhoods, local activists said. The devastating air strikes have also hit most neighborhoods of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rawan Qaddah has escaped from regime detention in a complicated operation and has reached Turkey, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Qaddah, 18, who once appeared on regime TV on Sep 23, 2013, claiming 'marriage jihad' with rebels, had arrived in Turkey, after breaking out from her...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The fighting between rebels and an ISIS-linked groups in the southern province of Daraa has affected farmers lives and made decline in the agricultural production, local activists said. The clashes that erupted last month between the southern Front, Nusra...

Reformist and moderate politicians allied with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani won most seats in second round parliamentary elections, local media reported Saturday. Unofficial and incomplete results said that of the 68 seats being contested at least 33 had gone to the pro-Rouhani List of...

Government aircraft pounded rebel areas of Syria's second city Aleppo, which was left out of a deal to "freeze" fighting from Saturday despite international outrage over renewed violence. Shelling and air raids in Aleppo over the past week have killed more than 230 civilians and pushed a...