(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces took parts of Salah el-Din neighborhood in northern Aleppo city from Free Syrian Army factions due to a surprise attack, local reporter said Saturday. The clashes still underway in the strategic neighborhood as regime forces backed by Russian air...

GENEVA (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian opposition's spokesperson, in a press conference held Saturday, said the proposal saying that Bashar al-Assad can stay along with 3 MPS is totally not accepted and even was not delivered by the U.N special emvoy. "Any proposition outside Geneva 1 and outside...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local council of Free Homs Governorate appealed on Friday to the negotiating parties in Geneva to break the siege of al-Waer neighborhood in central province of Homs. The statement, seen by Zaman al-Wasl, called on the different boards, international and local institutions,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters took at least 11 villages from regime army and rebel factions in northern Aleppo province, activists said Saturday. Activist Omar al-Shamali told Zaman al-Wasl that Isis had taken villages of Tel Shaeer, Bragheed and Qasajek in the northern countryside...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish Democratic Union (PYD) launched major campaign in the last two days to arrest young men in countryside of Hasaka province to recruit them in the fight against Isis. Activist Mahmoud al-Ahmad said that military discipline groups affiliated with PYD...

Pope Francis arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday, turning the world's attention to the frontline of Europe's migrant crisis which has claimed hundreds of lives in the past year. Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, was scheduled to spend...

MASHIKI, Japan (AP) — Two powerful earthquakes a day apart shook southwestern Japan, killing at least 29 people, injuring 1,500, trapping many beneath flattened homes and sending thousands to seek shelter in gymnasiums and hotel lobbies. The exact number of casualties remained...

 Thirty thousand Syrians sought refuge near the Turkish border Friday after the Islamic State group targeted three other camps in the northern province of Aleppo, according to Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) officials. IHH staff working at the Turkish-Syrian border told Anadolu...

Mashiki (Japan) (AFP) - A more powerful quake hit southern Japan early Saturday, killing at least seven people, toppling large buildings and triggering a massive landslide just over a day after an earlier tremor which left nine dead. The quake on the southwestern island of Kyushu...

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed GENEVA (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian opposition's chief Negotiator told Zaman al-Wasl that the High Negotiations Committee will be completely abide by the revolution’s principles and the Syrian people's demands in the ongoing talks in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese security arrested Friday a Syrian army defector in a border town with Syria, according to the National News Agency. Pilot Lieutenant Colonel, Hassan Khalid al-Haloush, was arrested in Jdaidet al-Fakiha town and had been referred to the court, the agency said....

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Abu Hamed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Representatives of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other revolutionary armed formations presented summary with evidence about the connection between the Syrian regime and the Islamic State (ISIS). The press...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two civilians killed and 6 more wounded in regime air strikes on the northern countryside of central Homs province, activists said Friday. Regime war planes carried out 6 strikes on Rastan city, killing a father and his son, and leaving 6 more people dead, according to...

The 13th Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit in Istanbul ended on Friday with the adoption of a joint resolution on Palestine, the organization’s 2016-2025 action plan and an ‘Istanbul Declaration’. “Decisions that we have taken in Istanbul give hope to billions of people,”...

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) said on Friday that it deplored what it called Iran’s “interference” in the internal affairs of regional and member states including Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and Somalia and its “continued support for terrorism”. A final communique from the two-day...

At least 210 combatants died in a surge in violence around the second city of Aleppo this week, an activist group said Friday. Among those killed from Sunday to Thursday were 82 army troops and pro-government militiamen, 94 members of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Al-Nusra Front and allied rebel...

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed The Syrian regime delegation has arrived Geneva Friday to participate in the third round of indirect talks that officially started two days ago. The U.N. sepcial envoy to Syria Staffan De Mistura is due to meet the regime’s and...

Writing by Faris al-Refai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Salma al-Ghazali, was forced one day in 2013 to say good bye to her home town , Khirbet Ghazale, about 12 miles (17 km) northeast Daraa city, when she with her family found no option but to leave the town with hundreds of...

Syrian regime army backed by Russian warplanes launched an assault north of Aleppo on Thursday, threatening to block a vital rebel route into the city in fighting that has cast new clouds over Geneva peace talks. Syria's recent upsurge in fighting, particularly around the...

(Zaman Al Wasl- EQTSAD )- The humanitarian and innovative initiatives vary within the milieu of Syrians in Turkey with the variety of directions, orientations, and issues organizers want to address. We rarely find an initiative that achieves general aims and reaches a segment of society other...