(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regional spokesman of the U.S. Foreign Affairs Jared Kaplan stated to Zaman Al Wasl in a sidelines of the Geneva talks that his country believes the only way to end the bloodshed in Syria is through negotiations under a U.N. supervision. "We expect the negotiations to...

Syria's main opposition group is willing to share membership of a transitional governing body with current members of the government of President Bashar al-Assad, but not with Assad himself, the group's spokesman said in Geneva. "There are many people on the other side who we...

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl) - The U.N Envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, met with a delegation of Cairo Platform on Thursday in Geneva after meeting with the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) the day before. Jihad Makdissi, a member of Cairo...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian refugee family reported their daughter Sarah sexual harassment by a Red Cross shelter officer in Hoxter town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. German media outlets said the Syrian family had taken refuge in Germany last year. Their daughter of 7 Sarah was...

A Syrian jet plane was probably shot down on Thursday by Islamic State militants near a military airport in southern Syria but the pilot appears to have been rescued, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had received information that the hardline group...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops exchanged fire with rebels in the contested northern city of Aleppo on Thursday in a renewed bout of fighting that could further mar peace talks underway in Geneva. Government warplanes, helicopter gunships and artillery were bombarding rebel-held parts of...

China on Thursday urged U.N. Security Council members to back a draft resolution demanding states report when militants are developing chemical weapons in Syria. Some diplomats have dismissed the proposed resolution as a bid to distract from accusations the Syrian government uses such weapons....

Pakistani gangsters on Thursday killed six policemen and took hostage 24 people, including police, during a raid to clear an island hideout in the south of prosperous Punjab province, authorities said. The operation to flush out the gangsters entered its ninth day as 1,600 security officials,...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- An exceptional document in the special archive proves that one of the personal guards of Azerbaijan President Ilaham Heydar Aliyev joined Isis in a batch of 400 fighters who joined Isis in 2014. They were incorporated in a camp for military...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday proposed a body within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to solidify and institutionalize cooperation against terrorism. “It is necessary to conduct operations against terror organization on the ground, while there should [also] be...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 1200 soldiers from Iran's regular army have joined the ongoing fighting in northern Aleppo province, ten days after Tehran announced the deployment of army commandos to help Bashar al-Assad, well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl. At least 12 Iranian C-130 crafts...

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State in Syria and Iraq had put the militant group on the defensive, shrinking its territory and striking key leaders. "We have momentum and we intend to keep that momentum," Obama told reporters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Parts of northern Hasaka province have been hit with flooding in the past two days, forcing evacuations and causing damage in houses and bridges, activist told Zaman al-Wasl. Activists Omar al-Shami said people of Tel al-Shayer, Haddaj and al-Tarraf villages have been...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's speech on Wednesday was meant to staunch uproar over the transfer of two islands to Saudi Arabia, but his reprimand to an audience member ignited a furor over free speech. Parliamentarians, ministers and senior editors were invited to the...

Syria's parliamentary elections on Wednesday are a "sham" organized by "an oppressive regime," France's foreign ministry said, adding that viable elections could only take place after a political transition and new constitution. "France denounces this sham of an election organized by the...

Macedonian police fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse around 50 migrants stranded in Greece who tried to pull down part of the razor wire fence separating the two countries, a Reuters witness said. Scuffles briefly broke out and Greek riot police later intervened to break up the crowd....

Reporting by Hussein al-Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The chief of opposition's High Negotiations Committee assured that discussing the transitional ruling body with full executive powers and not a participatory government under Bashar al-Assad is the opposition's main...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplane staged an air strike on a field hospital in Hama province, killing doctor and wounding medics. The strike hit al-Maghara hospital, also known as the cave, in Kafr Zeita town in northern countryside of Hama by vacuum missiles, killing doctor Hassan...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State and Nusra Front battling in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus have made a prisoner swap early Wednesday, Zaman's local reporter said. As clashes enters the seventh day in the Palestinian camp, Nusra Front has delivered ISIS two wounded fighters...

Syrians voted in a parliamentary election in government-held areas of the country on Wednesday in what voters called a show of support for President Bashar al-Assad, who is holding the poll in defiance of opponents seeking to oust him. The election is going ahead independently of a U.N.-led...