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Official says 19 passengers killed in Pakistan bus accident

A head-on collision between a passenger bus and truck killed at least 19 passengers, including women and children, in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Wednesday, a rescue official said. Several people were also injured in the accident near the city of Faisalabad in Punjab province, said...

Kurdish National Council joins Syria Peace Talks in Geneva

Reporting by Hussein Al Zoubi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Round three of Geneva talks to start on Wednesday, as the Kurdish National Council attends seeking recognition of Kurds’ rights in the new constitution. The opposition's High Negotiations Committee arrived Tuesday to...

Car bomb kills Fatah official in southern Lebanon

Fathi Zeidan, a leading member of the Palestinian Fatah movement, was killed by a car bomb in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, according to a Lebanese security source. The incident reportedly occurred outside the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon’s southern city of Sidon. The...

Syrians' top six challenges in Turkey and govt response

Reporting by Orawa al-Sousi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (EQTSAD)- Dozens of problems face Syrians living in Turkey, classified under 6 files by the "Turkish-Syrian Friendship Association" to discuss them with Turkish officials at high levels, including the Minister of Syrian Refugees’ Affair...

Kurdish-led forces graduate first batch of militants

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced first batch of graduates’ fighters on Sunday following training in one SDF camp in countryside of Qamishli in Hasaka Governorate. Ronahi TV Channel, spokesperson of Democratic Union Party self-administration said 200 fighters...

UN airdrop delivers aid to besieged Deir ez-Zor

The UN has carried out its first successful humanitarian airdrop in Syria, the organization said Monday. On Sunday, food packages from the World Food Program (WFP) were parachuted to the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor, where 200,000 civilians have been besieged by Daesh forces since March 2014....

900 Yemeni children killed in 2015: UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) said Monday that 900 children were killed during the armed conflict in Yemen last year. “In the past year, the United Nations verified a significant increase in grave violations against children by all parties to the conflict in Yemen,”...