U.S. Navy ships in the Arabian Sea intercepted and seized an arms shipment from Iran likely bound for Houthi fighters in Yemen, the military said in a statement on Monday. The weapons seized last week by the warships Sirocco and Gravely were hidden on a small dhow and included...
(ICIJ)- One morning in mid-2014, before the summer sun had reached its peak, two elderly men in Aleppo, Syria, sat on plastic chairs, chatting quietly and drinking black coffee. From his perch outside his food stall, Sabri Wahid Asfur and his friend Abu Yassin watched their neighbors go...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad intelligence does not trigger much in non-Syrians; however, the phrase triggers many different responses in Syrians and that depends on their experience with the intelligence or on the stories they have heard about each intelligence branch and its crimes....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's al Qaeda branch, the Nusra Front carried out a surprise attack on regime barracks in Khanayfes village near al-Salamiya southeastern Hama province, media activists said Monday. Homs Media Center stated that al-Nusra Front fighters infiltrated to the stronghold and...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State released a new footage accusing al-Nusra Front of using religion and Jihad describing it as a poisonous dagger stabbing Jihad and jihadists. Zaman al-Wasl could not confirm the footage published on Youtube if it is produced by Isis. The footage which includes...
U.S. President Barack Obama and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that NATO could help Libya counter Islamic State militants as well as train and assist troops in Iraq, Jordan and elsewhere to fight the insurgent group. "We are continuing to cooperate on an...
Iran has sent commandos to Syria as advisers, a military official said on Monday, suggesting it is using its army as well as paramilitary forces to help President Bashar al-Assad's forces in the country's civil war. Tehran is Assad's main regional ally and has provided military...
Tax authorities in Australia and New Zealand are probing local clients of a Panama-based law firm at the center of a massive data leak for possible tax evasion. Other jurisdictions are likely to follow suit following the leak over the weekend of details of hundreds of thousands of clients in...
Iraqi officials say a suicide attack south of Baghdad has killed at least 14 people. A police officer says the suicide bomber blew himself up on Monday inside a restaurant in Dhi Qar province that is frequented by Shiite paramilitary militia fighters. He added that at least 27...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 42 people tortured to death by Syria's security services in March, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said in new report. Two more people were tortured to death by the Islamic State group, the monitoring that tracks Syrian war's visitations said. Despite the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A meeting between Syrian regime officials and Islamic State commanders took place this week in the Palestinian Yarmouk Refugee Camp southern the capital over possible truce. A well-informed source indicated the new “emir” Abu Hamza al-Afghani and Abu Hamza al-Sheikh, “emir of...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source confirmed the regime transferred the guided Syrian planes productions’ project set up from Scientific Research Center in Damascus to Iran including experts, engineers and technicians. The source from regime military told Zaman al-Wasl, project’s...
Greece began returning migrants from the island of Lesbos to Turkey on Monday under a landmark European Union deal aimed at stopping the uncontrollable influx of migrants and refugees into Europe since last year. Under the EU-Turkey deal, Ankara will take back all migrants and...
Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointed a new vice-president and prime minister on Sunday, pro-Hadi state media reported, sacking prime minister Khaled Bahah in a major shake-up ahead of peace talks later this month. Yemen has been in a civil war for more than a year...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters took ground from Islamic State-linked groups in the western countryside of Daraa on Sunday as clashes enters third week in the southern province, activists said. FSA seized control of Masaken Jillin, former military housing, form the Yarmouk Martyrs...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Feminist Lobby condemned what it called “the dirty crime” committed in the right of all women and Syrian women specifically through the crime of human trafficking of the network discovered recently in Lebanon. The lobby stressed the necessity of doing urgent moves to...
Fishermen in Gaza can now sail farther from the coastal territory after Israel expanded the fishing zone on Sunday. COGAT, the Israeli defense body that handles civilian issues with the Palestinians, announced the new easing of restrictions on its Arabic Facebook page. About 60 boats...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday said he took offence at U.S. President Barack Obama slamming eroding press freedoms in Turkey, expressing sadness that the comments were made behind his back. "I am saddened that these kinds of comments have been made in my absence," Erdogan told...
By Ali Eid; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The outcomes of the battle between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and ISIS-allegiants armed formations in the Southern Front, Daraa and Horan in particular, is not known yet, as battles are still ongoing in the villages of Yarmouk valley and...
Syrian troops on Sunday seized the key Islamic State group bastion of Al-Qaryatain, dealing the jihadists a new blow in the country's centre a week after expelling them from Palmyra, state television said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group however said fighting was still...
