French, Germans and Britons make up the highest number of foreign fighters in the Syrian rebel ranks from European countries, but Belgium is the largest contributor in proportion to its population, a Dutch study shows. Europeans fighting alongside Islamist groups in Syria and Iraq...

The U.S. military said on Friday it had started training "dozens" of Syrian opposition fighters to battle the Islamic State as part of a revamped program that aims to avoid mistakes that doomed its first training effort in Turkey last year. U.S. Army Colonel Steve Warren, a...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held a phone call on Friday in which they discussed steps needed to strengthen the ceasefire in the Syrian war, Russia's Foreign Ministry said.

(Zaman Al Wals)- Nine rebel factions operating in northern Aleppo province merged Thursday in one armed group, such a move aims to increase the effectivity of the brigades and to facilitate a unified military work, according to statement posted online. The political office of the newly-formed...

‘ ‘Abu Latifa’’ and ‘’Abu Anwar’’ spent thousands of miles to join ISIS using Twitter. “The blue bird” connected ISIS with planes’ security in Saudi Ministry of Interior “Abu Hamza” who has a master in political science was recommended by “twitter” ISIS use...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source told Zaman al-Wasl that the fate of Mihrac Ural, head of the ‘Syrian Resistance Committees’ militant group, is still unknown and death news can not be confirmed. Senior commanders of the group, which voices hostility to Turkey, said they had lost contact...

The death toll from air strikes in the Deir al-Asafir district southeast of Damascus has risen to 33, mostly women and children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. The strikes on Thursday, which the Observatory said were carried out by Syrian...

Turkey has illegally returned thousands of Syrians to their war-torn homeland in recent months, highlighting the dangers for migrants sent back from Europe under a deal due to come into effect next week, Amnesty International said on Friday. Turkey agreed with the EU this month...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Western countries of leaving Turkey alone in the fight against terror. In an exclusive interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour in Washington, which aired Thursday night, Erdogan added that those countries had not met Ankara’s expectations for...

Seven police officers were killed Thursday afternoon in a PKK bomb attack in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir, said the Turkish minister of development. Cevdet Yilmaz told reporters that 13 police officers, including one in critical condition, and 14 civilians, including one also...

At least 21 Islamic State members were killed in air strikes in Syria's eastern city of Deir al-Zor, a monitoring group said on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not clear which country's air force carried out the strikes on an Islamic State base in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime is massing troops and fighters from allied Shiite militias in Joreen camp in Ghab Plain, a move seeks to launch major offensive on rebels in Hama province, a military source said. The army officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the planned offensive to...

Architect Zaha Hadid, whose designs include the London Aquatics Centre, has died at 65.

Ten people were wounded when an explosion hit a passing police vehicle in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir Thursday, a security source said. Broadcaster Haberturk TV said the blast hit near a bus station in the city, the largest in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Ambulances rushed to...

Over 385,000 people are facing acute food insecurity in Somalia, Peter de Clercq, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, said at a press conference in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Most of the affected are in the northern part of Somalia where a severe drought has been aggravated by El...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Fatah Army Islamist group arrested late on Wednesday 12 militants in northern Idlib province said they carried out a series of assassinations and abductions, field sources said. The cell that was active in Ariha town is belonging to Jaish al-Thuwar, a key unit in the...

In a historic first, a team of 14 Turkish researchers will arrive Friday in Antarctica on a scientific mission to study the impact of climate change. The team, including medical doctors, botanists, survey and geological engineers, and oceanographers from seven Turkish universities, is set to...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( Eqtsad )- Large number of Kwashiorkor cases, a form of severe malnutrition, have been diagnosed in the town of Madaya in rural Damascus after long and severe siege forced by the Syrian regime and other sectarian militias. Dr. mohammed Darwish confirmed that...

Russian military advisers played a direct role in planning the operation to liberate the Syrian city of Palmyra from the Islamic State militants, Russia's Defence Ministry said on Thursday. Russian warplanes carried out a total of around 500 sorties, hitting more than 2,000 Islamic State...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 32 people have been killed on Thursday in regime air strikes on hospital and school in Deir al-Asafir town in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus, local Civil Defense spokesman said.