First units of Russian demining experts have arrived in Syria to demine the historic part of the ancient city of Palmyra, Russian news agencies quoted the Defence Ministry as saying on Thursday.
A new report says the United Nations and partners delivered badly needed medical and food supplies to about 150,000 people in besieged areas of Syria after a cease-fire that started last month led to a drop-off in fighting. U.N. convoys delivered supplies to people in 10 of 18 areas under...
The Syrian opposition said on Wednesday Syria needs a transitional ruling body with full executive powers and not a participatory government under President Bashar al-Assad, responding to comments made by Assad to Russian state media. "The government, whether it's new or old,...
Members of Libya's U.N.-backed Presidential Council reached Tripoli by ship on Wednesday, defying attempts to keep them out of the city and prevent them from installing a unity government. Seven members of the Council including Fayez Seraj, its head and the new government's...
The U.S. military said on Wednesday that it would deploy rotations of U.S.-based armored brigade combat teams to Europe, part of a wider effort to counter what the United States sees as Russian aggression on the continent. The teams will be on nine-month rotations starting in...
By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusar Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Maysoon Berikdar, or “Free Wisam”, a well known Syrian woman lives in Germany, she has annoyed many of well known loyal to Syrian regime by phoning them and telling them her opinion of their immoral attitude by supporting the...
President Bashar al-Assad said it would not be difficult to agree on a new Syrian government including opposition figures, but his opponents responded on Wednesday that no administration would be legitimate while he remained in office. Assad, bolstered by military victory in the...
Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement officially claims its responsibility for killing "Mihrac Ural" the commander of the so-called "committees of the Syrian resistance and a Lwa’ Iskenderun" The first person who is responsible for the massacre of al-Bayda in Banias, Syria, and accused of the...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all countries on Wednesday to accept nearly half a million Syrian refugees for resettlement over the next three years. Ban, kicking off a ministerial conference hosted by the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR in Geneva, said: "This demands an...
(Zaman Al Wasl- Photos)- 25 Civil Defense workers have finished a training course on Tuesday in the town of Jisr al-Shughour in northern Idlib province, press officer said. The town's Civil Defense center has made 14 training courses since January 2016, Ahmed al-Sheikho said. The...
When Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of most of Russia's military contingent from Syria there was an expectation that the Yauza, a Russian naval icebreaker and one of the mission's main supply vessels, would return home to its Arctic Ocean port. Instead, three days after...
Four months after President Vladimir Putin accused Ankara of a "stab in the back", Turkish business executives in Russia are getting used to saying hasty goodbyes. "Every week another friend calls to say he's leaving," one Turkish businessman based in Moscow told Reuters. "It's...
Donald Trump, turning his focus to Wisconsin even as another controversy cast a shadow over his campaign, said Tuesday he will no longer honor his pledge to support the eventual Republican presidential nominee. And his two Republican rivals, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, also...
By launching nuclear-capable missiles Iran has defied a United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed last year's historic nuclear deal, the United States and its European allies said in a joint letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Iran's recent ballistic tests involved...
Syrian army successes will help accelerate a political settlement to the country's civil war, President Bashar al-Assad said, because they weaken the position of international opponents who he accused of hindering any agreement. In an interview published as government forces,...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes carried out air strikes on northern Idlib province on Tuesday, killing a child and wounded 6 people, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. A pupil has lost his life in an air strike hit his school in al-Kastan village near Jisr al-Shughour town, while six...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Mi-28NE “Night Hunter” helicopters left Hmeymim airbase in Latakia city for T-4 and al-Shuairat airbases eastern Homs province to back regime in its major military campaign against Islamic State near the ancient city of Palmyra, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The modern...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels thwarted an attack launched by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing 10 fighters and destroying a tank, opposition accounts said. The YPG-led alliance of Kurdish and Arab factions made rapid advances...
An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus on Tuesday by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt, who was arrested after giving himself up. The passengers and crew were unharmed. Eighty-one people, including 21...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- A new fire broke out in a Syrian refugee camp on the Turkish border, killing three children and wounding seven, Turkish media and activists said on Tuesday. The fire in Derik camp near Turkish Mardin city was the second in four days. About 7,000 Syrian refugees who...
