(Zaman Al Wasl)- A key rebel group that controls Bab al Salama border crossing with Turkey has appointed Qasem Qasem, defected police officer, as director for the crossing, sources said Sunday. The colonel, who defected the interior ministry in July 2012, was appointed by al-Shamiyeh Front...

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded park in Lahore on Sunday evening, killing at least 69 people and injuring 300 others, Salman Rafiq, health minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, has said. According to police, the bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest in a crowded area of...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed CAIRO (Eqtsad)- In mid 2013, the Egyptian government has enforced an entry visa for Syrian people in order to be able to enter Egypt. Syrians subsequently, were forced to buy these kinds of visa at high costs because usually no more than 5% of visa application via...

Hundreds of people have fled their homes in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul as security forces pressed ahead with an offensive aimed at recapturing the city from the Daesh terrorist group. In a Sunday statement, Iraq’s Joint Operations Command said Iraqi forces had taken in some 2,000 refugees...

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Sunday hails his troops’ victory over jihadists in the ancient oasis city of Palmyra as an “important achievement.” “This is an important achievement and fresh proof of the efficiency of the Syrian army and its allies in fighting terrorism,” Assad says of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least five civilians killed in a car bomb attack targeted the border town of Sarmada in northern Idlib province, activists said on Sunday. The blast has also left 9 people wounded in the strategic town near Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey. No rebel group has...

Drone attacks killed eight men suspected of belonging to al Qaeda in southern Yemen on Saturday night, local residents said, as a U.S. campaign against the militant group goes on amid a wider civil war in the country. Two missiles hit the fighters who had gathered in courtyards in...

Syrian government forces recaptured Palmyra on Sunday, state media and a monitoring group said, inflicting a significant defeat on the Islamic State group which had controlled the desert city since May last year. Syrian television quoted a military source saying the army and its militia allies...

Belgian prosecutors announced they have charged three men with terror offenses over the suicide attacks on the Brussels airport and subway, as organizers canceled a solidarity rally at the government's request because police are too strapped to cope. At a news conference in Brussels Saturday,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four Free Syrian Army fighters killed on Saturday in an ISIS suicide bomb attack stuck their headquarters in the southern province of Daraa, activists said. The Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, an ISIS-linked group, claimed the responsibility for the attack in Tafas town in the...

The process for a new constitution is to be accelerated to meet the expectations of Turkish people , said Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday. Davutoglu spoke during World Turkish Entrepreneurs Assembly of Foreign Economic Relations Board in Istanbul. Stating that a roadmap had...

Syrian government forces advanced into Palmyra Saturday with heavy support from airstrikes and artillery, state media and activists said, taking control of several districts in a major assault against ISIS fighters. Television footage showed waves of explosions inside Palmyra and...

 Greek police arrested six people on Saturday in an operation to break up a gang which counterfeited documents for asylum seekers on a Greek island, the coastguard said. The criminal group was active on the island of Kos, the coastguard said in a statement, adding that the authorities...

Palmyra's ancient Roman temples and archway, blown up by Islamic State fighters last year, will be restored once Syria recaptures the city from the ultra-hardline Islamist group, the head of the antiquities authority said on Saturday. Mamoun Abdelkarim told Reuters he hoped...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two prominent figures in the embattled city of Zabadani were assassinated on Friday by Lebanese Hezbollah militia, local activists said. Dr. Mohamed al-Khos, the last-based doctor in the town, and defected Colonel Abdul Karim Alloush, 56, have lost their lives when the...

 Two Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in the latest uptick in fighting with pro-Russian separatists in the country's war-torn east, a Kiev military official said Saturday. "As a result of fighting two Ukrainian servicemen were killed and another eight were wounded," Ukrainian military...

The Kremlin said Saturday that "no one is under any illusion" that it is possible to create an anti-terrorist alliance of Russia and the United States or with other Western nations, RIA news agency reported. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the statement, commenting...

Thousands of Yemenis rallied in the rebel-held capital Saturday to denounce the Saudi-led coalition that launched a military campaign against the country's insurgents a year ago, an AFP photographer said. The intervention in support of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi that began on March 26...

Egyptian prosecutors ordered the detention of four relatives of the head of an alleged criminal gang which police said was found with belongings of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni, judicial sources said on Saturday. The gang leader's wife, brother, sister, and...

Brussels Airport said on Saturday it would not reopen for passenger flights before Tuesday after suicide bombers blew themselves up in the departure hall. Bombs exploded at the airport and at a metro station in Brussels last Tuesday, killing 31 people.