Syrian state television said government forces fought their way into Palmyra on Thursday as the army backed by Russian air cover sought to recapture the historic city from Islamic State (IS) insurgents. A monitoring group said the fighting was still outside the city, after a...

Syrian government and opposition parties at peace talks in Geneva are expected to agree on Thursday to a document drawn up by a U.N. special envoy outlining basic principles in what one diplomat described as a "baby step" forward. With a fragile ceasefire in place in Syria,...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Civil defense in Daraa, the pioneer in liberated areas in Syria, has a satisfying and successful experience in helping and rescuing inured people besides sheltering the displaced, despite difficulties and the threatening and targeting the staff by the...

Iraq's armed forces started on Thursday an offensive against Islamic State militants in the region around Mosul, pushing them out from several villages, according to a military statement on state TV.``The first phase of the Fatah (Conquest) Operation has been launched at dawn to...

(Zaman Al Wasl- AFP)- Turkey has detained a Japanese citizen in the south of the country on suspicion of seeking to cross the border into Syria to join ISIS, the Dogan news agency said Wednesday. The young man aged 24, named as M.M., was detained late Tuesday in the Nizip district of the...

Security officials have told The Associated Press that the ISIS has trained at least 400 attackers and sent them into Europe for terror attacks. The network of interlocking, agile and semiautonomous cells shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria. The...

(The Daily Sabah)- Turkish authorities previously arrested one of the perpetrators of the Brussels suicide bombing less than a month after his arrival in Turkey via Antalya airport, Daily Sabah has learned. Ibrahim El Bakraoui (29), one of the two brothers identified by Belgium...

The warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a cessation of hostilities starting at midnight on April 10 and peace talks in Kuwait beginning April 18, United Nations special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on Wednesday. There have already been several failed attempts to...

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that peace talks on the Syria conflict taking place in Geneva were always set to be long and difficult, and that it was too early to talk about patience running out on any side of the negotiations. Peskov was replying to a Reuters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The leaked ISIS personal data obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed that Radwan Haqawi and Tareq Jadoun, who were killed by Belgian police in mid January 2015, were listed on the ISIS jihadi network. Haqawi and Jadoun shot dead during police raids in Belgium for being part of an...

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria is planning to issue a paper on a "potential common vision", the head of the Cairo group of activists said on Wednesday. "We have heard from Mr. (Staffan) de Mistura that he will issue a paper on a potential common vision. It is not...

Two brothers carried out suicide bombings at Brussels airport and on the metro on Tuesday, the federal prosecutor confirmed on Wednesday, adding that airport bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui had left a will on a computer that was found. His brother Khalid blew himself up on a carriage...

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Muslims were failing to report suspicious activity and they must do more to help prevent attacks such as those that killed at least 30 people in Belgium. "When they see trouble they have to report it, they are not reporting...

Russian state transport agency Rostransnadzor has started checks on budget airlines, TASS news agency reported on Wednesday. Russian investigators are currently examining the flight recorders from a plane operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, which crashed in southern...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A humanitarian aid convoy have entered the embattled region of al Houla in central province of Homs on Tuesday, local reporter said as tens of Houla villages still under severe siege for over four years. 27 vehicles loaded with food and medical aid have reached the embattled...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels backed by Nusra Front on Tuesday have recaptured two towns form ISIS-linked groups in the southern province of Daraa as clashes still underway in the western countryside, field sources said. Free Syrian Army took the towns of Mzairib and al-Sheikh Saad from...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Anas al-Abdah, head of the Syrian National Coalition, has confirmed the Coalitions’ position from announcing the federal system in northern Syria by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) saying that SNC is with the administrative decentralization but...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 Belgian jihadists joined Islamic State between 2013 and 2014, most of them were Arabs, the group’s leaked personal data that obtained by Zaman al-Wasl last December has showed. The jihadi files of Belgians have become a key demand by security services and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army units launched Tuesday a counter attack on regime forces in the northeastern countryside of Hama province, killing at least ten soldiers, local activist said. Hashem al-Rimi, Hama-based activist, told Zaman al-Wasl that the moderate FSA troops attacked regime's...

A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko to 22 years behind bars after she was found guilty of involvement in the killing of two journalists in eastern Ukraine. The court found Savchenko "guilty on all counts" and sentenced her to 22 years in...