Kuwait has expelled 11 Lebanese and three Iraqis suspected of belonging to Hezbollah, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported on Monday, nearly three weeks after the country joined other Gulf Arab states in designating the Lebanese Shi'ite group a terrorist organization. Al-Qabas cited a...

More than 600 people have now left France for Syria and Iraq, with about 800 more wanting to leave to join Islamic State (IS), Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday. The figures show little respite in the number of people joining the jihadist group despite multiple bombing...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The majority of loyalists for the Syrian regime are still living in a state of denial toward the fact of the Russian withdrawal from Syria, because they had opened their arms wide to the Russian warplanes and forces, hoping they would strengthen the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al Wasl has obtained the ISIS personal data of Abu Mustafa Ozturk, relative of Mehmet Ozturk, the suicide bomber of Istanbul's Istiklal street that left three Israelis and an Iranian dead on Saturday. On Sunday, Turkish Interior Minister Efkan Ala has said...

Syrian government negotiators at Geneva peace talks are coming under unaccustomed pressure to discuss something far outside their comfort zone: the fate of President Bashar al-Assad. And they are doing their best to avoid it. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura describes Syria's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters launched a surprise attack on regime checkpoints in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, targeting the government-held neighborhoods, local activists said. The attack started early on Sunday were both sides had exchanged mortar and artillery shelling in the...

Police were on high alert across Turkey on Sunday after the previous day's attack by a suicide bomber in Istanbul's most popular shopping district, killing three Israelis and an Iranian, with dozens more people wounded in the blast. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu told...

The lawyer defending the prime surviving suspect for the Nov. 13 Paris attacks said on Sunday he would sue a French prosecutor for divulging Salah Abdeslam's private admission that he planned to blow himself up with fellow Islamic State militants. Speaking two days after Abdeslam...

Pope Francis, leading the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics in Palm Sunday services leading up to Easter, on Sunday criticized those who he said were washing their hands of the fate of desperate refugees. Francis blessed palm and olive branches in St. Peter's Square before tens...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Patients of a charitable hospital in al Waer neighborhood of Homs city are facing slow death as regime froces prevent the entry of medic, fuel and cutting off power supply, activists said. Hassan al Asmar, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl that regime forces have banned...

The ceasefire in Syria is broadly holding but the United States should be doing more to support it, Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. The ministry said Russian monitors had registered no violations of the ceasefire involving the use of heavy weapons within...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Houla region in the northwest countryside of Homs province was one of the first towns which came out in peaceful demonstration and they were the biggest gatherings. Zaman Al Wasl tried on the 5th anniversary of the Syrian revolution to examine...

More than 900 migrants were rescued in four separate operations in the Strait of Sicily on Saturday and emergency services recovered one corpse, Italy's coast guard said. Now into the second year of its worst migration crisis since World War Two, Europe has seen more than 1.2...

  At least 13 Egyptian policemen were killed in the Sinai Peninsula when Islamist militants fired a mortar round at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said on Saturday. Islamic State claimed responsibility on several websites for the...

 Captured Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam told interrogators that he "wanted to blow himself up" at the Stade de France stadium but changed his mind, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said Saturday. "These first statements, which should be taken cautiously, leave a whole series of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Free Syrian Army fighters took three villages from the Islamic State in northern Aleppo province near the Turkish border, local reporter said on Saturday. The moderate rebels have seized control of al-Jakka, al-Kamaliya and Mrigel in the last 48 hours. Meanwhile, the rallies...

  Dozens of people were killed in a series of air strikes on the city of Raqqa in northern Syria on Saturday, a monitoring group and activists said, as Damascus and Moscow waged attacks on areas controlled by Islamic State. A cessation of hostilities in Syria took effect three...

39 civilians killed in raids on Syria's Raqqa: activist (AFP)

 The Algerian gunman newly linked to the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris after being killed by police joined ISIS in 2014 and said he wanted to die as a suicide bomber, bypassing the choice to be a fighter. Previously unknown to authorities, Mohamed Belkaid was shot to death Tuesday in a raid...

Three Israelis and one Iranian were killed in Saturday's suicide bombing in a busy shopping district of Istanbul, Turkish media reported. The victims were named as Israelis Simha Siman Demri, 60, Yonathan Suher, 40, Avraham Goldman, 70, and Iranian national Ali Rıza Khalman, 31, the...