Four people have been killed after a suicide bombing in central Istanbul, city governor said. CNN-Turk said 20 people have also been wounded in the blast in Istiklal Street, a wide street lined with shops, cafes, restaurants and foreign consulates. NTV television said the explosion happened...

Al Qaeda's North Africa branch has claimed responsibility for Friday's rocket-propelled grenade attack on an Algerian gas plant operated by Norway's Statoil and BP as part of its "war on the Crusader interests everywhere". The attack caused no casualties or damage but forced the...

The Investigative Committee of Russia said on Saturday that it is looking into a pilot error or a technical failure as the most likely causes for the plane crash that killed 62 in southern Russia, Russian news agencies reported. "At present, we are looking into two main...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 people, including 5 women and 7children, were killed on Friday in Russian air strikes targeted the ISIS-held city of Raqqa northeastern Syria, the group's news agency and activists said. The Russian strikes on the Islamic group's de facto capital have stormed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl has obtained the leaked ISIS personal data of Mohamed Belkaid, an ISIS affiliate and newly Paris Attacks suspect, who was killed last Tuesday during a counterterrorism raid in Belgium. The Algerian candy maker, 35,  who was based in Sweden, had entered...

The most-wanted fugitive from November's Paris attacks was arrested after a shootout with police in Brussels on Friday, the Belgian federal prosecutor's office said. Media reported Salah Abdeslam, the 26-year-old French suspect, was wounded in the operation as EU leaders met on...

Syria's regime must do more to present its ideas about a political transition and not merely talk about principles of peacemaking, U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Friday after a fifth day of peace talks. The end of a week of talks in Geneva came as Syria neared the...

Russia has withdrawn most of its strike aircraft from Syria, the U.S. military said on Friday, adding that it was now entirely carrying out strikes in support of Syrian government forces using artillery instead of aircraft. "They still have helicopters and some transport aircraft. But what...

Syrian rebel factions on Friday condemned a declaration of federalism in Kurdish-controlled regions of northern Syria and vowed to resist it by force, a day after those areas voted to seek autonomy. A statement from a number of Syrian insurgent groups, some of whom are...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rallies commemorating the fifth anniversary of Syrian revolution have renewed on Friday across Syria, taking advantage of three weeks of 'cessation of hostilities' ceasefire deal despite the paralyzed peace talks in Geneva. In all rallies, people have assured their...

Millions of Syrian refugees just want to return home and will do so if peace talks in Geneva are successful and the fighting ends, a spokesman for the main opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said on Friday. More than 4.8 million Syrians are refugees in countries...

The EU's foreign policy chief has warned the bloc's foreign ministers that nearly half a million people displaced in Libya could migrate to Europe, saying that Brussels is also studying a civilian security mission to Libya. "There are more than 450,000 internally displaced persons...

Reporting by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bambino centre for emotionally rehabilitate children in Western Ghouta of Damascus, supports and works to bring happiness to children, despite lack of support and fund in addition to high cost of almost everything....

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Europe needed to look at its own record on migrants before telling Turkey what to do, and said Turkey would only listen to Europe's criticism on rights when it is correct. In a speech broadcast live on television, Erdogan also said Europe was...

The Ministry of Interior has blacklisted nearly a dozen Lebanese journalists for suspected links to Hezbollah. Five Lebanese journalists in Kuwait will not have their residencies renewed and two others were given one month to leave the country, Al Rai Arabic newspaper reported yesterday. Other...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia could scale up its military presence in Syria again within hours and would still bomb terrorist groups there despite a partial draw-down of forces ordered after military successes. Speaking in one of the Kremlin's grandest...

Iran will likely escape new United Nations sanctions, though the U.N. Security Council could issue a public reprimand for recent launches of what Western officials described as ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, diplomats said. Council diplomats said the...

The U.N. envoy for Syria says significant gaps remain between the sides taking part in the Syrian peace talks in Geneva. Staffan de Mistura emerged Thursday from the fourth day of talks to tell reporters that "the distance between the two sides is large." De Mistura is shuttling...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many families in Eastern countryside of Hasaka have started relying on the seasonal grasses and plants as an essential source of food as a result of the increase prices of the foods and other products which are not affordable for many of them. A...

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