By Ali Eid; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- It has been five years since the eruption of the Syrian revolution, calling for dignity and democracy, challenging the rule of Bashar al-Assad in Syria. After years of ongoing bloodshed and failing to resolve the conflict, counting deaths...

Airstrikes by 11 Turkish warplanes in northern Iraq Monday are believed to have killed 45 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants, the armed forces said in a statement Tuesday. The military said the strikes by F-16 and F-4 jets, in the Qandil mountain area where the PKK has its main bases, also...

Turkish authorities declared a curfew in a neighborhood of southeast Turkey's largest city Diyarbakir on Tuesday to fight Kurdish militants in the area, local officials announced as clashes broke out in the area. The curfew was imposed in the Kaynartepe neighborhood of...

Senior Islamic State operative Abu Omar al-Shishani, who was wounded in a U.S. air strike last week in Syria, has died, CNN reported on Monday, citing two unnamed U.S. officials. Shishani, also known as Omar the Chechen and described by the Pentagon as the group's "minister of war," was...

President Vladimir Putin announced out of the blue on Monday that "the main part" of Russian armed forces in Syria will start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as U.N.-mediated talks resumed on ending the five-year-old war. Syria rejected any...

( Writing by Ethar Abdul Haq) (Zaman Al Wasl – Special)- Leaked ISIS personal data obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showed that at least 10 jihadists used fake passports or relatives’ papers to cross their borders heading the de facto Caliphate State in Syria and Iraq....

 Syria's regime has submitted an document entitled "Basic Elements for a Political Solution" to the U.N. mediator at peace talks in Geneva, the head of Syria's delegation, Bashar Jaafari, told reporters Monday after the opening session of the talks. Jaafari said he had had a positive and...

Aid groups were unable to deliver much-needed food packages to four besieged towns in war-torn Syria on Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross told AFP, citing security problems. Since an unprecedented ceasefire came into force on February 27, aid deliveries have reached...

Syria's five-year-old conflict has created 2.4 million child refugees, killed many and led to the recruitment of children as fighters, some as young as seven, U.N. children's fund UNICEF said on Monday. Its report "No Place for Children" said more than 8 million children in Syria...

Turkish warplanes bombed camps belonging to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq early on Monday, Turkey's army said, following a car bomb attack in Ankara that killed at least 37 people. Eleven warplanes carried out the strikes on eighteen recently...

A United Arab Emirates fighter plane taking part in Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen is missing, the UAE armed forces said in a statement on state news agency WAM on Monday without giving further details. The armed forces said in a short statement that the jet taking part in the...

Russia is ready to coordinate its actions with the U.S.-led coalition in Syria to push the Islamic State group out of Raqqa, Interfax news agency quoted Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying. "We are ready to coordinate our actions with the Americans, because Raqqa...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five Free Syrian Army units operating in northern Aleppo province have merged in one armed group to unified militay efforts on the ground, said in statement posted online  Saturday. Commanders of Division 99  said: “based on our...

The United States and France warned the Syrian regime on Sunday against trying to disrupt the fragile ceasefire as the warring sides prepared for fresh peace talks to end the brutal conflict. With the five-year anniversary of the violence looming, the main players in the...

A car bomb tore through a crowded transport hub in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Sunday, killing at least 34 people and wounding at least 125 more, the second such attack in the administrative heart of the city in less than a month. The blast, which could be heard several...

Syria peace talks due to begin in Geneva this week look set to struggle with the sides showing no sign of compromise over the issue at the heart of the five-year-long conflict: the future of President Bashar al-Assad. The U.N.-led talks getting underway on Monday with U.S. and...

Reporting by Fouad Abdulaziz; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad- Zaman Al Wasl)- “Arab Street” in the centre of Berlin, Germany, is situated in one of the poorest areas of the city called Sonnenallee. Once you enter the street, you feel like you have traveled tens of thousands of kilometre...

ISIS Sunday pulled its fighters out of Al-Rutbah, a desert town in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, an army general and the mayor said. "Daesh (ISIS) has completely pulled out of [Al-Rutbah] and gone towards Al-Qaim," a major general told AFP, referring to a extremist bastion on the...

The signal to attack came from the mosque, sending dozens of Islamist fighters storming through the Tunisian town of Ben Guerdan to hit army and police posts in street battles that lit the dawn sky with tracer bullets. Militants used a megaphone to chant "God is Great," and reassure residents...

The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front seized bases and weapons from a Western-backed rebel group in overnight fighting in northwestern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. Rami Abdulrahman, director of the Observatory, said the Nusra Front had also detained...