U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry raised the possibility on Saturday of getting a ceasefire in Yemen similar to the arrangement that has been implemented in Syria, the State Department said. Speaking in Hafr al-Batin in Saudi Arabia, at a meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister...

The Islamic State is using several forms of contraception to maintain its supply of sex slaves, the New York Times reported on Saturday, citing interviews with more than three dozen Yazidi women who escaped from the militant group. The New York Times reported that Islamic State...

The Syria-based terrorist organization PYD should never be considered as a reliable partner for defeating Daesh, Turkish foreign minister said at the fifth meeting of the “Turkish-British Tatlidil Forum” in London Saturday. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu differed from the views of...

Rebels shoot down regime warplane in Hama province: state TV

Syria's main opposition group said it would attend peace talks on Monday but accused the government of President Bashar al-Assad of preparing to escalate the war to strengthen its negotiating position. The U.N.-brokered talks, which coincide with the fifth anniversary of the...

Two leaders from the Syrian opposition delegation arrived in Geneva on Saturday ahead of peace talks due to resume next week, AFP correspondents reported. Mohammed Alloush, a leading member of Islamist rebel group the Army of Islam and nominally chief negotiator for the umbrella opposition...

 Bashar al-Assad's ouster remains a "red line" for the regime, the country's top diplomat said Saturday ahead of fragile peace talks in Geneva. "We will not talk with anyone who wants to discuss the presidency.... Bashar al-Assad is a red line and is the property of the Syrian...

Syrian rebels on Saturday have shot down a regime warplane in the northern countryside of Hama province, although there were conflicting accounts on whether it had been brought down by a missile or anti-aircraft guns, state-run TV and group monitoring the conflict said. The Syrian Observatory...

Turkey has accepted at least 90 migrants who were in neighboring Greece as part of a recent agreement between the two countries. The migrants from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Pakistan – and accompanied by Greek police – were taken to the Ipsala border checkpoint in northwestern Turkey on...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- At least 35 French jihadists joined Islamic State between 2013 and 2014, 14 of them were Arabs, Turks, Afghan and Senegalese, according to the leaked ISIS data base that obtained by Zaman al-Wasl last December and published on January 20. The...

As peace talks are set to get under way in Geneva next week, residents in Syria from nurses to street vendors voice little optimism over the United Nations-backed negotiations’ chance of success. The Geneva talks will coincide with the fifth anniversary of a conflict that began...

 Arab League designates Hezbollah a terrorist organization: agencies

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Thousands of Syrians across rebel-held areas went to streets for the second week on Friday celebrating the revolution's fifth anniversary as a U.N.-sponsored ceasefire deal enters third week. The demonstrations in Aleppo, Idlib, Homs and Daraa have called back the memorable...

The convoy of the leader of one of Iraq's main Shi'ite militias, Aws al-Khafaji, came under attack and two of his guards were wounded, Baghdad-based Afaq TV reported on Friday. An explosive device blew up as his convoy was passing in the region of Arab Jubour, just south of...

The influential speaker of Lebanon's parliament signaled on Friday that a deal to elect a president was almost ready, raising hopes that a presidential vacuum which has paralyzed the political system for nearly two years could soon be filled. Lebanese newspaper An-nahar cited...

The first delivery of Russia's S-300 missile defense system to Iran will take place in August or September this year, RIA news agency on Friday quoted Sergei Chemezov, the head of Russia's industrial conglomerate Rostec, as saying. RIA quoted an unnamed source earlier as saying...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria will hold a presidential election in 18 months, Russia's RIA news agency on Friday quoted the United Nations peace mediator on Syria Staffan de Mistura as saying. The starting point for the election will be the latest round of Syria peace talks which are...

(Al Jazeera)- Dozens of residents in a besieged town outside the Syrian capital have staged a demonstration urging the United Nations to allow humanitarian aid into the area. The protesters, mostly women and children, took to the streets on Wednesday in rebel-held Darayya, which has been...

Syria's opposition said on Friday it would attend peace talks that were set for March 14, but downplayed the chances of reaching agreement with the Syrian government. A statement from the High Negotiations Committee said it would focus on the establishment of an interim...

Major powers close to U.N.-brokered peace talks on Syria are discussing the possibility of a federal division of the war-torn country that would maintain its unity as a single state while granting broad autonomy to regional authorities, diplomats said. The resumption of Geneva...