A Turkish police officer was killed and two wounded when suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants fired a rocket at their armored vehicle in the town of Nusaybin near the southeastern border with Syria, security sources said on Sunday. Turkey's predominantly Kurdish...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The intelligence and criminal archive of 4.2 million warrants which Zaman Al Wasl obtains, shows 12 Syrian residents have forst name as “Hafez al-Assad” and 7 others carried first name of “Bassel al-Assad”, Hafez’s eldest son, added to them the...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani won an emphatic vote of confidence and reformist partners secured surprise gains in parliament in early results from elections that could accelerate the Islamic Republic's emergence from years of isolation. While gains by moderates and reformists in Friday's...

Syria's fragile ceasefire entered its second day Sunday, with battle-zones across the war-scarred country largely quiet for the first time in five years despite some sporadic breaches. The temporary truce, brokered by Washington and Moscow, is seen as a crucial step towards ending a conflict...

Guns mostly fell silent in Syria and Russian air raids stopped on Saturday, the first day of a cessation of hostilities that the United Nations has described as the best hope for peace in five years of civil war. Under the U.S.-Russian accord accepted by President Bashar...

(Zaman Al Wals)- Islamic State beheaded a top tribesman in Tel Abyad town near the Turkish border, saying he was collaborating with the Kurdish YPG militia, pro-ISIS accounts reported on Saturday. Khaled Dahham Ragheb al-Bashir, cousin of Nawaf al-Bashir, head of the powerful al-Baqara tribe,...

Air strikes by an Arab coalition fighting Iranian-allied Houthi forces in Yemen hit a market northeast of the capital Sanaa on Saturday, killing 40 people, residents said. The strikes at Nehm district in Sanaa province also wounded 30, they said, adding that most of the casualties...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Damascus)- Qaboun, the northern suburb of Damascus, is still under severe siege despite cease-fire agreement reached two years ago in February 2014, nothing has been changed, residents and activists say. The 'cessation of hostilities' that come into effect at the...

Switzerland said on Saturday it had agreed on a "road map" for building business, financial and other links with Iran after Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann met his counterpart Hassan Rouhani in Tehran. "The aim is to relaunch various dialogues between Switzerland and Iran,"...

(Zaman Al Wals)- Islamic State fighters attacked the town of Tel Abyad controlled by the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia at the Turkish border as well as the nearby town of Suluk on Saturday, YPG spokesman Redur Xelil and Turkish security sources told Reuters. The YPG and Syrian...

Syrian rebels in the country's northwest said they came under attack from government ground forces at 4 a.m. (0200 GMT) on Saturday in they called a breach of the cessation of hostilities plan that came into effect at midnight. Three fighters from the rebel Second Coastal Division were killed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least six fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad killed on Saturday in an ISIS suicide attack targeted their checkpoint in central Hama province, regime-run agency said. The suicide bomber has detonated his car near al-Batata checkpoint iى the Ismaili-dominated city of...

Greece has cut back on bringing migrants and refugees from the Aegean islands to the mainland after neighboring Balkan countries closed their borders. Police authorities from Slovenia, Austria, Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia said they have agreed to limit the flow of migrants to around 580...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Agencies)- A cessation of hostilities in Syria came into effect at the agreed time of midnight on Saturday (2200 GMT Friday), under a U.S.-Russian plan whichwarring sides in the five-year conflict have said would to commit to. Syria's regime and rebels warring against it have...

U.S. special forces advisors are within miles of rebels who they are helping to capture the strategic Syrian town of al-Shadadi from Islamic State but are away from the front lines, a U.S. military spokesman said on Friday. The United States sent dozens of special operations...

Russia has committed not to launch strikes against Syrian groups the United States considers to be part of the moderate opposition, the U.S. State Department said on Friday, hours before a cessation of hostilities in Syria was due to start. It is "put-up or shut-up time" for...

Seven soldiers were killed on Friday in clashes with Islamist militants in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, where military forces are pressing to consolidate recent gains, an army commander said. Military forces allied to Libya's eastern government have long been battling Islamists and...

Syria's branch of al Qaeda, one of its most powerful Islamist rebel groups, called for an escalation in fighting against the government and its allies, adding to the dangers facing an agreement to halt fighting set to start on Saturday. The government and rebel groups have agreed...

Swiss soccer executive Gianni Infantino vowed on Friday to lead FIFA, the sport's world governing body, out of years of corruption and scandal after being elected president to succeed Sepp Blatter. "We will restore the image of FIFA and the respect of FIFA, and everyone in the...

Four fighter jets belonging to the Saudi military arrived Friday in Turkey's Incirlik Air Base in southern Adana province, according to Anadolu Agency reporters on the ground. Undersecretary of the Saudi Defense Ministry, Ahmad al-Asiri has confirmed the landing. The deployment is...