Turkey and Germany signed Tuesday joint declarations of intent on bilateral cooperation regarding the fight against migrant smuggling and against terror. The deputy undersecretary of the Turkish Interior Ministry Mehmet Tekinarslan and the German ambassador in Turkey Martin Erdmann signed the...

The government of  Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups accepted a plan for a cessation of hostilities to begin on Saturday and the United States warned it would be hard to hold the country together if the fighting did not stop. With hostilities reported on several fronts,...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Confidential  documents issued by the Syrian political intelligence before the Syrian Uprising in 2011 showed nominal lists of Syrian Kurds who joined the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in its armed conflict with Turkey. The...

Islamic State fighters have tightened their grip on a Syrian regime supply route to Aleppo on Tuesday as the army battled to retake the road as part of its campaign to seize the city, Reuters reported. The Islamic State assault has targeted a desert road which the...

 Forces loyal to Libya's internationally recognised government seized a key central neighbourhood of second city Benghazi from Islamist militias on Tuesday, the military said. The advance came as Libya's parliament again failed to vote on a UN-backed unity government...

Turkey insisted on Tuesday there was an indisputable link between Syrian Kurdish fighters and last week's deadly attack in Ankara, despite final confirmation that the bomber was born on Turkish territory. After the February 18 suicide car bombing of a convoy of military...

By Graham E. Fuller (Lobelog)- What does Turkey need to do to overcome its present foreign policy fiasco, one of the worst in modern Turkish history? The irony of all this is that those directly responsible for this mess—the team of Recep Tayip Erdogan (now president) and Ahmet Davutoglu,...

The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday that it was banning its citizens from traveling to Lebanon and reducing its diplomatic mission there, according to state news agency WAM. "The Foreign and International Cooperation Ministry announced that it had raised its warning...

The Syrian regime said on Tuesday it accepted a halt to "combat operations" that does not include the Islamic State group, the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, or groups connected to it, in line with a U.S.-Russian plan. It said it would coordinate with Russia to decide which groups and areas...

 Syrian regime says accepts halt to combat operations on basis that military efforts continue against ISIS, Nusra: statement

The United States and Russia announced plans for a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria that would take effect on Saturday but exclude groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda's Nusra Front, a loophole Syrian rebels immediately highlighted as a problem. Monday's agreement,...

The civil war in Syria has seen scores of refugees crossing the sea to reach Europe- where they are not always welcome. One family fled the Syrian capital Damascus over a year ago and in search of a new home, they made the trek down south, to South Africa. Yaser and Safaa Jabri Al Rehawi have...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Recent Syrian regime’s military campaign and Russian airstrikes on the countryside of Hama have increase the burden on the civil defense forces, which already suffer of shortage of manpower and equipment. Zaman Al Wasl has observed the suffering of...

By Editor in-chief Fathi Ibrahim Bayoud (Zaman Al Wasl)- As Zaman Al Wasl enters its second decade, more hopes and plans are yet to be made and achieved in the electronic journalism . Some of our main objectives are developing the investigative reporting, launching Zaman's online TV and...

Islamic State attacked the Syrian government's main supply route from Damascus to the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, a day after the group targeted Damascus and Homs in some of the bloodiest car bomb attacks of the war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said fighting and air...

 ISIS Monday released the last of some 230 Assyrian Christians kidnapped a year ago in Syria after the receiving millions of dollars in ransom, Christian officials said. Younan Talia, of the Assyrian Democratic Organization, told The Associated Press that about 40 remaining Christian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of kafr Batna suburb in the Eastern Ghouta district  have refused on Monday to receive any humanitarian aid unless being delivered to all embattled suburbs near Damascus, local reporter said. The town's local council said the (Assad) regime is planning to sow...

Syria opposition coordinator Hijab says there is provisional agreement on temporary truce: Orient TV

A draft U.S.-Russian plan calls for a cessation of hostilities in Syria to begin on Feb. 27 but to exclude ISIS and Al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front militants, two Western diplomatic sources said Monday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed a report by the Al-Jazeera...

Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip have warned of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Palestinian territory, which has been reeling under a 10-year Israeli blockade. In a Monday statement, the factions said that the economic and humanitarian situation in the seaside enclave has reached an...