(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists have accused SDF, a Kurdish-led alliance backed by the U.S., of looting the public and private properties in areas it controlled in the northern province of Aleppo. Jaish al-Thuwar, key unit in the Syrian Democratic Forces, which now in full control of vast...

A gunman killed a senior Yemeni army officer in Aden Monday, as violence in the southern port city which is the headquarters of the Saudi-backed government showed no let-up, military sources said. The gunman, who was on the back of a motorcycle, killed General Abedrabbo Hussein as he was...

Syria's main opposition umbrella group was meeting in the Saudi capital Monday as Washington and Moscow worked to secure a ceasefire. "There is a meeting," Monzer Makhous, a spokesman for the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), told AFP in Riyadh. The meeting is expected to continue for two or...

A military ground operation in Syria by Turkey and Saudi Arabia is not on the agenda and any such move would need to involve all countries in the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Monday. Russian airstrikes were the biggest obstacle to achieving a...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- 'Hekayat Hassan', or Hassan's Story, a documentary aired Saturday by the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news channel, has sparked outrage in the kingdom and abroad since the 'biography' has glorified Lebanese Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah. Activists...

Military forces loyal to Libya's eastern government said on Sunday they had pushed back Islamist fighters in several areas of Benghazi, seizing the strategic port of Marisa. The Libyan National Army said it had also taken control of the town of Ajdabiya, about 150 km (90 miles)...

Three journalists working for Anadolu Agency, kidnapped by PKK terrorists for over 48 hours in Turkey's southeastern Mardin province, have been freed. Anadolu Agency correspondent Rauf Maltas (31), photojournalist Onur Coban (36) and cameraman Kenan Yesilyurt (26) were assigned last week to...

“We believe in our army, and in our state.” Amid sounds of artillery invading the atmosphere of the city of Kilis, just a few miles from the Syrian border, Halil Deli, 36, taxi driver for five years now, support the Turkish army’s shelling in Syria. But he quickly shows concern not only for...

Separate bomb attacks claimed by the Islamic State group in Syria on Sunday killed at least 129 people as Washington pursued efforts for a ceasefire. As US Secretary of State John Kerry said a provisional deal had been reached on the terms of a truce, violence intensified...

Clashes between Iraqi tribesmen and the ISIS group in Fallujah have halted after the extremists detained dozens of residents of the city west of Baghdad, officials said Sunday. The fighting between the Sunni Arab tribesmen and ISIS in Fallujah, one of two cities it still holds in Iraq,...

At least 50 ISIS group fighters have been killed in the last 24 hours in an advance by Syrian government forces east of Aleppo city, an activist said Sunday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighters were killed in clashes as well as strikes by Russian forces that...

PKK terrorists who abducted three journalists working for Anadolu Agency in Turkey's southeastern Mardin province have held the trio for over 48 hours. The journalists are being held at an unknown location; their cameras were also seized. Anadolu Agency correspondent Rauf Maltas (31),...

Twenty-one people detained over the terror attack that hit the Turkish capital on Feb. 17 were sent to Ankara courthouse earlier on Sunday, according to judicial sources. The detainees were held across Turkey having connection with Wednesday’s bomb attack in Ankara. A convoy of military-owned...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed ( Eqtsad - Zamana Al Wasl)- Sarah, the Syrian refugee woman in Egypt who was waiting to follow her a asylum-seeker husband to Sweden, has never expected to be dumped and divorced as the husband changed migration plans and decided to start a new life in Germany....

Australia’s immigration minister confirmed Sunday that an asylum seeker baby who doctors have refused to discharge from a hospital in Queensland state will be placed in community detention rather than immediately deported to an offshore detention center in Nauru. The announcement comes...

At least 46 people were killed in twin car bomb blasts that hit Syria's Homs on Sunday in one of the deadliest such attacks in the city in five years of civil war, a monitoring group said, and state media confirmed the explosions. At least 100 others were wounded by the...

 (BuzzFeed News)- Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of the U.S. government told BuzzFeed News that they recently began fighting rival rebels supported by another arm of the U.S. government. The infighting between American proxies is the latest...

Syria's opposition on Saturday said it had agreed to the "possibility" of a temporary truce, provided there were guarantees Damascus's allies including Russia would cease fire, sieges were lifted and aid deliveries were allowed country-wide. But there was no immediate sign that...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine ISIS wounded fighters moved on Saturday from southern Damascus suburbs to Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the hardline group , in coordination with the Syrian regime, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. One of the ISIS wounded who moved from al-Hajer al-Aswad suburb to...

Turkey's presidency said U.S. President Barack Obama had shared his concerns over the Syrian conflict and promised his support on Friday, hours after a tense exchange between the two NATO allies over the role of Kurdish militants. In a phone conversation that lasted one hour...