(Zaman Al Wasl)- A rebel group operating in central Homs province said late on Wednesday it had blown up a regime patrol on the main highway that links the capital with Aleppo, killing all members. The movement of Tahrir Homs, or the Liberation of Homs, vowed to carry out more attacks in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Des sources privées ont révélé pour «Zaman Al Wasl» pour un certain nombre de soupçons sérieux que la cimenterie Lafarge en Syrie  est endommagée, à l'avant-garde de la société face à l 'organisation « Etat islamique » et  les offres de contrat pour acheter du...

An Iraqi army helicopter crashed on Wednesday due to "hostile fire" west of Baghdad where security forces were fighting Islamic State militants, who claimed responsibility for downing it. The helicopter crashed in the Fuhailat area, a frontline 15 km (10 miles) southeast of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 27 people, including women and children, have been killed on Wednesday due to the U.S.-led air strikes on ISIS-held areas in the northeastern province of Hasakah, activists said. The strikes on the villages of al-Hazeem, al-Ammo and Tahmaz south of Hasakah city have...

Four in ten German economists believe the record number of migrants coming to the country are a drag on the economy, while only 23 percent view them as beneficial, a poll to be published on Thursday showed. The other 37 percent were undecided, according to the poll of 220...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebels have killed 15 fighters loyal to Bashar al-Assad late on Tuesday in a surprise attack targeted their checkpoints east of central Hama city, rebel sources said. Rebels of the northern countryside of Homs attacked checkpoints of the paramilitary National Defense Forces in...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Ten civilians killed in the U.S.-led air strikes on the western countryside of Hasakah, local activists said Wednesday . The strikes have targeted a vehicle carrying civilians were heading a funeral in the village of Jayer west of Hasakah city. In the southern...

British Typhoon fighter jets were sent to intercept two Russian bombers heading towards British airspace Wednesday, a spokeswoman from the Ministry of Defense said. Intercepts of Russian aircraft by NATO have increased over the last year amid heightened tensions between the West and Moscow...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army and Russian warplanes have renewed aerial and ground attacks on the Turkmen-dominated village of Harbanfaseh town in Hama province, residents said on Wednesday. Russia's warplanes have carried out at least 600 air strikes on Turkmen villages in the...

At least 28 people were killed and 61 wounded in a car bomb targeting the Turkish military in the capital Ankara on Wednesday, the city's governor said. The attack was aimed at a convoy of military service vehicles, Ankara governor Mehmet Kiliclar said, quoted by the CNN-Turk and NTV channels....

Turkey does not intend to stop shelling Syrian Kurdish YPG militia in response to cross-border fire, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, adding the United States should decide whether to back Turkey or the Kurdish insurgents. The rapid of advance of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters,...

The Russian foreign ministry said Russian and U.S. military officials will take part in the first meeting on Friday of a working group to discuss implementation of a ceasefire in Syria, Russia's Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday. Russian Deputy Foreign Ministry Gennady Gatilov added...

Turkey wants a secure strip of territory 10 km (6.2 miles) deep on the Syrian side of its border, including the town of Azaz, to prevent attempts to "change the demographic structure" of the area, Deputy Prime Minister Yalcin Akdogan said Wednesday. Syrian government forces backed by Russian...

The Syrian UN envoy said Tuesday that terrorist organization PKK's Syrian affiliate, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), enjoys the support of not only the U.S. but also the Assad regime. "These Syrian Kurds supported by the American administration are also supported by the Syrian government,...

Four people have been killed and two others left in critical condition after a roadside bomb exploded in the Philippines’ troubled Muslim south, according to the military Wednesday. Lt. Colonel Warlito Limet, 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion commander, said in a report that the victims had...

A Saudi Arabia-led coalition and Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen are both restricting humanitarian aid access in the impoverished country where more than 80 percent of people need help, United Nations aid chief Stephen O'Brien said on Tuesday. The Saudi coalition began a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes renewed between Syria's rebels and a U.S.-backed alliance of Kurds and Arabs in northern Aleppo province as Russia extends its aerial bombing after bloody day left 50 people dead. Rebels of al-Hulk neighborhood on Tuesday have taken captive 6 fighters operating in...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) representative Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa said there have been about 400 attacks on hospitals that killed some 700 health care workers during the crisis in Syria, according to a doctors Without Borders (MSF) representative. Targeting these hospitals in Syria is a clear...

The Syrian government used toxic gas eight times over a five-month period in different areas of Syria, a group that monitors the conflict said Tuesday. The London-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said gas had been used between Aug. 1 and Dec. 31 last year, mostly in Idlib, the...

Turkey called on Tuesday for Russia’s airstrikes on civilians and hospitals in Syria to be debated at the UN Security Council. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus also called on Russia and the U.S. - both permanent members of the council - to show their support for peace by enforced a no-fly...