Saudi Arabia participated in air strikes as part of a U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State militants over the weekend, a U.S. Department of Defense spokesman said on Tuesday. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter, who has been under pressure to shore up support from Sunni Arab...

A local U.N. staffer in Iraq was killed after he was abducted from the eastern province of Diyala last April, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Amer al-Kaissy, the Diyala representative for the U.N. mission, was found dead in November near the city of Baquba with a gunshot wound suggesting...

Top oil exporters Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed on Tuesday to freeze output levels but said the deal was contingent on other producers joining in - a major sticking point with Iran absent from the talks and determined to raise production. The Saudi, Russian, Qatari and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 28 people have killed and dozens wounded in Russian airstrikes on an ISIS-held town in the northeastern province of Hasakah as regime army and Kurdish militants launch joint attack on the strategic town. The deadly Russian air strikes have targeted the main bakery of...

The U.N. Syria envoy met Syria's foreign minister on Monday and discussed a cessation of hostilities, a resumption of peace talks this month, and the need for "unhindered" delivery of humanitarian aid to areas besieged by all parties, a U.N. spokesman said. Staffan de Mistura...

Turkish artillery has returned fire "in kind" into Syria, military sources said on Tuesday, marking the fourth straight day of shelling by the Turkish military. Turkey on Monday warned Kurdish militia fighters in northern Syria they would face the "harshest reaction" if they tried to capture a...

Zaman Al Wasl is to publish consecutively 6400 warrants issued for the Syrian army officers and defectors by security services. Months ago, Zaman al-Wasl obtained about 1,700,000 documents and warrants issued by the Syrian intelligence till the end of 2014, including 524,416 arrest orders...

China's Foreign Ministry warned the United States on Tuesday there would be "serious consequences" if a plaza in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington was named after a pro-democracy dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner. By unanimous voice vote, the U.S. Senate on Friday...

Belgian police raided homes in Brussels on Tuesday and detained 10 people on suspicion of operating a recruitment ring for militant group Islamic State. "Our investigation points to several persons having left for Syria to join Islamic State," Belgium's federal prosecutors said in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine rebel groups operating in northern Aleppo province pledged allegiance to Hashim Al-Sheikh, the former leader of Ahrar al-Sham movement on Monday as rebels face the risk of collapse and losing their strongholds to favor of regime forces and U.S.-backed Kurdish forces....

The Kurdish-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) took control of the town of Tal Rifaat on Monday, seizing territory close to the Turkish border and pushing east towards Islamic State-held territory, conflict monitors said. The move means the SDF - which include the Kurdish YPG...

The German government expects 500,000 refugees to come to Germany this year, German newspaper Rheinische Post cited sources from the Federal Labor Office as saying. German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Frank-Juergen Weise, head of both the Federal Office for...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Maha Jasim Halawik, a-4-year-old girl from Zara town in countryside of Homs, suffers from a state of mute-deaf and dislocation in her left hip during rescuing her from under the rubbles of her house. Mohammed Kassab detailed that the girl was...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)-  Regime forces in the city of Deir Ezzor have started moving some families of police forces and officers on planes to Damascus and the coastal region while it prevented other people from leaving areas under its control. An activist explained...

Bulgarian prosecutors have charged three Syrians with attempting to join Islamic State militant group after border patrols arrested them as they tried to enter Turkey from Bulgaria, the interior ministry said on Monday. The three Syrians, who had refugee status from Germany, had...

 Turkish forces shelled Kurdish fighters in northern Syria for a third day Monday but failed to stop their advance, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based monitor said Turkish troops were shelling the road to the west of the town of Tal Rifaat, which has been a key...

 Austria announced Monday it will place six nations including Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia on its list of "safe countries of origin", as it seeks to curb the number of economic migrants. The decision, which will also see Georgia, Ghana and Mongolia added to the list, was taken after the...

Witnesses say Bahrain has arrested four American journalists covering the anniversary of its 2011 uprising amid a long crackdown on dissent in the tiny island nation, witnesses said Monday. Bahrain said it detained the four for entering the country without obtaining a media visa and for...

Turkey on Monday accused Russia of an "obvious war crime" after missile attacks in northern Syria killed scores of people, and warned Kurdish militia fighters there they would face the "harshest reaction" if they tried to capture a town near the Turkish border. An offensive...

Libya's Presidential Council named a revised lineup late on Sunday for a unity government under a United Nations-backed plan aimed at ending the conflict in the North African state. One of the council's members, Fathi al-Majbari, said in a televised statement that the list of...