(Zaman Al Wasl)- A fugitive Turkish intelligence officer, who stood behind Hussein al-Harmoush's kidnapping 4 years ago, has complained lack of appreciation by the Syrian regime for 'sacrifices’ he did, a leaked report obtained by Zaman al-Wasl disclosed. Andor Oglu, 50, was sentenced 20...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- The Levant Front rebel group operating in northern Aleppo province said the breaking of the three-year-old siege of the two Shiite villages came only after more than 500 raids by Russian airplanes, Reuters said. The two towns of Nubl and Zahraa, with an estimated...

A United Nations envoy halted his attempts to conduct Syrian peace talks on Wednesday after the army, backed by Russian air strikes, advanced against rebel forces north of Aleppo, choking opposition supply lines from Turkey to the city. Staffan de Mistura announced a three-week...

The United Nations struggled to save Syrian peace talks as Damascus and its Russian allies seized territory in fierce fighting and rifts widened among embattled rebel factions. The Syrian army said on Wednesday its forces had broken through rebel defenses to reach two Shi'ite...

Several mortar bombs and gunfire from a part of Syria controlled by Islamic State hit a Turkish border town on Wednesday, close to where Turkish soldiers were clearing landmines, local residents and media reports said. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the town of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanon's army killed two Syrian refugees and arrested 11 in the town of Arsal near the border with Syria on Wednesday in what it claimed a raid on Islamic State cells, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. The Lebanese army has killed a man and his wife who fled the town of Qara in...

Prosecutors in Germany are investigating the activities of a 35-year-old Syrian doctorate student they suspect of being involved in a propaganda video for Islamic State (IS) militants. Prosecutors in Frankfurt also suspect the unnamed man of posting a symbol resembling the IS...

Sunni Muslim Arab fighters backed by Kurdish forces and U.S.-led air strikes retook a village in northern Iraq on Wednesday in an example of effective military cooperation on the ground between them against Islamic State insurgents. The offensive in the Makhmour district south...

Under huge strain from an influx of unaccompanied children seeking asylum, the Swedish government faces political pressure to undertake medical tests like X-rays to vet the age of young refugees despite opposition from doctors and lawyers. The controversy reflects tensions...

 An aid convoy carrying food and medicine is on its way to a besieged town southwest of the Syrian capital, the second humanitarian aid delivery to rebel-held areas near Damascus in as many days, a spokesman for the International Committee for the Red Cross said Wednesday. Pawel Krzysiek...

Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani has declared that the "time has come" for the country's Kurds to hold a referendum on statehood, his office said on Wednesday. "The time has come and the conditions are now suitable for the people to make a decision through a referendum on their future,"...

Russia will not stop its air strikes on Syria until armed groups, such as al Qaeda's wing there, are defeated, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said that Russia should stop bombing opposition forces in Syria now that...

Oil futures extended losses into a third session in Asian trade on Wednesday, as U.S. crude stocks last week surged to more than half-a-billion barrels and as Iran plans to boost exports from March. Brent for April delivery had dropped 9 cents to $32.63 a barrel as of 0707 GMT,...

 Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists in the Wadi al-Nasara area revealed that monastery of St. George controlled by National Defence forces (NDF) has been turned into a prison since 2014, in the same period when the Syrian regime and NDF controlled the city of Qala'at...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime helicopters dropped 20 barrel bombs on Daraya, a western suburb of Damascus, killing 5 rebel fighters, including field commander, activists said on Tuesday . Field commander, Mohamed ABu Aanas, and 4 fellow fighters were killed in the embattled Daraya as...

Jordan's state news agency Petra says a helicopter of the Public Security Department crashed during a night training mission, leaving one pilot dead and another seriously injured. Petra says the helicopter crashed late Tuesday near the city of Salt in western Jordan. There was no immediate word...

Syria's Red Crescent on Tuesday delivered aid to a town under government siege outside the capital Damascus, aid workers and a monitor said. "The Syrian Arab Red Crescent today entered Al-Tal, and delivered 14 trucks of aid provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross," said ICRC...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will announce "significant new contributions to support relief efforts" for Syrian refugees on Thursday at an international donor conference in London, the White House said on Tuesday. President Barack Obama discussed Syria and Libya with British Prime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 women and children have been killed Tuesday in Russian air strikes on a Turkmen-dominated village in the northern countryside of Homs, medics told Zaman al-Wasl. In what seemed a deliberate Russian strikes on al-Burj village to provoke Turkey after reports of new...

A Syrian military offensive backed by heavy Russian air strikes threatened to cut critical rebel supply lines into the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, while the warring sides said peace talks had not started despite a U.N. statement they had. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura...