The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State aims this year to recapture Iraq’s second city Mosul, working with Iraqi government forces, and drive the jihadis out of Raqqa, their stronghold in northeast Syria, Arab and Western officials say. If it succeeds, the coalition will...

 The Syrian regime army and its allies made further advances on Tuesday in a major offensive that could cut insurgents' supply lines between the north western city of Aleppo and the Turkish border, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The advances, backed by allied...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar Jaafari, the Permanent Representative of the Syrian regime to the United Nations, has been dubbed “the Lion of Geneva Negotiations” by regime loyalist due to his eagerness to defend the Syrian regime and adopting its...

President Barack Obama's administration will seek a significant increase in funding for the fight against Islamic State as part of its 2017 defense budget request, U.S. officials say, in another possible sign of U.S. efforts to intensify the campaign. The fiscal year 2017...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is undermining international efforts to end the Syrian civil war by bombing opponents of Islamic State in an attempt to bolster Bashar al-Assad, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Monday. In a clear sign of frustration with the Kremlin, Hammond...

King Abdullah of Jordan says his country is at "boiling point" because of an influx of hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Ahead of a donor conference on Syria, the king told the BBC that there was enormous pressure on Jordan's social services, infrastructure and economy. "Sooner or...

Nearly two dozen nations gather on Tuesday to plot their fight against the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq and how to choke off its rise in Libya. The meeting takes place as talks have begun in Geneva to try to end the five-year Syrian civil war, which has killed at...

Syria's government agreed on Monday to allow aid into several besieged areas including the starvation-struck town of Madaya, the UN said, in an apparent goodwill gesture ahead of peace talks. "The government has in principle approved convoys... to Madaya and simultaneously to Kafraya and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops and allied fighters captured two villages in the northern countryside of Aleppo on Monday, putting a key supply route used by opposition forces into firing range, according to Reuters. Rebels said the offensive was being conducted with massive Russian air...

The Syrian government must within a few days state its readiness to implement goodwill measures on the ground, an opposition official said on Monday, accusing the U.N. peace envoy of overstepping the mark by declaring the start of peace talks. "The Syrian regime must state directly, frankly...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Five rebel groups in central provinces of Homs and Hama have formed joint operations room to fight regime troops who wage major attack on the southern countryside of Hama, activists said on Monday.   For over a month, regime forces backed by Russian jets have been...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels fought back against an offensive by regime forces near a supply route into the city of Aleppo on Monday and said there had been no letup in Russian air strikes, despite a promise of goodwill moves by Damascus to spur peace talks, Reuters said. U.N. envoy...

Syria's main opposition group said it would meet with the U.N.'s special envoy Staffan de Mistura later on Monday after he gave them a "positive response" and they received assurances from international backers on humanitarian issues. "We have come to Geneva to seek relief for our people by...

An 11-year-old child was killed and nine members of his family were wounded Sunday when a rocket fired from Yemen hit their house in a border region of Saudi Arabia, civil defense authorities said. The child died instantly while the rest of the family were taken to hospital,...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A statement delivered by a member of the regime’s delegation to Syrian peace talks in Geneva has confirmed that the People’s Protection Units (YPG) fought with the regime against the Free Syrian Army and other opposition’s formations. Omar Osi, a...

ocumenting 119 sorties it said related to violations of international humanitarian law. "The Arab coalition announces the formation of a high-level independent committee ... to evaluate the events, identification and targeting mechanisms and developing them," the Saudi mission's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian warplanes staged more raids on rebel-held countryside of Aleppo, killing and wounding dozens on Sunday, local reporter said. The aerial bombing on Marea town in the northern countryside has killed three people while 14 more have been killed and wounded in cluster bombs...

A battle involving gunfire and knives erupted at a Denver motorcycle exposition on Saturday afternoon, leaving at least one person dead and sending seven people to the hospital, authorities said. There were no immediate arrests in the mayhem, which took place at the Colorado Motorcycle Expo at...

Both Turkish and NATO radars detected a Russian jet violating Turkish airspace, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Sunday, refuting Russian claims that the violation was "pure propaganda." Turkey said on Saturday a Russian SU-34 jet had violated its airspace despite...

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai will seek to inspire world leaders at a conference in London on Thursday to commit $1.4 billion this year to give Syrian refugee children access to education, she told Reuters on Sunday. Heads of state and government and ministers from countries...