U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the United States and Turkey were prepared for a military solution against Islamic State in Syria should the Syrian government and rebels fail to reach a political settlement. The latest round of Syria peace talks are planned...

Russia and Pakistan plan to carry out joint military exercises later this year, a high-ranking Russian military officer has said. Speaking to reporters in Moscow on Friday, Oleg Salyukov, commander-in-chief of Russia’s ground forces, said the Russian army planned to carry out seven joint...

Twenty-seven-year-old Mamun Khalid Nasir is thankful to be alive, but he is now bedridden. It all happened almost a year ago, after he was injured by a barrel bomb dropped by Assad regime helicopters in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib. The father of five has since lost his legs and the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Om Yasin, a Syrian refugee from Homs lives in Mafraq city in Jordan, suffers of renal failure and kidney stones, she suspects that a medical mistake caused her renal failure. Mrs Faiza al-Zardah who came to Jordan few years ago, told Zaman Al Wasl...

Syrian armed rebel groups said on Saturday they held the Syrian government and Russia responsible for any failure of peace talks to end the country's civil war, even before negotiations due to start in Geneva next week. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was confident the talks set for...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wals)- Syrian rebels in the northern countryside of Homs have targeted water and power supplies that feed regime-held areas, a move aimed to ease pressure on the southern countryside of Hama as regime army and allied militias carry out major attack....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islamic State fighters on Saturday have taken two border towns with Turkey from rebels in the northern countryside of Aleppo, local reporter said. ISIS captured towns of al-Bel and Braghida after surprise attack on rebels checkpoints started by a suicide bombing. Also in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-- Syrian rebels have reached a ceasefire deal with rival Jaysh al-Thuwar group in the northern countryside of Aleppo province, local reporter said Saturday. The ceasefire came to end a series of skirmishes between both sides along the the last two months. Rebels took towns of...

A series of air raids killed scores of people over the past 24 hours in the provinces of Raqqa and Deir al-Zor in northern and eastern Syria, which are mostly controlled by ISIS, an activist group said on Saturday. The death toll in two towns near the city of Deir al-Zor reached 44, in strikes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jaysh al-Yarmouk said Friday that controlling the bases of Al-Muthanna Islamic Movement in the southern province of Daraa came in implementation of the Justice House decision and not to sow discord and sedition. The key unit of Free Syrian Army said in statement that seizing...

Fires at oil storage tanks in the major Libyan terminal of Ras Lanuf were still raging on Friday more than 24 hours after an attack by Islamic State militants, a firefighting official said. Mustafa Moussi said fires were burning at five of the terminal's 13 storage tanks, one of...

Turkish police have seized more than 2,500 unsafe life jackets destined for migrants wanting to cross the Aegean Sea to Greece, in the latest crackdown on businesses exploiting refugees in western Turkey, reports said Friday. Police raided 120 underground workshops and companies in eight...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed source said Syria's exiled opposition, the National Coalition, is to elect Riad Hijab, former Prime Minister, as a successor of Khaled Khoja this week. Hijab was appointed last month in Riyadh as the General Coordinator of the High Negotiation Committee that...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 17 people, including 7 children, have been killed in Russia's vacuum missile attack on a border town with Turkey, activists said Friday. The 4-month-old Russian aerial campaign has targeted the town of Sarmada and the neighboring district of Bab al Hawa border...

 Syrian government forces edged closer to a key rebel town in the coastal province of Latakia Friday, backed by Russian air strikes and military advisers, activists said. Soldiers and pro-government fighters advanced to around five kilometers (three miles) from the town of Rabia, the...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he believed that, with effort and good faith on both sides, it would be possible to implement the Minsk agreements on Ukraine in coming months to allow for a lifting of sanctions on Russia. In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Dozens of regime troops and allied militias have been killed in clashes with ISIS near Mahin town in the eastern countryside of Homs province, activists said Friday. 8 militants from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) were among the dead as the fighting near...

 Pictures of  Bashar Assad hang on nearly every building in the town of Salma, which regime troops captured last week in one of their most significant advances since Russia intervened militarily on their side. The Syrian government offensive has given Assad a stronger hand going into...

The United State's main concern with North Korea is its nuclear program, the U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday, adding that American officials are eyeing the Korean peninsula daily. "The biggest worry about North Korea has been – other than its sort of strange and isolated behavior...

Tunisia has declared a nationwide curfew after days of protests and rioting over jobs and economic conditions, the interior ministry announced . Protests over unemployment in the country, which started in the western Kasserine province, intensified and spread to other parts of the...