Condemning Syria's "barbaric" sieges, the United Nations demanded Friday immediate access to besieged towns to deliver food, medicine and other life-saving aid to civilians facing starvation. "There can be no reason or rational, no explanation or excuse, for preventing aid from reaching...

 Romanian border authorities say they have stopped a group of 60 migrants who are suspected of trying to enter illegally across Romania's southwest border from Serbia. Police spokeswoman Roxana Costache said Saturday the migrants were men aged 20 to 40 and came from Pakistan, Iraq,...

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit Riyadh and Tehran in a bid to mend ties between the arch-rivals after the Saudi execution of a prominent Shiite cleric led to mob attacks on the kingdom's diplomatic posts in Iran. Federal Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid said...

International sanctions on Iran will be lifted Saturday when the United Nations nuclear agency declares Tehran has complied with an agreement to scale back its nuclear program, Iran's foreign minister said. Foreign Minister Javad Zarif arrived in Vienna, headquarters of the...

German prosecutors have offered a cash reward of 10,000 euros ($10,890) for information that could lead to the arrest of suspects in mass sexual assaults on women partying on New Year's Eve in the city of Cologne. More than 600 women in several cities across Germany filed...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- “The Mother of Martyrs”, Iranian opposition woman had died few days ago, and now she would meet her 6 sons and a daughter and son-in-law who were killed by the Iranian regime. She spent her life between graveyards and prisons as she spent years of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- You can download the nominal list of Syrian youth who are required by the Syrian army's elite Fourth Armored Division for military service. Fourth Armored Division, which form the core of the country's security forces, is led by Maher al-Assad, the younger brother of Bashar...

The U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF on Friday confirmed cases of severe malnutrition among children in the besieged western Syrian town of Madaya, where local relief workers reported 32 deaths of starvation in the past month. A mobile clinic and medical team of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent was on...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- Nabil Abdul latif al-Fadli, a Saudi-born Syrian who killed 10 German tourists in a suicide bombing in Istanbul, was planning a major attack on New Year's Eve celebrations in Ankara but changed targets after the plot was foiled, two senior Turkish officials have told...

The new head of the UN’s refugee agency visited a camp in southeastern Turkey on Friday. Filippo Grandi, who became the High Commissioner for Refugees earlier this month, arrived at the camp in Gaziantep province’s Nizip district where some of the near 2.5 million refugees housed by Turkey...

Ahmad Dawabsheh, the sole survivor of the Palestinian family whose house was burned down by Israeli extremists last year, told Anadolu Agency that he is looking forward to meeting his favorite football player Cristiano Ronaldo. “He is the best player, but I only see him on TV,” Ahmad,...

The U.S. military said Friday eight civilians likely were killed and three wounded in airstrikes against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria between April 12 and July 4 last year. It was only the third time since the start of the U.S.-led air campaign against ISIS in 2014 that the U.S. military's...

A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces during protests along the border with Gaza on Friday, the Palestinian enclave's health ministry said, following a three-month spike in violence. Mohammed Abu Zaida, 18, died after being shot in the neck, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said. Two...

Russia said Friday it had launched "humanitarian operations" in Syria where it is carrying out a bombing campaign against the Islamic State group, claiming peaceful life was slowly returning to the war-torn country. "The inhabitants are gradually coming back to Syrian cities and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6,000 people have fled regime major attack on rebel-held areas in southern countryside of Hama, activists said Friday. Hundreds of displaced families of Har Banafsheh and Deir al-Faris villages have headed the nearby al-Houla region in the northern countryside of...

 Russia and Syria in August signed an agreement giving Moscow the go-ahead for an open-ended military presence in the war-torn country, Moscow has revealed. The agreement was signed in Damascus on Aug. 26, 2015, more than a month before Russia launched a bombing campaign against the ISIS...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad)- Syrian businessmen even the loyalists to the regime are not protected from being chased by the Syrian intelligence, as was shown via the archive of 1.7 million of the Syrian intelligence Zaman Al Wasl obtains. Eqtsad will publish more...

The number of Islamist militant fighters returning to Germany from Syria and Iraq is on the rise and more than 400 people are being watched, the head of German police said Friday. Holger Muench, president of the BKA federal police, told ARD television that the number of people leaving Germany...

Iraq sent an armored army division and a police strike force into the southern oil city of Basra to disarm residents amid intensified feuding between rival Shi'ite Muslim tribes, a local official and three security sources said on Friday. The majority of crude exports from...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes conducted at least 50 raids on rebel-held towns in Hama and Homs provinces, killing and wounding 7  Free Syrian Army fighters, activists said on Thursday. Regime forces backed by Russian jets are seeking to capture villages of Har Benefseh and Deir...