Lebanese security forces said on Thursday they had arrested a senior member of an al Qaeda-linked militant group that has carried out attacks in the country. A security source described Bilal Mezher as an "important catch", close to Sirajeddine Zureiqat, head of the Abdullah...
A drawing in French satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo suggesting Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy found dead on a Turkish beach last year, would have grown up to be a sex attacker caused outrage online on Thursday. The cartoon depicts two male creatures running...
(Zaman Al Was)- A Syrian infant in the besieged town of Moadamiyet al-Sham southern Damascus has died of malnutrition on Thursday, local activists said. As Madaya's hunger crimes committed by Syrian regime are still echoing, the voices have risen to shed the light on the neighboring...
An explosion hit a major oil pipeline south of the Libyan terminal of Ras Lanouf overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, a spokesman for the Libya's National Oil Corp said. Mohamed al-Harari said it was not clear what had caused the explosion at the pipeline, which has been closed for...
Donald Trump added a new riff to his campaign speech Tuesday: the lyrics of Al Whiston's song "The Snake." In the song, a woman takes care of an injured snake and is then surprised when it bites her. Trump sees the song as a fitting comparison to the U.S. decision to take in Syrian...
Ten Yemeni prisoners held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been transferred to Oman, a U.S. official said on Thursday, bringing the inmate population below the symbolically important milestone of 100 as President Barack Obama seeks to close the facility. Oman's state news...
Aid was sent on Thursday to a Syrian town blockaded by pro-government forces and two villages besieged by rebels for the second time this week, and a U.N. official said he hoped to make more deliveries to areas where people are starving. Dozens of trucks left Damascus for the town of...
Iran has removed the sensitive core of its Arak nuclear reactor and U.N. inspectors will visit the site on Thursday to verify the move crucial to the implementation of Tehran's atomic agreement with major powers, state television said on Thursday. Removal of the core from the Arak...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Activists reported mounting cases of abduction and forced disappearance in al-Tal city north of Damascus over blackmailed background. Abduction reached to teachers, doctors and other civilians, many of them were released after...
Egyptian security forces have arrested two people for managing multiple Facebook pages they said were used to support the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and encourage protest, the Interior Ministry said. The move intensified a security crackdown on dissent in the run-up to the fifth...
A prominent Syrian opposition politician said on Thursday he thought it unrealistic that peace talks will begin on Jan. 25 in Geneva as planned unless sieges are lifted and humanitarian aid for civilians allowed in. A U.N envoy had earlier said the talks were still on schedule. "I...
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu strongly condemned an overnight truck bomb attack on a police station in the mostly Kurdish southeast Turkey Thursday, and vowed Turkey would continue its fight against "every kind of terror." Speaking at a technology forum in Ankara, Davutoglu...
ISIS militants pushed through a gap in the Iraqi army frontline Thursday to capture a northern village, local sources said, demonstrating the group's continued reach after a major defeat in the west. The dawn attacks on Tal Kusaiba, around 35 km (20 miles) east of Tikrit, killed the police...
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called for revenge attacks in Saudi Arabia and on the West after the kingdom's execution of some 40 extremists, according to a message posted online. In the message, Zawahiri called on supporters to attack "the Crusader-Zionist coalition whenever possible"...
Members of the U.S.-led coalition fighting ISIS will meet in Paris next week to reinforce efforts against the group, France's defense minister said Thursday, adding that the militants were clearly retreating in Iraq. "We struck last night in Mosul on a Daesh telecommunications center, a...
A convoy of 50 aid trucks heading for the besieged Syrian town of Madaya set off from Damascus on Thursday, a Reuters witness said. The convoy is the second this week to the town near the Lebanese border, where thousands are trapped and local doctors say some have starved to death.
(ZamanAl Wasl)- Syrian rebels have recaptured on Thursday all checkpoints they lost to favor of regime forces the day before in the southern countryside of Aleppo province. Field source told Zaman al Wasl that rebels have recaptured al-Hersh district...
The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria said after meeting representatives of the United States, Russia and other major powers on Wednesday that Syria peace talks were still planned to start in Geneva on Jan. 25. Staffan de Mistura told reporters they had discussed access to...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian suicide bomber who carried out the attack in Istanbul's historic tourist district a day earlier was wanted by the Syrian regime, his criminal record that obtained by Zaman al-Wasl with 2.5 mn leaked documents has showed. Nabil Abdul latif al-Fadhli, who was...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl has exclusively obtained the passport copies of Syrian regime Foreign Minister, Walid Mohieddine Al Moualem and his vice, Fayssal Mekdad. Two more copies obtained for Al Moualem's powerful aide Hisham al-Kadi and the head of the Foreign Ministry's private office,...
