( NOW English News)- Syrian rebels operating north of Aleppo backed by the reported help of Turkish artillery fire have gained ground against ISIS along a stretch of territory that Ankara aims to turn into a "safe zone."   Since the weekend, rebel factions in the Marea...

ISIS Wednesday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack targeting the Pakistani consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. In an Arabic statement released via Twitter, the group said the attack was carried out by three ISIS fighters, two of whom blew themselves up by detonating...

France has banned three Islamic cultural associations which ran a mosque in the Paris area that was shut down following November's attacks on the capital, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday. "There is no place in the French republic for groups which provoke and which call for...

Chinese authorities have formally arrested China's most prominent woman human rights lawyer, accusing her of subverting the state, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights. The lawyer, Wang Yu, was taken into custody...

Turkey's interior minister said Wednesday the suicide bomber in an attack which killed 10 people in Istanbul's historic tourist district a day earlier was not on any wanted list but had registered with Turkey's immigration authorities. Efkan Ala said the man's fingerprints were on record with...

At least 15 Yemeni civilians were killed in an airstrike by a Saudi-led military coalition outside the capital, residents said Wednesday, as prospects for a new round of U.N.-sponsored talks to end the war in Yemen dimmed. A spokesman for the coalition said the reports of the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of the key Eastern Ghouta Suburb of Arbin have elected on Wednesday their local council, such a remarkable participation by the residents who defied Syrian regime air strikes, local reporter said. The voting atmosphere in the embattled town near the capital was...

Turkish authorities detained three Russian nationals suspected of links with Islamic State following a suicide bomb attack in Istanbul that killed 10 tourists, media reports said on Wednesday. A suicide bomber thought to have crossed recently from Syria killed nine German and...

A suspected suicide bomb blast Wednesday killed at least 14 people close to a polio eradication center in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, police said, with most of those killed policemen detailed to guard vaccination workers. At least 12 policemen, one paramilitary officer and one civilian...

 An Israeli air raid Wednesday in the northern Gaza Strip targeting alleged militants killed one Palestinian and wounded three others, a Palestinian official and the Israeli army said. Israeli aircraft "targeted a terror cell plotting to detonate an explosive device against (military)...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Hezbollah militant who has been taken captive by rebels south of Damascus said he is a father of five more militants fighting in Syria, field commander told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. Abu Nafea al-Dimashqi, commander of Dhuha al-Islam Brigade, said rebels had taken captive...

Syria’s regime army and allied forces Tuesday took full control from rebel groups of the strategic town of Salma, in the northwestern province of Latakia, state television reported. In a breaking news flash, the channel said the army, backed by the pro-government National Defense Forces...

The United States has softened its stance on Syria including the future of President Bashar al-Assad to accommodate Russia, opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said, warning the opposition would face a hard choice on whether to attend peace talks this month. Hijab, who was chosen in December as...

Aid workers who reached a besieged Syrian town spoke of "heartbreaking" conditions being endured by emaciated and starving residents, with hundreds in need of specialized medical help. An aid convoy on Monday brought the first food and medical relief for months to the western town of Madaya,...

Syria's opposition coalition on Tuesday denounced the attack by a Syrian suicide bomber that killed 10 people in Istanbul's tourist heartland. The Istanbul-based National Coalition "strongly condemns the terrorist explosion... and presents its condolences to the families of the victims," the...

( Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has staged more deadly air strikes on the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, killing at least 55 people on Tuesday, activists said. The devastating Russian aerial campaign has killed 25 people in the ISIS-held town of Manbej, including 3 children and 5 women, and...

At least seven Sunni mosques and dozens of shops in eastern Iraq were firebombed Tuesday, security sources and local officials said, a day after 23 people were killed there in two blasts claimed by ISIS. Ten people were also shot and killed in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of...

Most of the 10 people killed in the Istanbul blast Tuesday were German citizens, Turkish Prime Minister told German Chancellor Angela Merkel by phone, sources in Ahmet Davutoglu's office said. Davutoglu also told Merkel on the same phone call that the details of an ongoing investigation...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The exclusive archive of the Syrian intelligence and criminal records, obtained by Zaman Al Wasl has 28 notices against members of al-Assad family out of 2.5 million criminal notices and 1.7 million intelligence notices and arrest...

 ( Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia has staged more deadly strikes on the northern countryside of Aleppo on Tuesday, killing at least 35 people, activists said. The devastating strikes on the ISIS-held town of Manbej have killed 25 civilians and wounded 40 more people. In...