(Zaman Al Wasl)- Death toll of the six-month-old siege imposed  on the town of Madaya northwest of  Damascus has risen to 31, local activists and medics said Wednesday. Of 31 deaths in Madaya in recent weeks, 10 were attributed to a lack of food and the rest were either shot...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Southern Front rebels launched new attack early Wednesday on regime army in the northern frontline of Sheikh Miskeen town in Daraa province, sources said. 'Ahl al-Nakhwa' battle has left number of regime soldiers dead and two tanks destroyed, field commander said....

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian regime and rebel bombardment killed at least 20 civilians and wounded dozens in the capital and a nearby Eastern Ghouta suburbs on Wednesday, state media and am activist group said. Mortar rounds fired from the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region onto residential...

At least 178 Palestinians were killed and 16,200 others were injured by Israeli forces in 2015, according to official figures from the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The ministry also said that a total of 143 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli soldiers and police in occupied East...

British lawmakers on Tuesday urged the country to accept thousands of Syrian child refugees who otherwise face a “perilous journey” across Europe. Members of parliament’s International Development Committee said unaccompanied children risked exploitation on their journey. Chairman Stephen...

Islamic State threatened to destroy Saudi Arabian prisons holding jihadists after Riyadh's execution of 47 people including 43 convicted al Qaeda militants. The militant group, which has claimed responsibility for attacks in the kingdom and stepped up operations in neighboring...

(Zaman Al Wals)- Powerful Islam Army group arrested two brothers in Eastern Ghouta suburbs east of Damascus over links with the Islamic State, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. Nasif al-Mohamed, 24, and his brother Ahmed, 17, who work in local relief associations in Yelda suburb, were...

(The Guardian)- Islamic State militants murdered a journalist who wrote about daily life in occupied Raqqa, having accused her of being a spy, activists have confirmed. Ruqia Hassan, 30, was killed in September, but news of her death became widely known this week after Isis claimed...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Unidentified assailants killed Tuesday top commander of Ahrar al-Sham movement in the central Homs province, the powerful Islamist group said in statement. Ahrar's Shura Council member and its Emir in Homs province, Mohamed Hassan al-Said, was killed when unknown armed men...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime staged its aerial and ground bombardment on the southern suburbs of Damascus Tuesday, targeting Daraya with 4 surface-to-surface missiles, activist said. For two weeks, Syrian Republican Guards and notorious Division 4 have intensified siege on Moadamiya town and...

 (Zaman Al Wasl- Photos)- Despite the snowstorm that has been sweeping the central province of Homs for a week, rebels of al-Hola region keep their alert high.   One of Ahrar al-Sham fighters said rebels should be awake all the time to avoid any surprise attack by Syrian regime...

Saudi Arabia is determined that tensions with Iran should not derail international talks on Syria, another round of which is scheduled to take place in Geneva this month, the U.N. special envoy for Syria said on Tuesday. The United Nations has set a target date of Jan. 25 for the...

Turkish security forces have killed at least 14 militants in the mainly Kurdish southeast, the military said on Tuesday, as an army campaign to quell fighting that has spread to the streets of cities entered a third week. A member of the "village guard", a Kurdish militia fighting...

Roman Catholic officials said Tuesday that a Franciscan priest who had been abducted by militants in Syria has been freed. The custodian of the Catholic Church's properties in the Holy Land said the priest, Rev. Dhiya Azziz, was released late Monday. The office of the custodian, Rev....

  Islamic State's territory shrank by 40 percent from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20 percent in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the U.S.-led coalition fighting it said on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the...

Iran ian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday Saudi Arabia cannot hide "its crime" of executing Shi'ite Muslim cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr by cutting ties with Tehran. "Saudi Arabia cannot hide its crime of beheading a religious leader by severing political relations with...

The U.S.-led coalition on Monday staged 20 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in its latest daily attacks on the militant group, the coalition leading the operations said. In a statement released on Tuesday, the Combined Joint Task Force said 19 strikes near six...

Saudi-led air strikes targeting Iranian-allied Houthi forces intensified in Yemen on Tuesday, residents said, an escalation of a nine-month-old war that follows a rise in tensions between the kingdom and arch foe Tehran. After weeks of a relative lull, large air strikes targeted...

Turkey's gendarmerie said it found the bodies of 21 migrants, three of them children, at two separate locations on the Aegean coast on Tuesday after their boat apparently capsized as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. Eleven of the bodies were discovered on the shoreline in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- People of the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in the central city of Homs have reported a new breach to the U.N.-brokered deal reached last month as the main crossing has been locked this week, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. The rare ceasefire deal reached on December 10 stated...