(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces to launch major offensive on the northern countryside of Homs after pressing advances in the nearby countryside of Hama province, activists said.  Bashar al-Assad'd forces and key ally Russia seek to capture a-Rastan town and Teir Maalain in the...

Turkey's parliament will set up a committee to consider lifting the immunity of two leaders of the main Kurdish party so they can be tried over their call for autonomy, the pro-government Sabah daily said Sunday. The report came after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Selahattin...

A Turkish court has remanded in custody two Daesh members, who were allegedly planning an attack in capital Ankara on New Year's Eve, said Turkish officials Saturday. According to officials from the prosecutor's office, the suspects are charged with of belonging to a terror organization and...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad)- The Turkish government offers huge area of agricultural land for investment and provides benefits and donations to investors as well. Eqtsad, Fellow Zaman Al Wasl's newspaper,  has interviewed Tammam Baroudi Vice-President of the...

The White House expects that Iran will finish the work it needs to trigger implementation of a landmark nuclear deal with world powers in the coming weeks, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said on Saturday. Rhodes said Iran still had a number of important...

Iran's Foreign Ministry called for calm in the early hours of Sunday after police dispersed angry protesters who had stormed Saudi Arabia's embassy in Tehran. Demonstrators broke into the embassy and started fires before being cleared away by the police, Iran's ISNA news agency reported, after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has extended its major aerial and ground offensive on the two besieged towns of Moadamiya and Daraya, south of the capital, dropping at least 30 barrel bombs, activists said Saturday. For over a weeks, Syrian Republican Guards and notorious Division 4 have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 105 rebel fighters, including 15 Free Syrian Army commanders, were assassinated in 2015, in the southern province of Daraa, local activists said. The unprecedented death toll for commanders in Daraa had been accompanied with large record of kidnapping FSA commander...

A German foreign ministry official expressed concern on Saturday about the execution in Saudi Arabia of prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Nimr al-Nimr and reaffirmed the country's view that the death penalty is an inhumane form of punishment. "The execution of Nimr al-Nimr strengthens our...

A group of computer hackers that wants to target Islamic State has claimed it was behind a cyber attack on the BBC which it intended as a test of its own capabilities, according to messages sent to a reporter at the broadcaster on Saturday. "It was only a test, we didn't...

 Iraq's military says ISIS militants have launched suicide attacks in the western city of Ramadi days after troops drove them out of the city center. Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Belawi told The Associated Press Saturday that the militants stuck security forces the day before with seven...

 The Saudi-led coalition that has been bombing the Houthi movement in Yemen for nine months announced Saturday the end to a ceasefire that began on Dec. 15 but was repeatedly violated by both sides, the Saudi state news agency SPA said on its twitter account. "The leadership...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 195 Syrian people have died of starvation in 2015 across the war-torn country due to the suffocating siege and starvation policy imposed by Syrian regime, local monitoring groups said. Syria's Revolutionaries Rally said 132 children, 55 men, and 21 women have...

Saudi Arabia says it has executed 47 prisoners, including prominent Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The cleric's name was among a list of the 47 carried by the state-run Saudi Press Agency. It cited the Interior Ministry for the information. Saudi state television also reported...

A suicide bomber attacked a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, Saturday, killing himself and at least three others, Somali police said. The attacker, dressed in a business suit over a suicide vest, detonated the bomb after entering the Village Restaurant, police...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Reuters)- A snowstorm hit Lebanon on Friday, local media reported, stranding motorists and adding to the woes of tens of thousands of Syrian refugees living in makeshift shelters, Reuters reported. Emergency services deployed bulldozers to try to clear roads in...

Terrified families waved white flags as they emerged from homes reduced to rubble in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where government troops were still battling Islamic State fighters holed up on Friday, five days after the army recaptured the city center. The provincial capital in the fertile...

A gunman identified by relatives as a member of Israel's Arab minority killed two people on a bustling thoroughfare in central Tel Aviv on Friday before fleeing, an incident that ramped up tensions after three months of Palestinian street violence. Security camera footage showed the...

Germany received a tip hours before midnight that militants from Iraq and Syria were planning New Year attacks in Munich but police could not find the suspects and are not even sure if they exist or are in the country, the city's police chief said on Friday. Hubertus Andrae told a news...

A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters advanced against Islamist insurgents in the north of the country on Friday, capturing at least one village in Aleppo province, a spokesman and a monitoring group said. Fighters from the Democratic Forces of Syria seized the...