Twin suicide bombings hit two restaurants in a Kurdish-controlled city in northeastern Syria on Wednesday, killing or wounding dozens of people, a Kurdish official and a group monitoring the war said. The explosions took place in Qamishli, near the Turkish border, the Kurdish...

 (Sputnik) — Turkey is changing its visa-free entry policy for Syrian citizens and will demand visas from Syrians arriving in the country from third countries by air and sea starting from January 8, 2016, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime social media activists have mourned 20 regime army troops said they had been killed on Wednesday in Sheikh Miskeen town in the southern province of Daraa, including Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Al Ali, the commander of the military campaign with 5 more officers. Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels have thwarted regime attack on Sheikh Miskeen town in the southern province of Daraa, field sources said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said regime army forces backed by fighters from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement have engaged in fierce clashes...

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Turkey on Jan. 23 and will meet President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, sources from the Turkish prime minister's office said on Wednesday. Biden and Davutoglu discussed the Turkish military presence in northern Iraq...

Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday it could resort to military means if forced to defend itself from what it says is an intrusion of Turkish forces into part of its north. Turkey said it had deployed a force protection unit earlier this month to the area due to...

(The Guardian)- Three months of Russian airstrikes in Syria have killed more than 2,300 people, a third of them civilians, a monitoring group has said. Russia began conducting its air war in Syria on 30 September in support of its embattled ally, President Bashar al-Assad. According to the...

The United States and its allies staged 28 air strikes on Tuesday against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement. In Syria, four strikes near four cities struck tactical units and an oil pump station, and destroyed two vehicles and an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia's warplanes have conducted more than 40 raids on ISIS-held ancient city of Palmyra and neighboring towns, local activists said Wednesday. The air strikes have also targeted the eastern countryside of Homs.   In its turn, Syrian army has pounded al-Qaryatayn town...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A prominent journalism watchdog has called on Turkey to protect exiled Syrian journalists on its territory after an opposition journalist was fatally shot near the border with Syria, AP reported. Naji al-Jarf, 38, the editor-in-chief of pro-opposition Hentah Magazine died in...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Well-informed sources said a U.S-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups is preparing to fight Islamist insurgents instead of ISIS at a request of Bashar al-Assad delivered by his key ally Russia. Sources said Assad's concerns have risen over ISIS defeats...

Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near the U.S. aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman and other warships as they were entering the Gulf on Saturday, giving only brief notice in a "highly provocative" act, a U.S. military spokesman said on Tuesday. NBC News, citing unnamed U.S. military...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian crisis continued as one of the world's most important cased during 2015, Zaman Al Wasl proved to be one of the most sites interested in the Syrian issue according to "Alexa" rank. 2015 can be considered as the year of widening intervention...

Saudi Arabia denounced on Tuesday the killing of a prominent Syrian rebel leader, saying his death in a Russian air strike last week did not serve the cause of peace in Syria. Zahran Alloush, 44, who headed the rebel group Jaysh al-Islam, was killed when Russian warplanes struck...

Syrian rebels shelled two Shi'ite villages in the northwest of the country on Tuesday, killing at least one person, residents said, a day after pro-government fighters and civilians left the area for Turkey under a local ceasefire agreement. Britain-based monitoring group the...

France has asked the European Union to improve the detection of fake Syrian passports used by people trying to get into Europe after two of the suicide bombers in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks were found carrying such passports. In a letter to the European Commission, French Interior Minister...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's Republican Guards forces and notorious Fourth Armored Division have intensified siege on Moadamiyet al-Sham town west of Damascus as rebels refuse to surrender or to evacuate the town in similar scenario to fellow fighters in Homs and Zabadani. Bashar al-Assad's forces...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Brigade 82 in southern province of Daraa is still under rebels control, field sources told Zaman al Wasl Tuesday, as rebels thwart regime major attack on the strategic military base. Early Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syria's state news agency...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russian air strikes on northern Aleppo province killed ten people late on Monday backing a ground offensive by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), local reporter said. The Russian air strikes took place in Tel Ref'at town as the alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab...

Two people were arrested in Belgium on Sunday and Monday, both suspected of plotting an attack in Brussels on New Year's Eve, federal prosecutors said. Police found military clothing and Islamic State propaganda material but no weapons or explosives, prosecutors said on Tuesday....