The United Nations said Saturday it aims to bring together Syria's warring parties on Jan. 25 in Geneva to begin talks to try to end nearly five years of civil war. U.N. Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura plans to convene representatives of the Syrian government and "the broadest possible...

An Egyptian court has convicted two police officers in absentia over torturing a detainee to death and critically injuring another as part of a government crackdown on police abuses. Judge Saeed Sabry on Saturday sentenced the officers to life in prison after the prosecution presented forensic...

A Kurdish militant group once linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for an attack at Istanbul's second airport this week that left an aircraft cleaner dead and injured another. In a statement, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) said they...

The Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza accused Egyptian forces on Saturday of killing a mentally-ill Palestinian who had waded through the sea into Egypt's territory. The incident happened on Friday, Gaza's interior ministry said. Video broadcast by Al-Jazeera network showed the man walking...

Turkey's prime minister Saturday cancelled a planned meeting with the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, saying its politics was rooted in violence, as government forces pursued a major security operation in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was due to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 people killed in barrel bomb attacks on Moadamiyet al-Sham town west of the capital, local activists said Saturday. Moadamiyet al-Sham, also known as Moadamiya, has been under major attack by regime army this week after the collapse of a fragile truce with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The stricken Islam Amy group blew a Syrian army post up in the besieged Jobar neighborhood in Damascus late on Saturday, leaving at least 28  troops dead . A move came  hours after the group's commander kill in Russian air strike. The dominant rebel group, in...

A U.N.-sponsored deal to evacuate more than 2,000 ISIS militants and other militants from rebel-held parts of south Damascus has been delayed, a monitor of the war said on Saturday, after a rebel commander was killed. Coaches has been due to give the fighters safe passage to Raqqa, the de...

ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime troops backed by Russian jets have recaptured vast territory from rebels in the northern countryside of Aleppo after heavy clashes started Friday, local reporter said. The regime army took control of the surrounding suburbs of Bashkoy town, and number of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian dominant rebel group, Islam Army, has appointed Isam Ali al Buweidhani (dubbed: Abu Hamam) as new commander to replace late commander Zaharan Alloush, Bashar al-Assad's stubborn rival, who had been killed on Friday in Russian air strike in Eastern Ghouta Suburbs near the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime intelligence services have issued 9 arrest warrants for Mohammed Zahran Alloush, former Islam Army’s commander (1971- December 25, 2015). According to Intelligence archive that obtained by Zaman Al Wasl, the warrants issued in 2012, 2013 and 2014, no:...

Iraqi troops who have fought their way deep into the Islamic State stronghold of Ramadi were consolidating their positions on Friday ahead of a planned final assault to capture the city.Soldiers were clearing bombs from roads and homes in districts of Ramadi they had already taken since...

The United States and its allies conducted 31 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Thursday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Friday. In Syria, a dozen strikes using fighters and drones near five cities included eight strikes near Mar'a and Manbij...

A top Syrian rebel leader and head of the most powerful insurgent group in the eastern suburbs of Damascus was killed in an aerial raid that targeted the group's headquarters, rebel sources and the Syrian army said on Friday. The death of Zahran Alloush, head of Jaysh al Islam, is a big blow to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Four people, including a mother and her two children, have been killed in barrel bomb attack on Nawa town in the the southern province of Daraa, activists said Friday. Activists also reported casualties in regime's aerial bombardment on the next-door Sheikh Miskeen...

ALEPPO (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia on Friday has stepped up its devastating air strikes on the rebel-held areas in northern Aleppo province, killing12 civilians in strikes focused on the two main hospitals of Azaz town, local reporter said. Two children and one woman were among the casualties....

 Pope Francis offered his full support for U.N. efforts to end the conflicts in Syria and Libya in his Christmas message Friday. "We pray... that the agreement reached in the United Nations may succeed in halting as quickly as possible the clash of arms in Syria and in remedying the...

Two thousand Syrian Islamist fighters, including ISIS and Nusra Front militants, were expected to be evacuated soon from besieged, rebel-held areas of southern Damascus in a deal brokered by the U.N., Reuters said Friday. Eighteen buses had arrived in the al Qadm area of Damascus to take them...

Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group’s Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking in body parts.     The ruling, contained in a January 31, 2015...

Reporting by Abdullah al-Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source told Zaman al Wasl that Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif was very upset over a Jordanian terror list submitted to the United Nations last week, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and...