Saudi officials say a Saudi soldier and two Yemenis have been killed in cross-border shooting and shelling by Yemen's Shiite rebels. Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki says a border guard died Sunday in the southwestern region of Asir. He says Yemen's Shiite rebels, known as...

Israel said on Sunday it was suspending contacts with European Union bodies involved in peace efforts with the Palestinians after the bloc started requiring the labelling of exports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the foreign...

( NOW )- Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani has purportedly spoken with an Iranian newspaper amid reports he was injured in Syria.   In an interview Sunday with Al-Waqt, Soleimani praised former Iranian Ambassador to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Our readers and interested human rights advocates can download the nominal list of National Defense militia in Qalamoun region west of the Syrian capital. The detailed list includes names of 2861 militants fighting alongside the regime army who have been accused by...

Russian jets bombed Sunday a bakery built by a Turkish humanitarian agency in the city of Idlib, northwestern Syria. The bakery was established 16 months ago by the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) and it produced about 65,000 loafs of bread per day serving about 40,000 people, the...

Turkey and the European Union agreed at a summit on Sunday on a "historic" three-billion-euro ($3.2 billion) aid deal to stem the flow of Syrian refugees and other migrants to Europe. Ankara's bid for membership of the EU will be kickstarted in return for its...

Turkey recovered the body of a Russian pilot from northern Syria and presented it to Russian diplomats on Sunday, five days after shooting down his warplane in an incident that wrecked relations between two of the main powers involved in Syria's war. A coffin carrying Oleg...

Syrian President Bashar al Assad told a senior Iranian official on Sunday that his adversaries had increased weapon supplies and financial support to insurgents since the start of a major offensive aided by his allies to regain lost territory. Assad was quoted by state media as...

Germany could send 1,200 soldiers to the Middle East by the end of the year to provide service support to planes and ships of a coalition battling Islamic State, Germany's top defense official told a newspaper on Sunday. Chancellor Angela Merkel promised to support the offensive against...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- A former detainee in Sednaya prison revealed that thousands of detainees there were killed in Tishreen Military hospital in Damascus, as the hospital had designated small rooms to each military of civil prison, in those rooms many...

Turkey will help the European Union handle the flow of migrants that has called into question the future of Europe's passport-free travel in exchange for cash and restarting stalled talks on EU accession, draft conclusions of an EU-Turkey summit said. "Both sides will, as agreed and with...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 60 people have been killed in Russian missiles fired into marketplace in Ariha town in the northern province of Idlib, local activists said Sunday. Syrian regime and its key ally Russia have deliberately targeted main marketplaces in rebel-held towns in a blatant...

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing a raft of punitive economic sanctions against Turkey on Saturday, underlining the depth of the Kremlin's anger toward Ankara four days after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane. The decree, which entered into force immediately,...

Israeli border police shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed an officer in Jerusalem on Sunday, a police spokesman said, the latest attack in a two-month wave of violence. Near a main gate of Jerusalem's walled Old City, the Palestinian pulled out a knife and stabbed a border...

Moroccan director Mohammed Mouftakir's "L'Orchestre des Aveugles" (The Blind Orchestra) took the Tanit d'Or Saturday at the Carthage Film Festival, blighted earlier in the week by a suicide bombing in the Tunisian capital. The Tanit d'Argent was awarded to "The Endless River", by South...

“Even if no one remains, we will be there to defend our land,” says 30-year-old Turkmen Tahsin Kosar, determinedly – “It is our motherland; we cannot leave it.” Kosar is just one of many Syrian Turkmen who have fled to the Turkish border district of Yayladagi in Hatay from northwestern...

Following downing of a Russian warplane by Turkish jets on Nov. 24, Turkish citizens living in Russia have been the target of Russian authorities. The Turkish embassy in Moscow issued a call Saturday for Russian authorities to cease targeting Turkish citizens living in Russia. ...

Thousands gathered across the UK on Saturday in rallies organized by the Stop The War coalition to stand against British Prime Minister David Cameron's proposal for airstirkes in Syria. The main protest took place at  Downing Street in Central London.   Protestors...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia warplanes have renewed on Saturday its air strikes on aid vehicles in northern Syria near the Turkish border amid accusations by Damascus and Moscow claim it was carrying supplies to rebels. One driver has been killed and four others have been...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes have killed at least 19 people in Idlib and Daraa provinces, activists and monitoring group said Saturday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Bashar al-Assad air strikes on the rebel-held province Idlib have killed 7 civilians in Bennish town...