Russia has killed 403 civilians, among them 97 children, during its air strikes in Syria, according to figures from a monitoring group. The Russian president Vladimir Putin has stepped up his country's air campaign in Syria in recent weeks, targeting anti-government rebels as well Islamist...

(Zaman Al Wasl- Anadolu Agency))- Around 1,700 Syrian Turkmen have arrived in southern Turkey over the last three days, a local governor said Sunday, as they flee regime attacks backed by Russian airstrikes. Hatay province Governor Ercan Topaca said 28 injured civilians from the Bayir Bucak...

A fireman of Algerian origin, Faisal helped evacuate thousands from the Stade de France during the Paris attacks, guiding panicked football fans to safety as suicide bombers blew themselves up outside. Now he fears the November 13 massacre across the French capital will deepen...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- As winter gets harder, the picture is not complete without a fireplace. But for Syrian refugees, the fireplace is more than a source for warming; it turns up to become the cooker, bathroom heater, clothes' drier, and an oven to bake bread. “the...

A bomb placed on a motorcycle exploded on Sunday in a Kurdish-held Syrian town along the Turkish border, killing at least three people and wounding 20 others, a monitoring group said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a huge blast was heard when the...

Iraq said it was suspending flights between Baghdad and the northern cities of Erbil and Sulaimaniya for two days starting on Monday due to military traffic from Russia's air campaign in neighboring Syria. Iraq's civil aviation authority said in a statement the decision was...

(The Guardian)- The authors of this article are the current and the three former presidents of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces Terror has returned to the streets of Paris. So, too, has the realisation that international efforts to defeat terrorism...

A gunshot was fired at the car of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas on Sunday evening, a spokesman for his political party said. The rear window of Demirtas's bullet-proof car was hit by a bullet as it was driving in the city of Diyarbakir in the largely Kurdish...

Syrian government troops are advancing on "nearly every front" thanks to Russian air strikes that began in September, President Bashar Assad said in an interview with Chinese television released Sunday. The embattled president also said he favored new peace talks to be hosted in Moscow, but...

 The United States and its allies conducted 16 strikes against ISIS in Iraq and nine in Syria Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement. Five of the Iraq strikes hit around Ramadi, destroying weapons, tactical units and fighting positions, the Combined Joint Task...

  Russia feels increasingly under threat from developments in the Middle East and appears to be serious about cooperating with western countries to resolve the war in Syria, Germany's foreign minister said Sunday. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose Social Democrats (SPD) are traditionally...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 children have been killed and dozens wounded Sunday morning in Syrian regime's mortar rounds that hit their school in rebel-held city of Douma, near Damascus, The Revolution Coordination Committees said. The embattled city of Douma, 10 km (7 miles) northeast the...

Paris (AFP) - French jets will be able to launch air strikes on Islamic State targets from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean from Monday, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. "It will be operational from tomorrow," Le Drian told Europe 1 radio on Sunday, nine...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) (Zaman Al Wasl)- Statistics showed that Bashar al-Assad's war on Syrian people has caused permanent disability for about 300 thousand Syrians, half of them children under 16 years old. Samira Yousuf, 4-year-old girl from Taldo, the biggest town in al Hola city...

President Barack Obama says Russia needs to make a strategic decision to go after the Islamic State group, not the moderate opposition forces trying to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad. He says initial military operations by Russia did not add to efforts to deter IS, and in some ways,...

Around 15 people were injured overnight when a grenade was thrown during a festival in the Southern Philippines, according to police and military -- the fifth bombing incident in Central Mindanao in just two weeks. The explosion occurred in the provincial capital of Sultan Kudarat as it...

The Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee this weekend announced that Moscow had approved the sale of Russian arms to the war-torn country. Notably, the move comes one month after the Iraqi government gave Russia the green light to target convoys sent into Iraqi territory from...

A Turkish Airlines flight traveling from New York to Istanbul has been diverted to the Canadian east coast city of Halifax due to a "bomb threat", authorities said. Police in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia said on Twitter that the flight TK2 landed safely at Halifax Stanfield...

At least 700 Palestinian children between the ages of 11 and 17 have been arrested by the Israeli army this year, with more than half still languishing in Israeli prisons. “The Israeli army has detained 700 Palestinian children and minors from the occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank...

Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq Istanbul (Zaman Al Wasl)- The bright side Syrian refugee crisis has showed can be the overwhelming solidarity of human rights advocates, intellectuals, artists and average people in many European states, Syrian migrants voiced admiration. Mattia Campo...