(Zaman Al Wasl)-  At least 10 civilians, mostly children, have been killed in suspected Russian air strikes on southern city of Daraa, activists said Saturday. Syrian regime air force backed by Russian warplanes has extended its brutal aerial campaign on rebel-held province of Daraa....

Four people were wounded in a stabbing attack in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat on Saturday in what police said bore the hallmarks of previous stabbings by Palestinians. The attack took place shortly after an announcement in Washington that U.S. Secretary of State John...

A video released Friday appears to show Greek coast guards puncturing a dinghy boat with a sharp object earlier in November in the Aegean Sea. Video footage released by Turkey's Office of Public Diplomacy on Friday shows a sea vessel numbered LS-060, belonging to the Greek coast guard,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A new barrage of Russian air strikes hit Syrian Turkmen strongholds in coastal Latakia province, Revolution Coordination Committees said on Saturday, a day after Turkey had summoned Russia's ambassador to Ankara over the recent bombing of Turkmen villages. Syrian regime...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 30 civilians have been killed across the eastern Deir Ezzor province as Syrian regime warplanes backed by Russian jets intensify aerial campaign on ISIS-held territory, local activists said Saturday. The devastating air strikes rocked towns of al Mayadin, Al Bukamal,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebel group fighting ISIS in northern province of Aleppo has recaptured two border villages with Turkey from the radical group, commander said on Saturday. Al Shamiya Front fighters have recaptured villages of Harajleh and Dalha on the Turkish border, inflicting heavy...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Spokesman of Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces fighting ISIS in northern Syria said his Western-backed group has achieved 70% of its targets in nearly one month campaign. Col. Talal Ali Sello, in statement to Zaman Al Wasl, said his alliance is...

Turkish warplanes struck Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant targets in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey on Friday night, the latest raids in a military campaign against the rebel group. The Turkish army said it hit 23 PKK targets, including shelters and supply points,...

 (Agencies- The Daily Star)- ISIS has claimed an attack at a Shiite mosque south of the Iraqi capital that officials said killed at least ten people Friday. ISIS, in a statement, said a suicide bomber named as Abu Hussein al-Ansari carried out the attack inside the mosque, while security...

British Prime Minister David Cameron's bid to start air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria could be bolstered by a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted on Friday calling on able states to fight the militants, said Britain's U.N envoy. "It's a call to action to...

Turkish police have detained a Belgian man of Moroccan origin on suspicion that he scouted out the target sites for Islamic State in attacks that killed 129 people in Paris a week ago, the Dogan news agency said on Saturday. Ahmet Dahmani, 26, was detained at a luxury hotel in the...

Six tourists and their pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed into a heavily crevassed glacier in New Zealand during bad weather Saturday, police said. The sightseeing helicopter plunged into the Fox Glacier, a popular tourist site on the west coast of the South Island, with weather...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Syrian regime air force extended Friday its fierce aerial campaign on southern province of Daraa, targeting eastern countryside, activists said. The air strikes stormed towns of  Jasem, Tel al Jumoua' and al Nouaima. Also, an artillery shelling reported from...

Turkey has summoned Russia's ambassador to Ankara over the recent bombing of Turkmen villages in Syria, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Friday. Syrian regime forces backed by Russian air forces launched a ground offensive on the predominantly Turkmen villages in Bayir Bucak area in...

Syrian regime forces have been reported as expanding their ground operations on Thursday in the Bayırbucak Turkmen area of the rural town of Latakia. Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported local sources as saying that regime forces, with the support of Russian air strikes, conducted...

Paris (AFP) - Two of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up near the Stade de France stadium in the Paris attacks a week ago had passed through Greece posing as migrants fleeing the Syrian war, prosecutors said Friday. It was already known that one of the men had been...

 Russia's air force flew 394 sorties and hit 731 targets in Syria in the last three days, Interfax news agency cited the head of the Russian air group in Syria as saying Friday. He said the Russian military air fleet in Syria was reinforced by 8 Su-34 bombers and a unit of Sy-27SM3 jet...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes have renewed in the northern province of Hasaka between Islamic State and Kurdish PYD forces, media activists said on Friday, reporting death of 8 militants from both sides.  Hasaka Media Center said PYD fighters backed by U.S.-led air...

Malian special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen took 170 people including many foreigners hostage in the capital of the former French colony, which has been battling rebels allied to al Qaeda for several years. "They've penetrated inside the hotel....

(Today Zaman)- Turkey's top diplomat has sought to find a way to overcome the difference between Turkey and the US on the two sides' views of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing the People's Protection Units (YPG) in the fight against the terrorist Islamic State in...