Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Inmates of Homs Central Prison halted Tuesday Syrian police attempt to storm their dormitories to end a two-month strike, sources told Zaman Al Wasl. Two detainees confirmed in separate phone calls with Zaman Al Wasl that the regime security backed...

President Barack Obama Wednesday slammed American “hysteria” about the security threat posed by Syrian refugees as Republicans sought to freeze a program to resettle them in the wake of the Paris attacks. Seizing upon fears one of the attackers may have entered Europe posing as a Syrian...

 Israel has arrested six 1948 Palestinians on suspicion of planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS in a case sparked by a man’s paraglider journey, police said Wednesday. All in their 20s and from Jaljulia north of Tel Aviv, the six were charged with “collaborating with hostile foreign...

A woman suicide bomber blew herself up in a police raid on Wednesday that sources said had foiled a jihadi plan to hit Paris's business district, days after a wave of attacks killed 129 across the French capital. Police stormed an apartment in the Paris suburb of St. Denis...

Military chiefs briefing Vladimir Putin on operations in Syria showed him a map with a reference to a unit in the center of the country that matches a Russian army artillery unit, suggesting the Kremlin's involvement may be deeper than previously thought. Moscow, which is...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 338 people, including 69 children and 47 women, have been killed in three-week-old offensive on Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the Syrian capital, local monitoring group said in report issued Wednesday. The central department of statistics and documentation in the...

Suspected architect of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is dead, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing two intelligence officials. The Post did not provide details, including the intelligence officials' nationalities, and Reuters could not immediately confirm...

Iran has started cutting back on some nuclear technology, which could be reengineered to make nuclear weapons, in line with a deal with six world powers, a U.N. nuclear agency report said Wednesday. However, diplomats familiar with the report cautioned that the country is keeping thousands of...

A new report says Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic insurgents have become the world's deadliest extremist group, edging out the Islamic State group to which it is affiliated. The Global Terrorism Index says deaths attributed to Boko Haram increased by 317 percent in 2014 to 6,644 compared...

An ISIS militant was killed and 21 people were detained while trying to cross illegally the border from Syria to Turkey, the Turkish army said Wednesday. The incident took place in Turkey's Kilis province, a region where U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday said the United States and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Number of Syrian refugees, including 3 children, were wounded in Lebanese army air strike on their camp in the border town of Arsal, medical source told Zaman Al Wasl on Wednesday. Medics say a child girl is in critical condition. Lebanese army and Iran-proxy Hezbollah...

Islamic State's official magazine carried a photo on Wednesday of a Schweppes drink it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last month, killing all 224 people on board. The photo showed a can of Schweppes Gold...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- French and Russian air strikes in northern Syria have killed at least 33 jihadists with the Islamic State group in the last 72 hours, AFP said on Wednesday. Dozens of IS fighters were also wounded in the raids on weapons depots, barracks and checkpoints in the jihadists' de...

Two Air France flights bound for Paris from the United States were diverted for several hours on Tuesday following anonymous bomb threats, and more than 700 passengers and crew were safely taken off the planes, officials said. Flight 65, an Airbus A-380 that departed from Los...

Gunfire and explosions shook the Paris suburb of St Denis early on Wednesday as French police surrounded a building where a Belgian Islamist militant suspected of masterminding last week's attacks in the French capital was believed to be holed up. Two assailants were killed,...

A Belgian fugitive suspected of taking part in the Paris attacks was stopped three times by French police while being driven back to Brussels the following morning but was allowed to carry on his way, a defense lawyer said on Tuesday. As the manhunt continued for Salah Abdeslam,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Key rebel group, The Army of Conquest, declared Tuesday general mobilization, calling on all rebel factions to boost coordination to deter attacks of Syrian regime army and its Russian and Iranian allies. Conquest Army, also known as Fatah Army, said all jihadi groups should...

n">U.S. stocks forfeited gains on Tuesday after a soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was called off over fears of a bombing. All three major U.S. indexes had ventured into positive territory following upbeat earnings reports from Wal-Mart ( WMT.N ) and Home...

By Emad Mostaque Daesh, the Arabic acronym for Islamic State, can be viewed as the most disruptive start-up ever devised. It uses modern technology to spread its message, radicalizing people in a matter of weeks rather than months or years. It also enables its recruits and acolytes to...

German police said they arrested two more people on Tuesday near the western city of Aachen in an operation linked to the attacks last Friday in Paris, after arresting two women and one man earlier in the day. In a statement, the police gave no further details about the latest...