Syrian President Bashar Assad condemned Friday's attacks in Paris and said that such acts of terror were similar to what his people had faced in years of violent civil war. "What France suffered from savage terror is what the Syrian people have been enduring for over five years," the...
Diplomats continued talks in Vienna to resolve the Syrian crisis on Saturday morning despite the attacks in Paris that killed at least 128 people on Friday evening. France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius led the first session of talks, according to the New York Times. AFP later reported him...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Seven civilians were killed on Friday in an ambush set up by Syrian regime militia near the embattled region of al-Houla in central province of Homs during their try to enter food and fuel to their town, local reporter said. The victims have been killed near Kafranan village,...
Paris attacks death toll has risen to 127, police sources told AFP. At least 127 people were killed and and around 180 injured, 80 critical, in a series of terror attacks in Paris on Friday according to a provisional total, police sources said. Eight of the...
About 25,000 people are wounded each month in escalating warfare in Syria and it getting harder to deliver medical supplies for civilians trapped in areas held by Islamic State insurgents, the World Health Organization said on Friday. It said typhoid and diarrhea are on the rise due to the lack...
Paris (AFP) - At least 120 people were killed in a series of terror attacks in Paris on Friday according to a provisional total, a source close to the investigation said. Four of the suspected attackers are among the dead, including three who were inside the Bataclan concert hall...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S. led air strikes in Syria have inflicted "significant damage" to Islamic State's ability to fund itself, the Pentagon said on Friday. Recent strikes in an air operation dubbed "Tidal Wave II" have been concentrated on oil facilities in the Deir Ezzor region, which provide...
The death toll has risen to 140 in a series of attacks in Paris. About 100 people were killed in the Bataclan concert hall in central Paris and 40 others have died in other locations in and around Paris in a militant attack, an official at Paris City hall said. Gunmen and bombers attacked...
Two weeks after they jointly called for a political solution to Syria's civil war, foreign ministers and senior officials from Russia, the United States, Europe and the Middle East struggled on Friday to turn that idea into a more concrete plan. As those officials returned...
PARIS (AP) — The latest on shootings and explosions in Paris. (all times local): The officials were not authorized to be named because operations were ongoing. ___ 12:20 a.m. A French police official says at least 100 people have been killed inside a Paris concert hall where attackers...
Paris (AFP) - At least 39 people were killed in a series of simultaneous gun attacks across Paris on Friday, as well as explosions outside the national stadium where France was playing Germany in a football match. Police have said that at least 15 people were killed at the...
Austria announced Friday it would erect a 3.7-kilometre (2.3-mile) metal fence along its border with Slovenia, in a new blow to the EU's cherished open-border Schengen accord. The barrier, due to be completed in less than six weeks, will be the first fence...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many German media reports revealed that German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) has opened files for some refugees suspected they were involved in war crimes in Syria. Zaman Al Wasl checked files and found that "BKA" put signs against 10 files for...
The U.S. military is "reasonably certain" a U.S. drone strike killed the Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John," a British citizen who appeared in videos of militants beheading Western journalists and aid workers, a spokesman said on Friday. The militant, Mohammed Emwazi,...
The death toll from two blasts that hit the Lebanese capital Beirut have risen to 43 on Friday as condemnations began to pour in from around the world. The Lebanese military said two suicide bombers were behind the attack that happened Thursday, adding that a third bomber was found dead at the...
The Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, a Syrian opposition group, claimed that a Russian warplane targeted Idlib province’s Benin village using a white phosphorous bomb. Yasser al-Yousef, an activist in the movement, told Anadolu Agency late Thursday that the attack left a number of people...
The attack bore all the traits of Islamic State in Iraq. A small unit of militants, armed with Kalashnikov rifles and suicide belts, hit the Tripoli prison just before sunrise. Blasting though a wall, four fighters worked their way through the heavily guarded compound before firing a...
Syrian regime forces captured the village of Tel Hadya in the northern province of Aleppo on Friday, Reuters said, in the latest territorial gains reported against insurgents in the area. The reported advance brought pro-government forces closer to the main highway that links...
Kurdish forces entered the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar Friday after cutting it off from east and west in an offensive against ISIS militants that could provide critical momentum in efforts to defeat the extremist group. A Reuters correspondent saw hundreds of Kurdish peshmerga fighters...
The United States Thursday carried out an airstrike in Syria targeting the ISIS militant known as "Jihadi John," who participated in gruesome videos showing the killings of American and British hostages, officials said. One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the strike...
