The United States is cutting economic aid for the Palestinian Authority, partly because of "unhelpful actions" by the Palestinians, a U.S. diplomat said on Saturday. News site al-Monitor earlier said the U.S. State Department intends to reduce aid for the West Bank and Gaza in fiscal 2016 from...

An Arab Israeli has crossed into Syria using a paraglider, the army said Sunday, with the apparent goal of joining rebel fighters there. Late Saturday afternoon "a surveillance post identified an Israeli civilian entering Syrian territory using a paraglider," an army statement read. "The...

Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia on Saturday threatened to close their borders if EU countries to the north stop accepting migrants, as European leaders prepare for emergency talks on the continent's worst refugee crisis since World War II. Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said the...

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman met with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry as he arrived in Riyadh on Saturday for talks on recent developments in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the Syrian war, the Saudi Press Agency reported. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel...

  Death toll of Syrian regime troops fighting ISIS in northern Aleppo province has reached 60, well-informed source told Zaman al Wasl Saturday. Fighters of the ultra-hardline Islamic State group took control of a section of road southeast of Aleppo on Friday, threatening the regime army's...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Israel has agreed on steps to calm tensions over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque, at the centre of Palestinian unrest, including 24-hour security cameras. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was to announce details of the measures...

Gunmen shot dead an Islamist candidate in Egypt's parliamentary elections in North Sinai on Saturday, officials said, where jihadists are waging an insurgency against the government. Mostafa Abdel Rahman, a candidate for ultraconservative Salafist Al-Nur party which is seen as...

 Syria's Western-backed opposition on Saturday rejected a Russian offer to assist them against ISIS and dismissed Moscow's call for new elections. "Russia is bombing the Free Syrian Army and now it wants to cooperate with us, while it remains committed to Assad? We don't understand...

The United Nations said Saturday it had mistakenly sent hundreds of boxes of expired biscuits to besieged civilians in rebel-held areas near Damascus as part of a relief convoy earlier this month. A total of 320 out of 650 boxes of high energy biscuits sent to Zabadani and Madaya on Oct. 18...

Syrian regime army backed by National Defense militia (NDF)l has aunched a major assault early Saturday on Sansil and Jawalak frontlines north of Homs city. A fierce fighting reported on the strategic districts in the northern countryside of Homs, activists told Zaman al Wasl. The northern...

Russia's air force in Syria is ready to support the Free Syrian Army, the main Western-backed opposition group battling Bashar al-Assad, in its fight against Islamic State, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday. "We are ready to also support patriotic opposition, including...

Huge crowds of black-clad Shiite faithful massed in the Iraqi city of Karbala Saturday, crying and beating their chests to commemorate the prophet's grandson, who died in the seventh century. The holy day of Ashura was marred by attacks in Pakistan and Bangladesh but got under...

(Writing by Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) “Tow” rockets, has been under spotlight recently, regime-loyal or opposition people follow news about their effects and destruction of regime’s tanks and other military vehicles. Zaman Al Wasl met Sohail, number one  shooter of TOW...

A series of blasts targeting Shia Muslims in Dhaka killed at least one person and wounded dozens more early on Saturday as they gathered for a procession in the old part of the Bangladesh capital to mark the holy day of Ashura, police said. Police cordoned off the area and were...

On Oct. 18, Egypt began the first phase of parliamentary elections, but many voters shunned the balloting and turnout is estimated at a measly 15 percent . Most Egyptians seem to have decided that the election results are a foregone conclusion, with a new parliament that will kowtow to...

Salih Muslim, the president of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), an armed group linked to PKK, is wanted by Syrian regime according to the leaked Intelligence archive obtained by Zaman al-Wasl. Muslim's warrant is one of 1,700,000 leaked documents and warrants issued by Syrian regime's...

Zaina Erhaim, the Syrian recipient of the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism, said Thursday she hopes her work can convey "the human side" of the horrific conflict. "I'm not a war zone reporter. I wouldn't be there if it was not my home country," she said ahead of...

Turkey is preparing for tens of thousands more refugees from Syria as government forces and Russian warplanes pound opposition-held areas, and officials said many would try illegally to get to Europe. Syrian government troops and their allies, backed by Russian jets, launched an...

Islamic State fighters took control of a section of road southeast of Aleppo on Friday, threatening the Syrian army's only supply route into the city, a group that monitors the civil war said. Islamic State captured parts of a road running between the towns of Khanaser and...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he expects new talks on Syria to begin as soon as next week, and did not rule out participation by Iran, President Bashar al-Assad's closest ally, which has been kept away from past peace conferences. Along with counterparts from...