(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Al Wasl has obtained the criminal record (Bellow) of the Syrian terrorist who was arrested in Riyadh by Saudi Arabia on Saturday for allegedly manufacturing bombs in the kingdom. Yasser Mohammed Shafiq al-Barazi, 31, who was born in Hama city, has been...

Germany on Saturday celebrated 25 years since its joyful reunification, with its leaders urging the nation to muster the same strength and solidarity to face a record refugee influx. The silver anniversary of the day communist East Germany and the capitalist West reunited as one country comes...

Saudi authorities say they've arrested a Syrian man and a Filipina for allegedly manufacturing bombs in the kingdom, AP said. The official Saudi Press Agency reported Saturday that the two were arrested in Riyadh. It said the Filipina sewed explosive belts for the Syrian and that bombs...

A U.N. plan towards ending the civil war in Syria would not work in its current form, Syria's western-backed opposition and rebel groups said in a rare show of unity on Saturday, a day after the government said it was ready to take part in the initiative. In July, U.N. special envoy to Syria...

Ten Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire in the West Bank on Saturday during a raid by troops hunting the murderers of a Jewish settler couple, Palestinian police and medical sources said. Palestinians protesting against the raid in the territory's main northern city of Nablus hurled...

The U.S. military on Saturday acknowledged it may have bombed a hospital run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz in an air strike that killed at least nine people and wounded 37. The incident could renew concerns about the use of U.S. air...

The Bassel al-Assad Airbase in Syria’s northwestern Lattakia province -- believed to host 32 planes, 16 helicopters, nine tanks, two land-to-air missile defense systems and a 2,000-strong staff of Russian officers -- represents Russia’s most significant military asset in Syria. Russia is now...

Six months of violence in Yemen has left at least 505 children dead, 702 injured and more than 1.7 million at risk of malnutrition, the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, said on Friday. "Across the country, nearly 10 million children -- 80 per cent of the country’s under-18 population --...

Russia's Air Force made over 20 flights in Syria in the past 24 hours and targeted nine Islamic State objects, Russian news agencies cited a Defense Ministry official as saying on Saturday. The Defense Ministry official, Igor Konashenkov, said Su-34 and Su-24M aircraft took part in...

Only one in 20 Russian air strikes in Syria are aimed at Islamic State targets, Britain's defense secretary said on Saturday, warning that Vladimir Putin was instead killing civilians to shore up President Bashar al-Assad. Russia bombed Syria for a third straight day on Friday,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- An entry ban against Naguib Sawiris, an Egyptian tycoon and politician, was issued by Syrian General Intelligence in 2012 (No:75382), the leaked intelligence archive obtained by Zaman Al Wasl has revealed. Zaman Al Wasl has obtained about 1,700,000 leaked documents and warrants...

A Syrian Christian family targeted by a September bomb attack in Damascus flew into Paris on Friday to start a new life, roughly a year after they requested entry visas from the French authorities. Amid cackles of joy and relief, 15 family members embraced each other and the...

The spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood attended a ceremony organized by Saudi Arabia in Qatar on Friday, signaling an easing of Riyadh's hostility toward the Islamist movement. Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, a Qatar-based cleric whose fiery sermons have strained ties with...

President Barack Obama on Friday vehemently rejected Russia's military actions in Syria as self-defeating and dismissed the idea that Moscow was strengthening its hand in the region. He vowed not to let the conflict become a U.S.-Russia "proxy war." At a White House news conference,...

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem on Friday questioned the value of political negotiations and said airstrikes against militants in his country are useless if they are not coordinated with his government. "Terrorism cannot be fought only from the air, and all of the previous operations...

Glasgow will become the first British city to accept Syrian refugees since the current crisis began with dozens set to arrive before Christmas. The city council has made an agreement with the Home Office to identify 63 people from refugee camps in Lebanon and Iraq. Families are expected to...

More than 100 people killed on Friday in double air strikes on northern city of Aleppo by Syrian regime and key ally Russia, activists said amid claims by state-run media that the deadly aerial attacks have targeted ISIS strongholds. Russian warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes...

Russia bombed Syria for a third day on Friday, mainly hitting areas held by rival insurgent groups rather than ISIS fighters it said it was targeting and drawing an increasingly angry response from the West. The U.S.-led coalition that is waging its own air war against ISIS called on the...

 ISIS attacked Syrian government-held areas in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor and an air base south of the city on Friday, Reuters said. Regime warplanes bombarded another area of the city and around the air base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after pro-Damascus...

Russian warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes since Thursday night in northwestern and western Syria, a Syrian military source and state TV said on Friday. The source said the 18 air strikes were in the provinces of Idlib, Hama and Aleppo and were against Islamic State...