Turkey and its partners in the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS called on Russia Friday to cease its attacks on the Syrian opposition and focus on fighting militants, expressing "deep concern" over Moscow's air strikes. In a joint statement with the United States, Britain, France, Germany and...

Russian airstrikes in Syria will last for three to four months and will intensify, a senior Russian lawmaker said Friday as President Vladimir Putin was due in Paris for talks. "There is always a risk of getting bogged down but in Moscow they're talking about three to four months of...

  ( Zaman Al Wasl Leaks )- Rustom Ghazali, who has not heard of this resonant name inside and outside Syria. Who was he ignorant of in Lebanon and he is the actual ruler of it? Who could have neglected the mention of al-Ghazali when talking about the assassination of Rafik Hariri and...

 The Taliban claimed Friday to have shot down a U.S. military transport plane in eastern Afghanistan in a crash that killed 11 people, as the battle for Kunduz raged after the emboldened militants briefly seized the city. The Taliban's stunning success in Kunduz, their biggest tactical...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Francois Hollande were gearing up for talks on the Syrian conflict on Friday, as tensions rose after Moscow unleashed a fresh wave of bombing over Syrian soil. Russia says its airstrikes are against the Islamic State group (IS), and...

Syrian regime's political security issued an order of arrest in 2013 against Ayman Asfari, a Syrian-British billionaire, over claims of funding Syrian opposition, the leaked Syrian intelligence archive obtained by Zaman Al Wasl has revealed. The same warrant said Asfari should also be...

Islamic State militants attacked forces guarding one of Libya's main oil ports on Thursday with a gun assault and an attempted car bomb in an escalation of their campaign in the North African state, a local security official said. Islamic State has gained ground in Libya where...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his annual United Nations address on Thursday to launch an all-out assault on the historic nuclear deal with Iran, warning that his country would never let the Islamic Republic join the atomic weapons club. Speaking at the yearly...

In the notoriously fluid Syrian conflict, a host of rebel groups are fighting the government and competing for resources, forming and dissolving tactical alliances but rarely making major gains. Against this fractured backdrop, though, a new name — the Army of Conquest — has emerged this...

The United States and its allies on Wednesday targeted Islamic State with one air strike in Syria and another 21 in Iraq, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the operation said. In a statement released on Thursday, the task force said one strike near Mar'a, Syria destroyed two...

Russia's air strikes in Syria are in part designed to extract concessions from the West over Ukraine by making Moscow a key player in any attempts by world powers to hammer out a post-conflict settlement in Damascus, some Western officials believe. While the Syrian capital lies...

Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of  Bashar al-Assad's government, Lebanese sources said on Thursday, a further sign of the rapid internationalization of a civil war in which every major country in the region has a...

 U.N. refugee agency UNHCR expects 1.4 million refugees to flee to Europe via the Mediterranean this year and next, it said in a revised appeal seen by Reuters Thursday, a sharp rise from initial estimates of 850,000. "UNHCR is planning for up to 700,000 people seeking safety and...

Iran's armed forces should increase their preparedness to deter and defend against an attack by foreign enemies, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Thursday. "The armed forces must urgently increase their readiness, so that the enemy dare not think of attacking," Khamenei was...

The commander of the YPG Syrian Kurdish militia said the country's civil war could continue for 10 years, in an interview published Thursday by monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Sipan Hemo, whose group has seized wide areas of territory from ISIS in northeast Syria this...

Israel says it has indicted seven Arab citizens on suspicion of setting up an ISIS cell in the country and planning to attack police and army bases. Spokeswoman Luba Samri said on Thursday that the seven - all men in their 20s and 30s - are affiliated with ISIS group's ideology. She said they...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Zaman Al Wasl (ALEPPO)- The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) on Wednesday morning has breached the truce held with rebels  in Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo city, targeting the bystanders on the Castello road by sniper shots that left two...

World trade will grow by 2.8 percent this year and could fall back further by a U.S. interest rate rise, China’s economic slowdown or Europe’s refugee crisis, the World Trade Organization said Wednesday. The forecast, revised down from a 3.3 percent forecast made in April, means 2015 will be the...

 A migrant woman and a child drowned off the Greek island of Lesbos after their boat sank, police said Wednesday, adding 45 other passengers had been rescued. The Greek harbor police did not give the victims’ ages or nationalities and it was not clear if the two were related. According to...

Kurdish forces said they drove Islamic State militants out of villages near the oil city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq on Wednesday, in an offensive backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition. The assault consolidated their control over Kirkuk and brought the peshmerga, the...