Al Jabha Al Shamiya, coalition of several rebel groups, has freed a British woman and her five children who were kidnapped in the country, delivering them to British embassy through an American mediator, source in the group's media office told Zaman al-Wasl. The statement by 'The...

The European Union is groping for ways to persuade Turkey to do more to keep Syrian refugees on its territory and stop them flooding into Europe, amid deep mutual suspicion between Brussels and Ankara. As a bitterly divided EU struggles to cope with hundreds of thousands of people...

Kurdistan reasserted its right to export oil independently to the United States and other countries on Tuesday despite a court ruling in favor of the Iraqi federal government, which has sought to block crude sales from the autonomous region. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit...

Two ministers from Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) resigned from the interim government on Tuesday in a sign of rising tensions with the ruling AK Party after the collapse of a truce between Kurdish fighters and the military. President Tayyip Erdogan has stepped up...

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi landed in Yemen's Aden on Tuesday, airport sources said, returning to the southern port city for the first time since he escaped to Saudi Arabia as Houthi fighters closed in six months ago. His return is the most concrete sign yet that a military...

A car bomb exploded Tuesday in the central city of Homs, killing at least one person and wounding 12 others in a neighborhood seen as a home of loyalists of the Bashar Assad. The rigged vehicle exploded among residential buildings in al-Zahra neighborhood, an area dominated by Alawites, the...

Warring parties have agreed to extend ceasefires in two Shi'ite Muslim towns in northwestern Syria and another settlement near the Lebanese border until a wider deal is reached, Reuters said on Tuesday. Pro-regime militia backed by Shi'ite Hezbollah have been defending the two towns -...

When an explosion killed almost all of its leaders in a single blow last year, many thought it was the end for Ahrar al-Sham, a powerful Syrian insurgent group founded by members loyal to al Qaeda. But the group immediately re-emerged stronger. It replaced its leader and chose new...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Syrian people trying to cross the sea to Europe have started taking cautions to protect them during their deadly trip in sea to from Turkey to Europe.  In Aksaray area in Istanbul, Zaman al-Wasl met Mustafa, a young man from...

Israel and Russia will coordinate their military actions over Syria to avoid accidentally trading fire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. "My objective was to prevent misunderstandings between IDF (Israel...

Russia has deployed 28 combat planes in Syria, U.S. officials said Monday, confirming the latest move in Moscow's increasing military presence in the war-torn nation. "There are 28 fighter and bomber aircraft" at an airfield in the western Syrian province of Latakia, one of the officials...

 Russia has started flying surveillance missions with drone aircraft in Syria, two U.S. officials said Monday, in what appeared to be Moscow's first military air operations in Syria since staging a rapid buildup at an airfield there. The U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Nearly 25,000 students in the northern countryside of Homs city have joined schools on 13- September, 90% of them in schools  regime-controlled areas, while the rest controlled by the opposition's interim government and other charity associations. ...

 An Egypt-based affiliate of ISIS has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in the capital, Cairo, which wounded two people. The claim was reported late Sunday by SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S.-based group that monitors militant websites. The explosion happened near a building...

A new march by migrants trying to reach Europe overland from Turkey was blocked by police outside Istanbul Monday. Around 700 mostly Syrian men, women and children from a group that had been blocked for the past week at Istanbul's main bus station set out overnight on foot for the...

Rebels who have inflicted big losses on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad say Russia's intervention in support of its ally will only lead to an escalation of the war and may encourage the rebels' Gulf Arab backers to pour in more military aid. Russia's deployment is prompting a...

Syrian regime warplanes attacked a busy market in a rebel-held neighborhood of northern city of Aleppo, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 60, activists said. The deadly strike on the market in al-Shaar neighborhood on Monday occurred during the rush hours before Eid al-Adha that...

A jubilant Alexis Tsipras vowed to continue fighting for his country's pride and to quickly form a coalition government after his left-wing Syriza party comfortably won Greece's third national vote this year on Sunday. The result was a resounding success for Tsipras' high-risk gamble...

Among the tens of thousands fleeing war and despair in the Middle East, one group feels a special relief in reaching Europe: those who have escaped areas ruled by Islamic State extremists and the harsh scrutiny of their religious police. These refugees tell of how a Western-style...

Seventy-five Syrian rebels trained to fight jihadists under a beleaguered US programme have crossed from Turkey into northern Syria, a US-backed rebel faction and a monitoring group said Sunday. "Seventy-five new fighters trained in a camp near the Turkish capital entered Aleppo province...