Fatah Army rebels have renewed attacks on two Shi'ite villages in northern province of Idlib, pressing advances as a ceasefire broke down the day before. Activists said the ongoing clashes that erupted on Sunday are taking place in al-Sawaghiya district near of Kefraya and al-Foua villages...

Two British reporters working for Vice News who were detained last week covering unrest in Kurdish-majority southeast Turkey were being questioned by prosecutors Monday. Local judicial officials said the prosecutors were questioning the reporters for the New York-based news website in the...

A boat carrying migrants sank off Libya's Mediterranean coast, killing at least 37 people, a local official said on Sunday, the second such fatal accident within days. "We had reports this morning that there are seven bodies of illegal migrants that sank off Khoms (east of...

Four Libyan soldiers were killed and six wounded in fresh fighting with Islamist groups in the eastern city of Benghazi on Sunday, medics and military officials said. Forces loyal to Libya's internationally recognised government have been fighting Islamist groups in the...

A Revolutionary Court in Iran has sentenced two people to 10 years each in jail on charges of spying for the United States and Israel, the judiciary spokesman said on Sunday without naming those convicted. "These two people were sentenced to 10 years in jail by the Revolutionary...

European Union ministers were summoned on Sunday to meet in two weeks' time to seek urgent solutions to a migration crisis unprecedented in the bloc's history, as the mounting death toll on land and sea forced governments to respond. Luxembourg, which holds the rotating EU...

One of the most important goals of the joint air campaign against Daesh, as part of a deal between Turkey and the U.S., is to push the terror group away from Turkey's border with Syria. The creation of a safety zone in northern  Syria will give refugees fleeing the fighting...

At least 13 people, including 6 children, have been killed on Sunday in Syrian regime air strikes on Eastern Ghouta Suburbs near Damascus, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 7 people, including 3 children, have been killed in missile attack on Saqba town in the...

( Pappas Post )- Sandra Tsiligeridu and a group of friends were returning from an excursion to a tiny island called Pserimos, near Kos when a man was spotted in the water. Thinking he was a diver, the group waved and turned the steering of the boat to avoid him. But Sandra noticed the man was in...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The Qatari initiative to support and assist the Syrian farmers by offering $15 million to the National Coalition to facilitate buying the Syrian wheat, unveil the greediness and irresponsibility toward the farmers and many workers with the...

 The Islamic State militant group has detained 230 Iraqis over the last two days for organizing anti-Daesh protests in Iraq’s western Anbar province, a provincial official said Sunday. “Thirty people were detained by the terrorist group on Sunday in the western town of Al-Rutba...

A leading member of Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Sunday said his movement had not been invited to attend next month’s scheduled meeting of the Palestinian National Council (PNC). “This is a coup against legitimacy represented by Hamas, which holds the most seats in the Palestinian...

 Massive demonstrations in Beirut ended Saturday evening with protesters giving the government a three-day deadline for bringing corrupt officials to account, ending months of political paralysis and resolving a weeks-long sanitation crisis. Initially, dozens of protesters had refused...

(The Guardian)- They tried the shores of Libya, the islands of Greece, and the plains of the Balkans. Now it has emerged that Syrians fleeing civil war have found another route to the safety of Europe: the Arctic Circle. Dozens of Syrians have trekked to the far north of Russia this year in an...

Turkey marked the anniversary of the decisive battle in the War of Independence on Sunday. Victory Day, which commemorates the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922 against Greek forces, saw President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, senior officials and high-ranking military staff lay a wreath at Anitkabir,...

 A child and a police officer were killed in two separate attacks in Diyarbakir province in southeast Turkey Sunday following the breakdown of a cease-fire between the government and Kurdish militants, security sources said. Fighting between the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)...

Syria's official news agency SANA says a mortar round has hit an upscale central Damascus neighborhood, killing a child and wounding four people. It is not uncommon for Damascus to be shelled. Sunday's attack targeted the posh neighborhood of Abu Rummaneh, which houses hotels and several...

A suicide bomber riding a motorbike on Sunday blew up himself in Nusra Front's base in northern province of Idlib, killing 4 people and wounding 13 others. Activists told Zaman al-Wasl that the bomber had targeted 'Justic House' of al-Qaeda's Syria wing in Salqin town. one Nusra fighter was...

Germany and a handful of other European Union states cannot go on absorbing a disproportionate share of refugees arriving in the bloc and other members must do more, a government spokesman said Sunday. Germany expects the number of asylum seekers it receives to quadruple to about...

(By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- Osmanbey's Market is considered the largest and most important commercial centre in Istanbul, where shops of wholesale and retail gather in an area famous of trading clothes, finest fabrics and Turkish threads. The market...