The spokesman of Egypt's armed forces says a military aircraft crashed near the border with Libya because of a technical failure while on a counterterrorism mission, killing four crew members and wounding two. Brig. Gen. Mohamed Samir says on his Facebook page that the aircraft crashed Thursday...
Syria's main opposition group Thursday insisted President Bashar Assad must go as it rejected calls to join forces against ISIS jihadis ahead of a meeting with Russia's foreign minister. The head of Syria's National Coalition Khaled Khoja is in Moscow for talks with top diplomat Sergei Lavrov...
Two Israeli Arabs have been arrested after an unsuccessful bid to join the ranks of ISIS by passing through Turkey to Syria, security and judicial sources said Thursday. Adnan Salameh, from Ramleh near Tel Aviv, was arrested at that city's Ben Gurion airport on July 28 after having been...
U.S.-led forces conducted 12 airstrikes against ISIS in Syria on Wednesday and also targeted the group with 12 strikes in Iraq, the U.S. military said Thursday. Strikes in Syria were concentrated near Hassakeh, where five hit tactical units and destroyed fighting positions and a vehicle, the...
(Reporting by Soufian Jbawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Tens of rebels in Hafir Alfoka town in the western region of Qalamoun have handed themselves to the Syrian regime as large part of them have joined paramilitary defense forces. a move came to escape the severe siege and warning of...
Syrian rebels on Thursday have taken a ground from Islamic State in northern countryside of Aleppo near the Turkish border as clashes still underway, rebel source said. The moderate Islamist groups have seized al-Kherba village, taking advantage from Turkish support to have an ISIS-free zone on...
At least two people were killed when rockets hit Latakia on Thursday, state media said, in a rare attack on the Syrian coastal city that is a bastion of President Bashar al-Assad. The city has largely been spared the violence of the more than four-year Syrian civil war, which...
Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 44 people, including at least a dozen fire fighters, officials and state media said on Thursday. At least 520 people were injured,...
Kurdish militants launched attacks on military outposts in eastern Turkey overnight and seven of their fighters were killed in ensuing clashes with security forces, the Turkish armed forces said on Thursday. The attacks are the latest in a recent surge of violence between Turkish...
Turkish border guards, and in their effort to combat Islamic State and the historic Kurdish enemy PKK, have carried out a series of breaches and crimes against Syrian displaced who are trying to escape fight between conflicting parties in northern Syria. Number of Syrian displaced, including...
On the day U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a historic nuclear agreement last month, Hadi Partovi threw an impromptu party in his backyard outside Seattle, setting in motion a rare expression of solidarity among the country's most prominent Iranian-Americans. Partovi, who has invested...
Syrian rebels on Wednesday have killed 15 army soldiers and wounded dozens in counter attack on their barrack in northern city of Aleppo, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl. Rajab Abu Yousef, senior commander in al-Shamiya Front, said rebels had rocked army bases in the neighborhoods of...
Syria's warring parties declared a 48-hour ceasefire in two frontline areas on Wednesday after unprecedented mediation from Turkey and Iran, signaling a new approach by some of the main regional backers of the opposing sides. The ceasefire halted fighting between insurgents on the...
Iraq's prime minister accused corrupt politicians on Wednesday of plotting to sabotage his plan for sweeping reforms of the governing system, and warned leaders of powerful Shi'ite militias not to use their armed followers for political ends. A year in office, Haider al-Abadi...
Syria's paramilitary National Defense Forces have killed 23 displaced people in northern countryside of Hama on Tuesday, Revolution Local Coordinations said. The victims who fled war in the next-door province of Homs were killed in Om al-Khazir village. The Coordinations said they were heading...
At least 45 people have been killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus in Syrian regime air strikes, activists and monitoring groups said on Wednesday. Activists said regime warplanes have carried out 5 raids on Douma, Saqba and Hamouriya towns east of Damascus, leaving dozens...
A 48-hour ceasefire was declared on Wednesday to halt fighting between Syrian insurgents and the army and its Lebanese militant Hezbollah ally in the rebel-held town of Zabadani and two Shi'ite Muslim villages in Idlib province. The United Nations envoy for Syria said last month...
A Syrian military source said on Tuesday the army had retreated to new defensive lines in a region of vital strategic importance to President Bashar al-Assad, seeking to avoid losses at the hands of advancing rebels. The insurgent advance into the Sahl al-Ghab plain in...
The U.S. State Department Tuesday denied it has agreed to a “safe zone” in northern Syria, after broadcaster CNN Turk quoted a senior Turkish diplomat as saying the countries have settled on terms for such a zone in their campaign against ISIS. “There’s no agreement on some kind of zone,” State...
At least 25 civilians have been killed on Tuesday by the U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front in Atmeh, a border town with Turkey north of Idlb province, activists said. Among the dead was a family of ten members, locals told Zaman al-Wasl. U.S.-led raids...
