Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc has said a renewed effort will be made to stop the entry of terrorists into Turkey via the Syrian border without affecting the humanitarian passages for refugees. Addressing the media after a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Ankara on...

The Washington Post stepped up a campaign for the release of its jailed reporter in Iran, Jason Rezaian, on Wednesday, appealing to the U.N. Human Rights Council to help secure his release after a year of what it called "arbitrary" detention. The newspaper filed a petition with...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  Zaman al-Wasl has obtained a new list of 958 Syrian army officers who were killed during the Syrian conflict. The list includes the date of death with circumstances behind. There was 70 officers among the killed members ranged between the highest rank,...

The United States and its allies conducted 15 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria on Tuesday, and another 15 strikes targeting the militant group in Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday. Most of the strikes in Syria, 10, were concentrated near Al Hasakah, where they...

What may be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday took two checkpoints in Zabadani city after fierce clashes with Syrian regime army and its allied Shiite militia Hezbollah, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Activist Anas al-Qalamouni said rebels had seized control of al-Moura and al-Karazat checkpoints as well...

An Israeli court jailed two brothers from a far-right Jewish group on Wednesday for an arson attack on a Jerusalem school that had been a rare symbol of co-existence in the riven city. Shlomo and Nahman Twito were sentenced to 2 years and 2 and 1/2 years in prison respectively...

Kurdish militants claimed responsibility for the assassination on Wednesday of two Turkish police officers in what they said was retaliation for a suspected Islamic State suicide bombing which killed 32 mostly young students. The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said in a statement...

The Iran nuclear pact could eventually help thousands of Iranian-Americans who have struggled with red tape, shuttered accounts, and even criminal prosecution to conduct bank transactions, although relief seems unlikely anytime soon. As Washington tightened sanctions on nearly...

At least 18 people, including 5 children and 3 women, have lost their lives in 4 barrel bomb attacks on rebel-held Aleppo, a monitoring groups said on Wednesday.  The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 18 civilians have been killed in Qasr al Bareji neighborhood by Syrian regime...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Siraj Eddin Allon, A Syrian young man has been in Ataturk Airport in Istanbul for 4 months with other 7 Syrian refugees waiting to deportation to the country they had come from. Allon explained his marathon trip between Turkey to Nouakchott in Mauritania as he kept...

An Austrian court sentenced a Chechen to five years in jail on terror charges after he traveled to Syria in 2013, the latest and one of the toughest verdicts in a string of Islamic State-related cases in Austria. The 30-year-old Chechen, identified as Magomed Z., was convicted of...

The United Nations envoy for Syria has voiced deep concern about civilians in the city of Zabadani, the focus of an offensive by the Syrian military and Lebanon's Hezbollah aimed at wresting control of the area from insurgents. Citing local sources in a statement late on...

Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu rejected accusations Turkey had in the past tacitly supported Islamic State militants operating from Syria and had unwittingly opened the door to a suicide bombing that killed at least 32 people. The blast on Monday tore through a group of...

Three Italian ships rescued 414 migrants from four boats in the Mediterranean sea on Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said, with four newborns and one young child among those saved. About 150,000 migrants, many fleeing poverty and war in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, came...

Three Spanish freelance journalists have gone missing in Syria and are believed to have been kidnapped, Spanish media said on Tuesday. The three men - Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez y Angel Sastre - were working on an investigative report in the northern city of Aleppo,...

A conservative Islamist rebel group said on Tuesday it would protect Syria's minorities, pressing a campaign in Western media to address concerns about one of the most powerful insurgent forces fighting President Bashar al-Assad. Ahrar al-Sham is an ultra orthodox Salafist group...

The United States said on Tuesday it was very disturbed by anti-U.S. hostility voiced by Iran's top leader after a nuclear deal, as both countries' top diplomats sought to calm opposition to the accord from political hardliners at home. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said a...

North Korea is not interested in an Iran-like dialogue with the United States to give up its nuclear capabilities, the isolated country's foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. The statement said North Korea's nuclear program was an "essential deterrence" against U.S....

Asian shares gained on Tuesday, taking heart from Nasdaq's fresh high, while gold prices took back some lost ground after plunging more than 4 percent to five-year lows in the previous session. Financial spreadbetters predicted Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE to open about 12 points...