A Syrian Kurdish militia said on Monday it was in near full control of the northeastern city of Hasaka, expanding its sway at the expense of the Damascus government in the wake of an Islamic State attack in the area. Full control of Hasaka - which was split between the Kurds and...

The U.N. Security Council on Monday backed Iran's nuclear agreement with world powers but the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards attacked the resolution, underlining powerful opposition to the deal. U.S. President Barack Obama, who also faces domestic political opposition to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Islam Army, key rebel group in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus, is seeking to meet the main food needs of the besieged people after three years of suffocating siege by Syrian regime, said in statement posted online. Zahran Alloush, Islam Army's commander, will form...

  A key rebel unit in Southern Front on Monday has recaptured a hill in eastern countryside of Daraa was seized by Syrian regime forces the day before, Zaman al-Wasl Arabic reported. The First Army, or al-Jaysh al-Awal, has recaptured Tel al-Sheikh Hussein and other military posts on...

n">Wall Street was little changed on Monday, as a better-than-expected start to corporate earnings season boosted investor confidence, but gains were curbed by a drop in commodities. The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 13.36 points, or 0.07 percent, to 18,099.81, the...

 One senior Tunisian Islamic State leader alongside five other foreign jihadists were killed in an air strike near the northeastern city of Hasaka, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Monday. The Observatory, which gathers its information from an activist network on the...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A former prisoner at the Syrian intelligence spoke about the unbelievable practices of the regime to suppress and torture prisoner, confirming thousands of testimonies of former prisoners and Caesar’s, the defected photographer at the Syrian regime, evidences and...

Athens (AFP) - Greek banks reopened Monday after a three-week shutdown imposed to stop a run on ATMs from crashing the financial system, but citizens woke up to widespread price hikes as part of a cash-for-reform deal with the country's creditors. The bank shutdown since June 29 is...

At least 27 people have been killed in a blast that rocked a gathering in Turkish border district Suruc of southeastern province of Sanliurfa, the interior ministry said. "The death toll is feared to rise," it said, adding that nearly 100 people were under treatment at Suruc and Sanliurfa state...

Unidentified gunmen have assassinated a Free Syrian Army commander in the northern countryside of Aleppo on Sunday, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Lieutenant Hussein Qentar, a former Syrian army officer who defected to join Syrian revolution, has been found dead near Anadan town. Qentar, who is...

 At least 25 Daesh militants and 15 Iraqi security personnel were killed Sunday in separate incidents across Iraq’s western Anbar province, according to Iraqi army and police sources. Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed al-Obaidi of the Iraqi army told Anadolu Agency that four Daesh militants –...

Syria's army said on Sunday it had stepped up air strikes and retaken villages in a new offensive on Islamist insurgents in areas close to President Bashar al Assad's ancestral homeland in the coastal province of Latakia. Aerial bombardment had intensified over the past 48 hours...

Syrian regime forces backed by Kurdish Democratic Union militia have tightened the siege on ISIS militants in the southern neighborhoods of Hasaka city northeast Syria, activists told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday. Activist  Mohamed al-Khalaf, based in Hasaka, said PYD fighters were...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday which marks the end of the holy Ramadan, is no longer an opportunity for Syrian children to eat sweets and play in Eid Squares on swings or going to funfairs and visiting gardens and animals’ parks.  Eid al-Fitr in central...

Prime Minister David Cameron wants Britain to do more to help the United States destroy Islamic State in Syria, he said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Britain conducts regular strikes against IS militants in Iraq but has so far limited its Syrian involvement to flying surveillance...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Dr. Jawad Abo Hatab responsible for the medical file in the Syrian National Coalition for revolutionary Forces and opposition has declined working in the Health committee as a result of what has been happening in the 10th vaccination campaign for Syrian children....

Syrian regime forces on Sunday have made gains in the eastern countryside of Daraa south Syria, taking control of three hills and district close to military airport, field source told Zaman al-Wasl. The fresh advances made by Bashar al-Assad forces near the Jordanian border rang the alarm bells...

Islamic State has kidnapped three African Christians in eastern Libya, the group said, publishing their passport pictures. The men come from Egypt, Nigeria and Ghana, Islamic State said in a statement on social media, without elaborating. The kidnapping took place in Noufliyah, an...

Mains water and electricity have returned to large parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo following a three-week cut after al Qaeda's local wing stopped water supplies to pressure the government, a group monitoring the war said on Saturday. Al Qaeda's Nusra Front stopped supplies to...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, has revived the bitterness of brutal massacres committed by Syrian regime and allied militias as people heading cemeteries to pay tribute to the victims of the 4-year-old war. Zaman al-Wasl's photos that were...