Syrian President Bashar al-Assad signaled on Tuesday he expected more support from his top regional ally Iran in the wake of a nuclear deal that includes Western states that have backed the insurgency against him. Rebels fighting Assad expressed concern that the deal would expand...

Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal on Tuesday, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East. U.S. President Barack Obama hailed a step toward a "more hopeful world" and Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said it proved that...

 (By Lama Shammas; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- “it has not crossed my mind at all that I would one day be forced to sell my clothes and my kids’ clothes and toys to afford for living”, in those painful words, om Noura, a Syrian refugee woman started her story. Om...

By Hassan Hassan ( The National )- Consider two heart-wrenching scenes that recently emerged from Syria. The first one is of children lining up behind 25 soldiers in the historic city of Palmyra, pointing pistols at the soldiers’ heads. The second is of a child killed in his Aleppo home by a...

Iran and world powers have reached a historic deal under which Tehran will curb its nuclear program in exchange for the easing of economic sanctions, NBC News confirmed early Tuesday. Tehran has been negotiating with the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China for years, with diplomats...

Two senior Islamic State leaders were killed in an air strike in northeastern Syria on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The Observatory, which gathers its information from an activist network on the ground, identified the leaders as an Iraqi, Abu Osama...

Greece's leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a showdown with rebels in his own party on Tuesday furious at his capitulation to German demands for one of the most sweeping austerity packages ever demanded of a euro zone government. Just hours after a deal that saw Greece...

At least 600 army defectors from Bashar al-Assad's hometown of Qardaha were among a wanted list issued by Syrian regime and includes name of 21,000 defectors. The new wanted list that leaked to the media has included names of 21000 defectors who escaped fighting in the ranks of Syrian...

A new wanted list issued by Syrian regime army and leaked to the media has included names of 21000 defectors who escaped fighting in the ranks of Bashar al-Assad forces. Unconfirmed figures say around 100,000 soldiers and militants loyal to al-Assad have been killed in four-year armed...

Euro zone leaders made Greece surrender much of its sovereignty to outside supervision on Monday in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euro bailout to keep the near-bankrupt country in the single currency. Just hours after the deal was settled in marathon all-night...

U.S.-led forces stepped up air operations in Iraq against Islamic State positions, with 29 of 39 air strikes in the country on Sunday coming near the Anbar provincial capital Ramadi, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations said in a statement on Monday. There...

Houthi forces fired mortar rounds at an oil refinery in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Monday, starting a huge fire, witnesses and local officials said. The mortar barrage hit three full storage tanks, in an incident sure to add to the fuel crisis in the southern port....

 At least 40 people have been killed and dozens wounded in Syrian regime airstrikes on the northern town of al-Bab near Aleppo, activists said on Monday. The death toll of three-day bombing on al-Bab has reached 75 civilians, according to monitoring groups and activists. In the last few...

(By Ethar Abdulhaq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A leaked document from the archive of the Syrian regime showed that in 2015, the Syrian regime reported 686 defected soldiers and officers, most of them were of relatively high ranks, as almost 53% of them were sergeant and first sergeants, and...

A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help Syria's Kurds fight Islamic State has left the front lines and returned to Israel, citing the spread of Iranian influence in the war zones among her reasons. After eight months in which she was often incommunicado,...

(By Mohamed al-Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) “What did you say to the pilot and the rocket when your beautiful body was bleeding, has the satellite felt ashamed when it observed your small corpus and directed them to it?, in those words, Yusuf al-Khader, Fares’s younger brother...

Number of Syrian opposition figures agreed to form a monitoring committee that observes the work mechanism of the National Coalition and affiliated institutions in regard to financial status, legislation and documentation, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Sunday.

Euro zone leaders argued late into the night with near-bankrupt Greece at an emergency summit, demanding that Athens enact key reforms this week to restore trust before they will open talks on a financial rescue to keep it in the European currency area. Leftist Prime Minister...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Another leaked document from the National Defence forces in Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees, showed the humiliating treatment they receive from the regime’s intelligence. Within the series “National Defence Militia under spotlight”, Zaman al-Wasl is...

Malala Yousafzai, the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, celebrated her 18th birthday in Lebanon on Sunday by opening a school for Syrian refugee girls and called on world leaders to invest in "books not bullets". Malala became a symbol of defiance after she was shot on a...