Purported supporters of the hardline Islamic State group hacked the website of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog on Wednesday and threatened its Syrian director who has documented abuses on all sides of Syria's war. The Britain-based Observatory, which tracks the...

Syrian rebels on Wednesday have taken control of al-Hamidiya village in the southern countryside of Aleppo province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Rebels, also, took control of al-Qarea checkpoint near strategic Khanaser town after fierce fighting with Syrian regime forces and allied Shiite...

At least 45 Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group militants have died after eating a poisoned iftar meal, British newspaper the Daily Mail reported, It is thought that a group of 145 ISIS militants had sat together to break their fast, but only 100 survived the meal, the report added....

The United States and its allies conducted 31 air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Monday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement released early Wednesday. In Syria, the strikes were focused near Tal Abyad, where seven bomber, fighter and...

A drone strike as part of a U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State militants killed a senior figure from the hardline group in its Syrian stronghold Raqqa city, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The strike killed an Uzbek leader of the group involved in security as he sat in a...

( Syria Direct )- More than 50 regime barrel-bomb and conventional airstrikes pummeled rebel-held villages in Daraa province Tuesday after the launch of a renewed Southern Storm rebel offensive to wrest the provincial capital from regime control one day before, reported the pro-opposition “We...

 Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) is planning to build a new refugee camp in the southern town of Kilis, in order to accommodate for the ongoing influx of Syrian refugees, reports Turkish news site Hürriyet Daily. “Such a refugee inflow scares us. That would...

Israel's Shin Bet security agency says it has arrested six Bedouins for establishing a cell supportive of the ISIS. The agency said Monday that four of those arrested were teachers and tried to indoctrinate students at their schools with the extremist group's ideas. It said they intended to...

ISIS militants on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in the Yemeni capital on Tuesday, which left one person dead and five others wounded. According to Agence France-Presse, a brief statement posted on jihadist websites said ISIS had “taken revenge”...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A new Saudi diplomatic document was published among thousands in WikiLeaks, showed minutes of the meeting between basher al-Assad and Kofi Annan, the First United Nation’s Envoy to Syria to resolve the Syrian crisis. The letter was coded and showed that Basher...

Five Egyptian civilians were killed on Wednesday when a mortar round hit a house in a North Sinai village where the army is battling jihadist insurgents, security officials said. It was not immediately clear who fired the projectile, which also wounded four people. Both soldiers and militants...

Syrian rebels in control of the spring that provides most of Damascus’s drinking water have threatened to shut off pipelines to the capital if the regime and Hezbollah continue their offensive in Zabadani. Pro-regime daily Al-Akhbar highlighted the danger on Tuesday, writing that “feelings of...

Iran and major powers gave themselves at least until Friday to negotiate an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, but a source from one of the powers said on Tuesday they had to wrap up in the next 48 hours. "We are continuing to negotiate for the next couple of days," EU...

Two deadly car bombs hit the capital Sanaa and a southern city in Yemen on Tuesday, state news agency Saba reported, a day after air strike and clashes killed almost 200 people nationwide. Islamic State in Yemen claimed responsibility in a statement posted online for the Sanaa...

( Syria Direct )- The Victory Army and Syrian regime representative exchanged prisoners Tuesday in the Idlib countryside according to several opposition and regime sources. Conflicting accounts have emerged of who was released in Ariha, site of one of the last remaining regime bases in Idlib...

Euro zone members have given Greece until the end of the week to come up with a proposal for sweeping reforms in return for loans that will keep the country from crashing out of Europe's currency bloc and into economic ruin. "The stark reality is that we have only five days left...

The Islamic State group (IS) has reportedly killed a woman journalist and blown up an ancient Christian church in Mosul Soha Ahmad Radi, a Christian and the editor of the local newspaper Nineveh, was killed a few days after she was taken from her home in the east of Mosul, the Iraqi...

Turkey's army said on Tuesday it had detained almost 800 people trying to cross illegally from Syria, including three suspected Islamic State militants, after bolstering security in border areas near where the radical Islamists hold ground. The military said 768 people had been...

The United States said on Tuesday it was falling far behind plans to build a Syrian opposition force to battle Islamic State, disclosing that just 60 fighters were in training after U.S. vetting thinned the number of recruits. The U.S. military launched its program in May to...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Tens of displaced families from ancient city of Palmyra have arrived Gaziantep, Turkish border city, fleeing ISIS-captured city and to escape daily barrel bombs attacks by Syrian regime, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. People who managed to escape Palmyra...