A day after taking control of a major army base in Daraa province, Southern Front rebels on Wednesday announced a new offensive to capture a military airport near Sweida city, the main stronghold of Syria's Druze minority. Al-Tha'leh airport is rebels' second target after the takeover of Liwa...

ISIS militants blew up a pipeline feeding natural gas from eastern Syria to the suburbs of the capital Damascus early Wednesday morning, an activist group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British based activist group, said ISIS blew up the pipeline near the T-4 military airport...

Syrian air strikes on ISIS-held town in the northeastern province of Hasaka killed at least 14 civilians, activists said Wednesday as battles continue between the radical group and Kurdish militias. Syrian regime's vacuum missiles targeted the northern neighborhood of al-Shadadi town, killing...

Thousands of people crossed from Syria into Turkey on Wednesday to flee a battle pitting Islamist insurgents against Kurdish and opposition forces for the Syrian border town of Tel Abyad. A Reuters photographer at the scene said many of them were women and children and they had entered Turkey...

A Tunisian court has annulled a 2011 decree confiscating the assets of ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his inner circle after an appeal from the Ben Ali family, infuriating the government. In the months following Ben Ali's flight to Saudi Arabia after the revolution...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, called on rebel groups operating in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near Damascus to form Ghouta's version of Fatah Army, like what Nusra did in Idlib province and Qalamoun region. Forming 'Fatah Army in Ghouta' as Nusra urged in statement posted online on...

 Hikmat al-Hijri, Head of Druze sect in Syria has responded to Basher al-Assad’s call to recruit youth in army, by issuing a statement demanding all youth, who have not join the army yet, to go to the military conscription centres and join the Syrian Army. The statement titled “National...

Islam Army, key rebel group in eastern Ghouta district near Damascus, said in statement posted online it has kidnapped a senior regime official early Wednesday, asserting the abductee is not the Justice minister as media outlets circulated. Najm al-Ahmed, Syrian regime's Justice minister,...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A virtual reality film which guides the viewer through the daily life of a young girl in a Syrian refugee camp aims to engage the public with the plight of some of the world's most vulnerable people, according to its co-creator. The eight-minute film...

Three U.S. government defense contractors caught in a blast at a Bulgarian military range were testing arms for use in a U.S.-led mission to equip Syrian opposition fighters battling Islamic State, a U.S. military source said on Tuesday. One American contractor was killed and two more were...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up on Wednesday just steps away from the ancient Egyptian temple of Karnak in Luxor, a southern city visited by millions of tourists every year, security and health officials said. Shortly after the explosion, police exchanged fire with and...

Syrian regime forces and allied militias have burned hundreds of acres planted with grains and olives in al-Houleh region in Homs province, activists told Zaman al-Wasl Tuesday. For the third year, Bashar al-Assad's forces have been targeting wheat and olive corps in harvesting season, in step...

(The Daily Star)- ISIS militants attacked four Hezbollah posts on the outskirts of the northeastern border town of Ras Baalbek Tuesday in a failed bid to capture two hills, sparking intense clashes that left at least 22 people dead, a security source said. A separate security source told The...

  Commander of Jaish al-Islam's Chiefs said fighters of the key rebel group in Syria will open all battlefronts against regime army and allied militias, according to to his official Twitter account, hour after the strategic gains in Daraa and eastern Qalamoun. Islam Army announced on...

A court sentenced 11 men to death on Tuesday for their part in Egypt's worst violence at a soccer stadium, in which more than 70 fans were killed in 2012. Many of the dead were crushed when panicked fans tried to escape from the Port Said stadium after a post-match pitch invasion...

Rebel fighters captured a major base from the Syrian army in the south of the country on Tuesday, rebels and a monitoring group said, a setback for President Bashar al-Assad reflecting the mounting pressure on him after recent losses elsewhere. Syrian officials could not immediately be reached...

Jaysh al-Islam announced on Tuesday an offensive on ISIS in the eastern Qalamoun region, seeking to open a supply route that links to the Syrian north, according to statement posted online. Activists said that fighters of Jaish al-Islam, or Islam Army, have seized control of al-Afaei mountain...

Syrian rebels on Tuesday have seized full control of Liwa 52, or the 52nd Brigade, and Battalion 14, powerful military posts, near al-Herak town in southern Daraa province, activists said. In sudden attack, Southern Front rebels have also made rapid advances in al-Mleiha town, taking control of...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Details about the battle of Palmyra in which the Islamic State (ISIS) controlled the city on May 20 are published for the first time. Zaman al-Wasl met A. Solaiman, a military employees who was at his work when the Islamic state controlled Palmyra...

Syrian air strikes on rebel-held Aleppo city killed at least 12 people on Tuesday, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The fierce aerial campaign on the liberated neighborhoods of  the northern city killed 4 people in al-Shaaar neighborhood, 5 people, including a woman, in al-Ansari, and 3 others...