Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl Leaks)- Defected officers in the air forces of Syrian regime revealed that Iranian inspectors and experts had permeated the Syrian air forces and airports since August 2011, only 6 months following the start of the Syrian revolution.  A...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Staffan De Mistura, the U.N. Syria envoy, to meet with representatives of Syria’s moderate rebels and with the head of the Syrian National Coalition on June 4, source told Zaman al-Wasl. De Mistura, who is presiding over the Geneva peace consultations, is intensifying efforts...

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian went on trial on espionage charges behind closed doors in Tehran on Tuesday, 10 months after he was arrested at his home and imprisoned, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. His wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and a woman described as a photojournalist...

Isis expected to carry out 'more violence, more advances, more attacks' as one year anniversary of Islamic State declaration approaches As one year anniversary of the so-called “caliphate” declared by Isis approaches, the group will be seeking to make itself appear “stronger and more defiant...

Air raid sirens sounded on Tuesday night after at least one rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel, police said. There were no reports of damage or injuries. The remnants of one rocket were found near the port city of Ashdod, about 20 km north of the Gaza Strip, an...

 Syria's deputy foreign minister says air support provided by any country to rebels fighting against ISIS extremists would be considered an "aggression." Faisal Mekdad's comments on Tuesday were in response to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who said Turkey and the U.S. have...

Seven members of a family were killed in an overnight strike by Saudi-led warplanes on a border village in northern Yemen, residents said, as heavy clashes erupted across the frontier after Houthi fire killed one Saudi citizen. In southern Yemen, the Saudi-led airforce launched nearly 20...

Syrian regime's helicopters on Tuesday have dropped 6 barrel bombs on the embattled Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in Damascus, killing one person,  Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. Meanwhile, new skirmishes erupted between Islamist rebels led by the Nusra Front, who control the vast...

The Syrian government's antiquities chief said on Tuesday the historical city of Palmyra had been unharmed since ISIS seized it from state control last week. Maamoun Abdulkarim said was still afraid the jihadi group would blow up ancient ruins at Palmyra including tombs and the Temple of Bel,...

(By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Mona Ghanem, deputy head of the Building the Syrian State (BSS) party, accused Orient TV Channel of fabricating her words, which did nothing more than exacerbating sectarian congestion among Syrians. Ghanem admitted that Orient TV’s record...

Britain and Russia remain divided over the role of Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian conflict, despite a new pledge to find a solution to the war and counter the rise of Daesh. British Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on Monday following Cameron’s...

Iraqi forces have launched a counter-offensive to retake areas of Anbar province recently captured by fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Al Jazeera's Imran Khan, reporting from Baghdad, said on Tuesday that the first city likely to face an assault from the Iraqi...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Local activists said Abduction and killing have returned to Homs city as three bodies of two boys and a girl were found last week with signs of slaughtering and torture after being kidnapped. Activists reported that bodies of two cousin boys,...

At least 15 people were killed in Syrian regime air strikes around Palmyra, the U.K.-based Syrian Network for Human Rights said in a statement on Monday. The strikes close to the UNESCO World Heritage site in Homs province injured dozens more, the rights group said. On Sunday, the...

The United States and its allies carried out 10 airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and 25 strikes in Iraq since Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday. Kurdish fighters, supported by the coalition, were forcing militants to cede territory in northern Syria at an increasing rate, U.S. Brigadier...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  On 25th May three years ago, the Syrian regime and its militias committed a massacre against people in the town of Holeh near Homs, in which 180 people were killed according to UN figures, majority of them children, women and elderly. About 108 people were...

Al Qaeda's Syria wing, the Nusra Front, backed by Islamist factions seized control of an ISIS-held town southwest Syria near the Occupied Golan Heights, a monitoring group said Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Nusra Front and Islamic factions have seize the town of...

Two members of a banned Bangladeshi radical group have been arrested for trying to recruit young Muslims to fight with ISIS, police said Monday. Aminul Islam Baig, 40, and Shakib bin Kamal, 30, were both arrested on Sunday night during raids at two addresses in Dhaka in which officers also...

 A Tunisian soldier opened fire on colleagues at a military base in the capital Tunis on Monday, killing an officer and 6 others and wounding 15 more before being shot dead himself, Tunisian authorities said. It was not immediately clear what had triggered the shooting at the Bouchoucha...

A spokesman for the Iraqi government says U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter has been given "incorrect information" following his criticism of its security forces over the fall of Ramadi to ISIS. Saad al-Hadithi said Monday that the Iraqi government was surprised by Carter saying Iraqi forces...