The main Syrian opposition group in exile says it's not attending low-level consultations taking place in Geneva and hosted by the U.N. envoy to the war-torn country. Syrian National Coalition chief Khaled Khoja says President Bashar Assad's government is responsible for Syria's conflict,...

A Moroccan F-16 warplane that is part of the Saudi-led force carrying out air strikes in Yemen has gone missing, Morocco's military said on Monday, and Iran-allied Houthi rebels and Saudi forces traded heavy fire across the border. The disappearance of the Moroccan jet and the intense...

Syrian air force has targeted aid stores of Syrian Red Crescent in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, leaving huge material damage, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said . The barrel-bomb attack on the aid store in al-Ferdous neighborhood was the second in two days targeting Red Crescent...

The Assad regime has placed its intelligence chief under house arrest after suspecting he was plotting a coup, in a sign that battlefield losses are setting off increasing paranoia in Damascus . Ali Mamlouk, the head of the country's National Security Bureau, and one of...

Jaysh al-Islam has killed 25 Syrian regime soldiers in a surprise attack, the main rebel group in Eastern Ghouta Suburbs said in statement Sunday. The Saudi-backed group launched a surprise attack late on Saturday on military posts in Deir Salman and al-Zamania villages east of Syrian capital,...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has designated his crown prince to attend a Gulf Arab summit with U.S. President Barack Obama, the state news agency, SPA, reported on Sunday. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir announced that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef would head the delegation...

(Reporting by Mamoon Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)  People in the Wa'er neighborhood in Homs city demanded an urgent help to tackle the hygiene and insect problem they started to suffer from. Wa'er neighborhood has been under siege for more than a year. Moreover, their suffer...

Zaman al-Wasl is publishing photos (Bellow) of 19 Syrian regime medics and officers who were involved with 6 others in  mass torture photos of 11,000 Syrian detainees. The atrocious photos were smuggled out of Syria by a former Syrian military police photographer mid 2013. According to an...

Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi who fled abroad during Libya's 2011 revolution and was extradited from Niger last year appeared in a Tripoli court on Sunday at the start of a trial on murder charges but the judge adjourned his case until July. Saadi, who had a brief career as a...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu crossed briefly into Syria on Sunday to visit the tomb of a revered Ottoman figure situated a few hundred meters from the border, in a move likely to anger the authorities in Damascus. The tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman...

Syrian troops backed by heavy air strikes have edged closer to a hospital in northwestern Syria where dozens of Syrian soldiers and loyalist fighters have been holed up for the past two weeks, the army said on Sunday. An army source told Reuters that its troops were now several...

(The Daily Star)- The Lebanese Army will not “slip” into engaging in any war inside the Syrian area of Qalamoun, where Hezbollah and the Syrian Army are currently fighting jihadis, Commander Gen. Jean Kahwagi said. According to a report by the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat newspaper’s Sunday...

Iranian-allied Houthi fighters in Yemen accepted on Sunday a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by adversary Saudi Arabia but warned they would respond to any violations. Neighboring Saudi Arabia had said on Friday that the ceasefire could begin on Tuesday if the Houthi...

North Korea said on Saturday it had successfully test-fired a ballistic missile from a submarine, a step that would mark significant progress in the secretive state's military capabilities. It could pose a new threat to South Korea, Japan and the United States, which have...

(By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Dr. Nabil Sha’ath, the Chief negotiator and a member of the Central Committee of the Palestinian Fatah movement has disclosed to Zaman al-Wasl that all attempts made by the Palestinian Authority to save Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees...

An Egyptian court sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in jail without parole on Saturday in the retrial of a corruption case, although the trio is unlikely to go to jail again. Mubarak, who ruled Egypt with an iron fist for 30 years, and his...

The Saudi-led coalition said on Saturday it had hit Yemen with 130 air strikes over the previous 24 hours, and a senior UN official said some attacks violated international law. The coalition of Arab states had called on civilians to evacuate Saada, the city in northern Yemen...

Syrian government forces advanced Saturday towards the rebel-held town of Jisr al-Shughur, where around 250 army soldiers and their families are trapped in a hospital building, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government troops were now within two...

Prime Minister David Cameron sealed a surprise election win by persuading Britons to choose the security of modestly rising living standards over an implausible pretender many feared could become the puppet of Scottish nationalists. Blending the promise of "the good life"...

(Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Abdul Salam Mustafa, representative of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Europe, explained in his talk to Zaman al-Wasl that People Protection Units (YPG) is the main Kurdish party that fights the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria,...