Fatah Army on Tuesday has pressed more advances on the eastern front of Ariha town in Idlib province, taking control of two Syrian army posts, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. The alliance of Islamist groups, including al-Qaeda wing the Nusra Front, has taken control of Buthaina and Biout...

A Lebanese hostage appeared in a video released Tuesday by the Nusra Front said captives will “pay the price” for any upcoming battle in Syria’s Qalamoun. (The Daily Star)

Al-Omari brigades, rebel group active in southern Syria, on Tuesday declared general mobilization to repel Syrian army's major offensive to recapture Lajat region, field sources said. Syrian regime forces, who lost swaths of territories last April, have massed troops near rebel-held town of...

UN envoy Staffan de Mistura is to meet delegates of the Syrian government and some rebel groups, as well as regional powers such as Turkey and Iran. Islamist militant groups such as Islamic State (IS) and al-Nusra Front have not been invited, despite the power they hold on the ground. The...

The Employees of Syrian opposition’s government are still waiting their paychecks for the last four months, source said as the Western-backed group faces funds decline. $ 1.4 million is wages' monthly amount for more than 400 employees in and out Syria. Ahmed To’meh, Prime Minister of...

(Reuters) - Hillary Clinton is willing to testify once before a special congressional panel investigating the 2012 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, not twice as the panel's chairman has asked, her lawyer said on Monday. The attack has hounded former...

(Reuters) - France and Saudi Arabia believe that any future deal between Iran and six major powers must ensure not to destabilise the region further and threaten Iran's neighbours, the two countries said ahead of a summit in Riyadh on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia invited French...

(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Mazen Abdullah Mobarak, a Syrian child ran away with his family to Jordan, and live as a refugee in the city of Mafraq, suffers of acute Leukaemia, but his family cannot afford for his treatment. Mazen’s condition has been discovered when he...

An Israeli group that collects testimonies from combat soldiers has published accounts from last year's Gaza war alleging indiscriminate fire killed Palestinian civilians. Breaking The Silence said on Monday that its accounts, gathered from dozens of unnamed soldiers, show a "change in the...

Two UN peacekeepers have been wounded when mortar rounds fired from Syria hit their base in the Israeli-held sector of the Golan Heights, according to the Israeli army spokesperson. Israel public radio said the two were lightly wounded in Monday's incident. "Mortar shells hit the Golan in Ein...

(AP) — Syrian state media says the central bank is pumping up to $200 million into the market to help boost the sagging Syrian pound. Three government newspapers — Baath, Thawra and Tishrin — carry reports Monday about the plan. The Syrian pound has plummeted against the dollar, spiking at...

  Islamist militants launched brazen attacks on Hezbollah and Syrian army positions in the western Qalamoun mountain range along Lebanon's border at dawn Monday, leaving a number of fighters dead and wounded, security sources said. One security source said that the Nusra Front and allied...

The Arab alliance waging an air campaign against Houthi militias in Yemen is considering calling a truce to allow humanitarian relief, al-Arabiya news channel quoted Monday the Saudi foreign minister as saying. The newly appointed minister Adel al-Jubeir warned Yemen's Houthis against...

A senior Syrian army officer was wounded in a suicide bombing in a central Damascus district on Monday, a monitoring group said, though the military denied the report. "A major general who heads the munitions and supply division of the Syrian army was injured and one of his companions killed...

(Reuters) - Police on horseback charged hundreds of ethnic Ethiopian citizens in central Tel Aviv on Sunday as an anti-racism protest descended into one of the most violent demonstrations in Israel's commercial capital in years. The protesters, Israeli Jews of Ethiopian...

(Reuters) - Nearly 5,800 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya and 10 bodies were recovered in less than 48 hours, Italy's coast guard said, in one of the biggest rescue operations this year. Two weeks after nearly 900 boat people drowned in the worst...

Asian stocks bounced off lows on Monday and the Australian dollar pared early losses as weak China factory activity reinforced views that Beijing will roll out fresh support measures soon for the world's second-largest economy. Spreadbetters expected the equity markets to open...

Floyd Mayweather Jr cemented his place among the pantheon of boxing greats by improving to 48-0 with a unanimous decision over Manny Pacquiao on Saturday in a fight that lived up to its immense hype and price tag. Mayweather weathered an early assault from the Filipino southpaw...

Zaman al-Wasl, exclusively, has obtained a detailed list includes names of 2861 militants who operate under National Defense Units, pro-Bashar al-Assad militia active in Qalamoun region near Damascus. The list has disclosed the structure and mechanism of NDF militia in Qalamoun. It includes...

The Islamic State group Sunday claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack outside a popular Baghdad restaurant that killed 15 people, including four policemen and a media figure. Saturday's attack, one of the deadliest in the Iraqi capital this year, took place in Karrada, a district packed...