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(Interview by Abdullah Al Ghadawi ; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) T he fo under and fo rmer commander of the Free Syrian Army, still optimistic in his vision for the future of Syrian revolution that...
The United States still wants a negotiated political settlement in Syria that excludes President Bashar al-Assad, according to a senior U.S. envoy, but Washington's close allyGermany said talks with the Damascus government might still be necessary. As German Foreign...
(Reuters) - Iraq's government will make a budget payment to Kurdish authorities "within days", the finance minister said, playing down concerns that an oil export deal that helped thaw bilateral relations could collapse. Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday the...
(Reuters) - Gunmen wearing military uniforms stormed Tunisia's national museum on Wednesday, killing 17 foreign tourists and two Tunisians in one of the worst militant attacks in a country that had largely escaped the region's "Arab Spring" turmoil. Five Japanese as well as...
(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Spending of Syrian Opposition since forming the Syrian National Council (SNC) was shockingly high and lacking transparency, which was one essential principles of Syrian Revolution. Zaman al-Wasl publishes some financial documents...
The death toll in the world's most brutal conflicts climbed by more than 28 percent last year from 2013 with bloodshed in Syria worse than all others for the second year running, according to a study released on Wednesday. The Project for the Study of the 21st Century think...
(Reuters) - The United States lost contact with an unarmed Predator drone over Syria on Tuesday, U.S. officials said, stopping short of confirming the plane was taken down by Syrian air defenses, as reported by Syrian state media. "At this time, we have no information to...
(Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed victory in Israel's election on Tuesday after exit polls showed he had erased his center-left rivals' lead with a hard rightward shift that saw him disavow a commitment to negotiate a Palestinian state. Difficult coalition...
(Reuters) - A U.S. Air Force veteran has been charged with trying to provide support for the Islamic State militant group, U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday. A federal grand jury in New York City indicted Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh for attempting to provide material support to the...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Exclusive photos of mass torture obtained by Zaman al-Wasl showing, for the first time, women and children among 11,000 victims who were tortured to death in Syrian security chambers between (2011-2013)...
An annual security assessment presented to the U.S. Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, has excluded Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah from its list of terror threats to U.S. interests, despite both being consistently included as threats in...
Jerusalem (AFP) - Israelis voted Tuesday in an election expected to be a close-fought battle between the centre left and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who ruled out a Palestinian state in a last-ditch appeal to the right. The outcome of the race, in which opinion polls...
(Reporting by Abu Abdullah al-Hourani; Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Free Syrian Army arrested number of its fighters during a defection attempt in Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus to join regime forces last Saturday, rebel source said. Abu Abdul...
(Reuters)- The European Union and France denied any change in Western policy on Syria on Monday after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a political transition there. French Foreign...
Moscow invited the U.N. envoy for Syria to a second round of meetings scheduled for the beginning of April between some Syrian opposition figures and the Damascus government, Interfax reported on Monday citing a deputy foreign minister. The first round of Moscow talks were...
A remark by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that President Bashar al-Assad should be included in negotiations on a Syrian political transition provoked alarm and dismay on Monday among commentators close to Gulf Arab governments opposed to his rule. Saudi Arabia, the top oil...
The United States insisted on Monday it would never negotiate directly with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, edging away from comments made by Secretary of State John Kerry, and it cast doubt on any immediate prospects for third-party talks to resolve Syria’s civil war....
( Syrian Mirror News )- Addressing the people of Syria, the general commander of Ahrar al-Sham Islamic movement, Hashim al-Sheikh gave a speech to mark the fourth anniversary of the Syrian revolution. The speech, that came during a military parade by Ahrar...
At least 5 people were killed, one family, in chlorine gas bombs on eastern Syrian town of Sarmin in Idlib province late Monday, local activists reported. Medics told Zaman al-Wasl that 75 suffocation cases were recorded amid lack of Ambulatory...
