(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb exploded in a rebel-held town of Daraa province Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens, activists said. The blast in Muzayrib town came two days after the humiliating defeat of Syrian regime forces in...

(Reuters) - Syria said on Wednesday it has approved a United Nations plan to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people in the war-torn country this year, but warned the only way to the end the crisis was to help Damascus fight terrorism. The strategic response plan...

(Reuters) - Two Israel i soldiers and a Spanish peacekeeper were killed on Wednesday in an exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel that has raised the threat of a full-blown conflict between the militant Islamist group and Israel. In the biggest escalation since a 2006 war,...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime air strikes on Wednesday killed 5 people, 2 children and 3 women, in the rebel-held city of Douma near Damascus, according the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Activists said Bashar al-Assad’s helicopters have...

(Al Arabiya News)- In his latest interview, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “voiced untruths with confidence,” the editor who spoke to him told NPR on Wednesday, while likening him to Hitler. Foreign Affairs managing editor Jonathan Tepperman revealed his thoughts about Assad during...

By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Wide differences and disagreement within the opposition’s delegation team for Moscow’s meeting appeared till even hours before the talks start, as they were not able to identify the...

(Reuters)- Jordan said Wednesday it was willing to hand over an Iraqi woman detained for her role in a 2005 suicide bombing in Amman if a Jordanian pilot captured by ISIS was released. "Jordan is ready to release prisoner Sajida al-Rishawi if the Jordanian pilot Lieutenant Muath al-Kasaesbeh...

Four Israeli soldiers have been injured in an attack on an army patrol near the border with Lebanon, the Israeli military says. A military vehicle was hit by an anti-tank missile in the disputed Shebaa Farms area. Hezbollah said it carried out the attack. The...

(Agencies)- Israel shells Lebanon after Hezbollah strike on Israeli army convoy. 4 Israeli soldiers wounded in attack near Lebanese border, Israel's army says; Hezbollah claims responsibility

(Todays Zaman)- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ruled out any possibility of accepting an autonomous Kurdish government in northern Syria similar to the one in northern Iraq, saying a government like this would cause major problems in the future. In his remarks...

(Daily News)- Ankara has no information on about 5,000 of the foreign fighters believed to be in Syria, a Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said, while updating the number of foreigners blacklisted from entering Turkey over suspected jihadist links....

(Reuters) - Kurdish fighters' expulsion of Islamic State forces from the Syrian town of Kobani helped stop the momentum of the Islamist group but is not a significant turning point in the overall campaign, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. The setback for...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court upheld three-year jail sentences on Tuesday for three prominent liberal activists, judicial sources said, after days of violence around the anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak. In 2013, a court handed down the...

(Reuters) - Japan has vowed to work with Jordan to secure the release of a Japanese journalist held by Islamic State militants after the killing last week of another Japanese captive, but it reiterated that it would not give in to terrorism. The hostage crisis has become...

By Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Rihab Allawi, an enthusiastic string revolutionary young lady, worked for the Syrian revolution since start, but her life ended in regime’s prisons in Feburary 2013 and was buried in a...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 6 people have been killed by Syrian regime due to the heavy artillery shelling on Talbiseh town in the northwest of Homs city, activists said on Tuesday. Activists say more than 30 people have been killed due the aerial...

President Barack Obama arrived in Riyadh on Tuesday at the head of a heavyweight delegation including senior U.S. officials to meet the new Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz. King Salman greeted Obama, who was accompanied by First Lady Michelle Obama, soon after Air Force One...

(Reuters) -  Syria  has raised fuel prices, cutting back on lavish subsidies, to quell a thriving black market that has led to anti-corruption protests in areas of strong government support. Worsening fuel and electricity shortages have sparked sometimes violent protests...

(Reuters) - Yemen's Houthi movement has freed the presidential chief of staff, whom it seized on Jan. 17 during a power struggle with then President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Houthi official Ali al-Quhoom and two government officials said on Tuesday. The seizure of the aide, Ahmed...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The National Coalition’s Embassy in Doha has announced officially launching the process of renewing expired Syrian passports starting 29th January 2015, restricted to Syrians in Qatar only as a first step. The Embassy...