(Reuters) - A 12-year-old boy was shot dead in Cizre in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, the sixth person to be killed in the largely Kurdish town in the last three weeks, security sources said. Local witnesses said police teams were traveling through the area at the time he was...
(Reuters) - A Libyan warplane attacked a fishing trawler carrying gasoline to the port of Benghazi this week after the internationally recognized government suspected it of supplying Islamist militants, a military official said on Thursday. Libya's recognized government,...
BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- Lebanon’s cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Tammam Salam got underway Thursday with a regular agenda, but Hezbollah's ministers were expected to raise the issue of entry permits for Syrians from outside the schedule, ministerial sources told...
(Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday compared Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to the Islamist militants who killed 17 people in Paris last week, saying both had committed crimes against humanity. Davutoglu said Israel's bombardments of Gaza and...
(AFP)- Five Canadians have died fighting alongside ISIS militants in Syria, including a man who called for lone wolf attacks in Canada, local media reported Wednesday. The National Post said Ottawa-born John Maguire, who joined ISIS jihadis in Syria in January 2013, died...
(Anadolu Agency)- The Obama administration’s Syrian envoy discussed the planned train and equip mission for Syrian rebels during recent meetings in Istanbul, Central Command said Wednesday. Special Envoy for Syria Daniel Rubinstein met with Syrian opposition leaders...
A controversial French comedian, Dieudonne M'Bala, is to stand trial after writing a Facebook comment sympathizing with Amedy Coulibaly, French media reported Wednesday. Paris prosecutors began a criminal investigation on Monday after...
UN-backed peace talks with one of the two formal sides of Libya's warring factions started on Wednesday in Geneva in an effort to end the country's political and security crisis. "We are starting a process, it’s going to be a long process, it’s...
Google released a new version of its Translate app on Wednesday, that promises to be far more powerful, with features that include rapid real-time translation and the ability to translate images like street signs. While Mountain View points out that the new update is in a...
BEIRUT (AP)- Activists say Syrian rebels and local government officials have agreed to a truce in the last opposition-held area of the central city of Homs. Activist Beibars al-Tilawi said the 10-day truce beginning Thursday will allow more food to enter the al-Waar...
(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif held intensive talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear program on Wednesday, returning for an evening session before handing off to their deputies, officials said. Iran and six world...
(Reuters) - France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier is ready to be used to support military operations against Islamic State in Iraq , French President Francois Hollande told military personnel aboard the vessel on Wednesday. "Thanks to the Charles de Gaulle we will have...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many civil associations in the embattled Yarmouk refugee camp for Palestinian refugees in Damascus appealed on Wednesday to the United Nations, and the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO) and all humanitarian bodies in...
By Editor in-Chief; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- We welcome 2015 with hope and enthusiasm despite the prevailing feeling of pain and fear for Syrians and Syrian-Palestinians. Zaman al-Wasl has learnt a lot last year, it improved the management...
BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- The families of Islamist inmates in Roumieh Prison called for concerted efforts to pressure the authorities to grant them permission to visit their relatives following the weekend crackdown on the prisoners’ cells in the notorious Bloc B. “The...
U.S.-led forces launched 18 airstrikes against ISIS in Syria and Iraq in the past 24 hours, the U.S. military said Wednesday. Twelve of the strikes were in Iraq, mostly in northern areas where the militants have seized territory, and targeted tactical units, buildings...
UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) António Guterres said Wednesday that his agency needed $2.9 billion this year to support Syrian refugees and their host communities in Jordan. The announcement came during a press conference held by Guterres in Amman, during which...
(Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday Syrian opposition representatives would risk losing influence in peace efforts if they do not attend planned talks in Moscow. The refusal of prominent opposition figures to attend the Jan. 26-29 meeting, intended...
BEIRUT (The Daily Star)- Attorney General Charbel Abu Samra Wednesday issued a bench warrant against Al-Jazeera journalist Faisal Qassem after he failed to show up to two hearings in the lawsuit filed against him for criticizing the Lebanese Army, judicial sources told The Daily...
Muslim organizations in France have condemned the fresh publication of a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad on the new edition of Charlie Hebdo, describing it as "discrimination against Muslims". Their comments came after the French satirical...
