Syrian forces killed six people in an alleged airstrike in southern Daraa province’s Daraa Balad district, an opposition group said Wednesday. The General Commission of the Syrian Revolution said in a statement that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- West-backed opposition leader promised Syrian refugees of Atmeh camps on the Turkish border to solve urgent demands they asked, promising to meet with camps officials soon in Turkish border town of Reyhanlı, according to Zaman al-Wasl. Khaled Khoja, in...

(Reuters) - Al Qaeda in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, saying it was ordered by the Islamist militant group's leadership for insulting the Prophet Mohammad, according to a video posted on YouTube. Gunmen killed a...

(Reuters)- Al-Qaeda's Syria wing, Nusra Front, shot dead a woman in the northwest of the country after accusing her of adultery, an activist group said Wednesday, saying it showed such execution-style killings were not confined to the militant ISIS. ISIS, which split from...

Oil income of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is at its lowest in the past six months due to the U.S-led international coalition’s airstrikes, Iraqi parliament members have said Tuesday. “ ISIL will be in a bad financial situation as its current...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Falling oil revenues and intensifying fighting across  Libya  mean the humanitarian situation is worsening and basic public services may collapse, aid agencies said. Three years after the overthrow and killing of Muammar Gaddafi, two...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Leader of West-backed rebel group Syria Revolutionaries Front, says that his last defeat by al-Qaeda wing in Syria two months ago in Idlib province will not eliminate the presence of Free Syrian Army (FSA). Jamal...

(Reuters) - Yemeni authorities have questioned a member of the Baha'i faith suspected of contacts with  Israel  and charged him with seeking to establish a base for the community in the predominantly Muslim country, state news agency Saba reported. But the accused' s wife and...

(Reuters) - Charlie Hebdo will publish a front page showing a caricature of the Prophet Mohammad holding a sign saying "Je suis Charlie" in its first edition since Islamist gunmen attacked the satirical newspaper. With demand surging for the edition due on Wednesday, the weekly...

  Translation by Yusra Ahmed (EQTSAD)- Esam Khori, a writer, political Analyst and Geo-demographic expert, Coordinator of the Centre of Social structural development, detailed to Eqtsad his views of possibility to found a Kurdish country or Entity in future, and their...

(Reuters) - A Saudi judge has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to an additional five years in jail, his wife said, after he refused to show remorse or recognize the court that handed down his original 10-year term for sedition. Walid Abu al-Khair, founder and director of...

(Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that countries behind the fall in global oil prices would regret their decision and warned that  Saudi Arabia  and Kuwait would suffer alongside Iran from the price drop. "Those that have planned to...

(Reuters) - Security forces have found the body of an Egyptian police officer kidnapped by gunmen this week in the Sinai Peninsula, home to Islamist militants seeking to topple the government, the army spokesman said on Tuesday. The officer was snatched on Sunday in the border town of...

(Reuters) - Egypt's high court on Tuesday overturned the only remaining conviction against Hosni Mubarak, ordering a retrial in the embezzlement case and opening the way for the ousted former president's possible release. Mubarak, 86, was sentenced to three years in prison in May for...

(Reuters) - When protests erupted in Cairo in 2011, liberal activist Hassan El-Erian quickly mobilized demonstrations in his hometown of Zagazig, risking arrest, or worse, to push for democracy.  Inspired by the toppling of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Arab Spring uprisings...

n">(Reuters) - The Twitter and YouTube accounts for the U.S. military command that oversees operations in the Middle East were hacked on Monday by people claiming to be sympathetic toward the Islamic State militant group being targeted in American bombing raids. "American soldiers, we...

(Reuters) -  Israel  shut down three local Islamist groups on Monday, accusing them of stoking tensions at a contested shrine in occupied East Jerusalem that has seen increased visits by Jews. Al Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem is Islam's third-holiest site and the...

Reuters) - Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Ballon d'Or award for the second year running and the third overall on Monday after a prolific, trophy-filled year with Real Madrid. The Portuguese forward won 37.66 percent of the vote to finish well ahead of Lionel Messi, his bitter rival, who...

Washington (AFP)- A group declaring sympathy for the Islamic State jihadist group hacked US Central Command's Twitter account and YouTube page Monday, posting internal military documents online. The self-declared Cybercaliphate "is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military...

By Al Hussein Al Shishakli (Zaman Al Wasl- Exclusive)- Zaman al-Wasl newspaper has obtained new photos of mass torture by Syrian intelligence services linked to war crime report made last year by a team of internationally recognized war crimes prosecutors and forensic...