(Reuters) - Syria's al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front and other Sunni Muslim militants fought during the night to capture two Shi'ite villages in the country's north but were repelled, activists on both sides of the war and a monitoring group said on Friday. The insurgents were...

(Reuters) - Prominent Syrian opposition figure Mouaz Al Khatib said on Friday he had turned down an invitation to a Moscow meeting with Syrian government officials, in a further blow to Russian efforts to find a solution to the Syrian conflict. "We decided to decline ... this is because...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Two newborn babies passed away on Friday due to the snow storm sweeping Syria and to the lack of foods and medicines in rebel-held city of Douma, Syria Human Rights Committee reported. The twins Abdul Rahman and Fatema have died of bad weather condition as the...

(Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday. Speaking after gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on...

(Reuters) - Israel 's top military officer said on Thursday he was disappointed rather than worried about a Palestinian move to join the International Criminal Court, calling it unnecessary because Israel could investigate complaints itself. Lieutenant General Benjamin Gantz,...

The French satirical magazine bloody attacks that happened Wednesday and killed 12 people, including the editor of the weekly magazine and two police officers, sparked anger and fury in France and across the world Thursday. Politicians and people around the world held...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned Thursday the killing of "thousands" of people in a Nigerian town by Boko Haram militants. "Terror attacks in which innocent people are brutally killed cannot be tolerated regardless of religion, civilization, and...

The Eiffel Tower switched off its lights Thursday at 8 p.m. local time (1900GMT) as a tribute to the victims of the attack at the Parisian offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The lights on the 324-meter iconic Eiffel Tower...

Militants from Yemen's Shiite Houthi movement on Thursday kidnapped seven teachers and two students from a religious school in Sanaa's northern Arhab district. The militants kidnapped the teachers and students as part of a search operation the group is conducting in the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria’s al-Qaeda wing al-Nusra Front on Thursday has carried the fiercest attack on Shiite predominantly villages of Nubul and al-Zahra’a in Aleppo countryside, taking control of 50% of towns, activists and media...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Shariah court of rebel-held Aleppo on Wednesday urged men who are between 18 and 35 year-old to not enter government-held areas of war-torn city to avoid military conscription. Bashar al-Assad regime announced last week general...

   Beirut (The Daily Star)- Lebanon should drop its new measures requiring Syrians to obtain permits to enter the country, Speaker Nabih said Thursday, according to the Syrian ambassador. Ambassador Ali Abdel-Karim Ali quoted Berri as telling him that "there should not be...

(Reuters) - The Syrian government said on Thursday the deadly attack on a magazine in Paris showed the danger of the kind of Islamist militancy espoused by insurgent groups fighting in the Syrian civil war. A government statement blamed "short-sighted European policies" for such...

By Ithar Abdul Haq; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The sixth issue of English version of DABIQ, The Islamic State’s official magazine, has identified many facts and points of views, which were before vague and unbiased, maybe to be able to...

One of the three suspects in the attack on the headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday has surrendered, according to various French media reports on Thursday. The attack in Paris killed 12 people and French police had...

Turkey will “never close its door to incomers” the country’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has said. Davutoglu was speaking after a meeting in Ankara with Thorbjorn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, on Wednesday. Prime Ministry sources said the pair...

(Reuters) - U.S.-led air strikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have damaged or destroyed 3,222 targets since August, including 58 tanks, 184 Humvees, 673 fighting positions and 980 buildings or barracks, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. Army Colonel Steve...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Aid agencies dismissed on Wednesday the idea of relocating hundreds of thousands of storm-hit Syrian refugees across the Middle East, citing the large number of refugees, a shortage of funding and a lack of authority. As blizzards, rain and...

By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- The newly-elected president of Syrian National Coalition, Khaled Khoja, would face huge challenges, as he would manage a torn apart coalition that has many conflicts among its members,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities on Thursday have moved more than 40 Syrian families from Atemh refugee camp to makeshift settlement on its land as the snow storm is forecast to last several days. Zaman al-Wasl reporter said the Turkish ambulances...