(Zaman Al Wasl)- Head of the National Coalition on Saturday called on the Syrian opposition’s members to avoid polarization and partisan loyalties in order to form a new government. Hadi al-Bahra, in statement to Zaman al-Wasl, said the new...
Bahrain's general and municipal election vote counting has started soon after polling stations across the country closed down their doors at 19:00 GMT, following a two-hour vote extension. Bahrain's state television broadcasted footage of election commission staffs counting the...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey is determined to strengthen its cooperation with the U.S. against ISIL to maintain regional peace and security. Erdogan and U.S. Vice President Biden held a...
(Reuters) - Tunisians vote on Sunday in a presidential election pitting an ex-official from the days of autocrat Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali against a rights activist appealing to the spirit of the 2011 revolt that ousted him. Beji Caid Essebsi, an 87-year-old former Ben Ali...
(Al Jazeera)- Heavy fighting has been reported in a suburb of Damascus as government forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad try to wrest the area from control of rebel fighters. The suburb of Jobar on Saturday was the scene of some of the heaviest fighting the rebels...
Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Mahmood Zahhar, the prominent figure in the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), considered the attack on the Knesset last week that resulted in killing 5 Israelis, a...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Air strikes by U.S.-led forces in Syria have killed 910 people, including 52 civilians, since the start of the campaign against Islamic State and other fighters two months ago, a group monitoring the conflict said on Saturday. The majority of...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Libya’s Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani told Zaman al-Wasl that the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya would be worse than the rule of Muammar Gaddafi. Al-Thani pointing out that the practices and abuses...
Turkey's eleventh President Abdullah Gul on Friday denied a story published by the Iranian Press TV, an English-language television network, on its news website. Gul called the remarks attributed to him in the article "fallacious" and "unreal." ...
Islamic State has consolidated its grip on oil supplies in Iraq and now presides over a sophisticated smuggling empire with illegal exports going to Turkey , Jordan and Iran, according to smugglers and Iraqi officials. Six months after it grabbed vast swaths of territory, the...
(The Huffington Post)- The Islamic State group released a new video on Friday in which British hostage John Cantlie reveals that he believes he too will soon be executed like his former cellmates. Cantlie opens the video with an introduction of himself as the British citizen...
FISHERS, Indiana (AP) — The death of a U.S. aid worker at the hands of Islamic State militants is "barbaric" and is not a true reflection of Islam, a cleric told hundreds of people who gathered Friday for the first of three memorial services honoring the slain man. Sheikh...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 21 soldiers of forces loyal to Basher al-Assad have been killed by radical Islamic State group near al-Shaer gas field east Homs, monitoring group said on Friday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 21 soldiers of...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and its allies have staged 30 air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq since Wednesday, the U.S. Central Command said on Friday. The 23 strikes in Iraq included six near Baiji that hit Islamic State...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighters of Syria’s al-Qaeda wing al-Nusra Front attacked on Friday two checkpoints belong to Hezbollah militia on the Lebanese border, leaving number of the Shi'ite militants killed and wounded, according to statement posted...
Jordanian authorities on Thursday arrested deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s branch in the kingdom Zaki Bani Arshid on the background of his earlier statements against the United Arab Emirates, a security source. “The security agencies arrested Bani Arshid over his...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden on Friday will become the latest in a parade of U.S. officials trying to push Turkey to step up its role in the international coalition's fight against Islamic State extremists. His visit follows weeks of public bickering between the two...
Tunisians are preparing to cast their ballots on Sunday to elect a new president in a vote billed as the country's first free and fair presidential election. Twenty-seven presidential candidates are vying for office in the weekend vote, the last phase of Tunisia's...
SOUSSE Tunisia (Reuters) - Tunisians were used to seeing Nidhal Selmi belting around a stadium, proudly sporting his country's red and white colors as a defender on the national football squad. So it was a shock when he appeared in a camouflage...
Reporting by Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Houses and properties of displaced people of Baba Amr neighborhood of war-torn city of Homs have been distributed on regime army officers, Local activists said....
