(Zaman Al Wasl)- Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi issued a decree on Wednesday allowing him to repatriate foreign prisoners in Egypt, Reuters said. The move that could enable the release of an Al Jazeera journalist now serving a seven-year...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Cars carrying food and aid supplies entered a southern Damascus neighborhood on Wednesday thanks to a local ceasefire agreement between pro-government officials and insurgents, a monitoring group said on Wednesday. Such truces have been...
ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran denied on Wednesday a monitoring group's report that an Iranian nuclear scientist had been killed in Syria last week, according to the official IRNA news agency. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday five nuclear...
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian authorities detained a prominent Damascus-based writer and dissident Wednesday as he was trying to leave the country, his political party said. Louay Hussein was taken into custody at the Syria-Lebanon border as he was heading to Spain to visit his family,...
(Reuters)- A Canadian-born woman who emigrated to Israel and served in its military has joined Kurdish militants fighting Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) insurgents in northern Syria, Israel Radio reported on Monday. The Canadian...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The recent leaks of Zaman al-Wasl for the brutal and criminal practices of Air Forces Intelligence are ringing the alarm bells inside Bashar al-Assad’s close security circle, well-informed source says. The latest leak...
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of 865 people since the U.S-led coalition started its strikes on Syria on September23 until last night. Victims as following: -...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The decision of Syrian opposition’s government to cut salaries of its workers into half, has excluded the ministers and senior officials, source told Zaman al-Wasl. The Cut Policy adopted recently by the interim...
By Zaman staff; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Ahmad Kassab Masalmeh, a Jihadi icon, was assassinated last Monday in mysterious circumstances in Horan, according to local activists. Masalmeh, known as Abo Muhammed Harasta, had...
(Reuters) - About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts in Syria and Iraq , and many are without food or shelter as winter starts, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. Amin Awad, UNHCR's director for the Middle...
BAGHDAD — The vengeance that Iraq’s Shiite militias mete out as they fight the Islamic State group can be just as brutal as that of their sworn sectarian enemies. In a grisly video recently posted online, a Shiite fighter shouts the name of a revered imam in victory as he poses...
By Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- After 3 months of his designation as Iraq’s Prime Minister shows no changes or difference from Nouri al-Maliki, the ex-Prime Minister, especially in his relationship with Iran....
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al-Qaeda Syria’s wing al-Nusra Front on Wednesday celebrated its latest victory in Idlib province against West-backed rebel groups . Al-Nusra Front posted online photos showing the spoils taken from...
(Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed eight people including six soldiers on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji where government forces are trying to reassert control to break an Islamic State siege of the country's largest refinery nearby. The bomber targeted a crowd...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian Alawite-dominated province of Tartus, in massive funeral, has buried 17 troops of 150 killed last week by Islamic State militant group east Homs, activists said on Tuesday. The coastal city, which considered as a main...
Turkish government is offering a range of educational services to more than 150,000 Syrian refugee children, the Turkish Minister of National Education said on Monday. “I urge the whole world to be sensitive to the needs of Syrian refugee children...
(Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday accused his Islamist Hamas rivals of carrying out a series of bombings against officials loyal to him in Gaza last week, in a move sure to harm already floundering unity efforts. A series of small explosions targeted...
(Reuters) - Syrian Kurds backed by fighters from northern Iraq have gained ground towards breaking the siege of the Syrian border town of Kobani but are drawing heavy fire from Islamic State insurgents and have yet to win back control. Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga, or "those who...
(Reuters) - The United Nations peace envoy to Syria said on Tuesday that Syrian officials had given him positive signals over a U.N. proposal for a local truce in the northern city of Aleppo, a main battleground in Syria's three-year-old war. Speaking in a televised...
(Reuters) - Gains by the Shi'ite Houthi rebel movement in Yemen are ringing alarm bells in Saudi Arabia, concerned for what it means for its vulnerable southern border, already the conduit for a constant flow of illicit activity. The Houthis control much of the territory...
